Army

The Pentagon's top officer for special operations in Afghanistan has been tapped as the new chief of the Army's vaunted Green Berets, according to a Defense Department statement issued Friday. 

“They're trying to swindle and hoodwink you," Obama said of colleges that engage in deceptive practices.

Military investigators are still piecing together the circumstances that led to the fatal crash of an Army Blackhawk helicopter in Afghanistan on Thursday. 

The Obama administration has called the photos “reprehensible” and condemned them, and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized Wednesday.

The Defense Department said it “strongly rejects” the behavior of troops posing with dead suicide bombers in photos released Wednesday.

Lawmakers in both parties have expressed outrage over the allegations and promised congressional investigations.

As many as 11 Secret Service agents and nine military personnel were involved in the Colombia prostitution scandal. 

Claims by a top House lawmaker that sleeper agents of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group could launch an attack in the United States were overstated, according to American intelligence and law enforcement officials. 

The international coalition collaborating on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter will remain intact, despite the tremendous fiscal pressures facing those countries. 

A new seaport being built by the Philippine government in the Spratly islands could become the Pentagon's military outpost in the hotly contested South China Sea, according to news reports.