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Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boall had no interaction with special operations command, said Adm. William McRaven.

New York — White House officials will have a new way to travel when the V-22 Osprey officially becomes part of the presidential helicopter fleet in 2013.

American drones launched an airstrike against a suspected terror targets along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Wednesday, further inflaming tensions between Washington and Islamabad over the controversial counterterrorism tactic. 

Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) are pushing legislation that would roll back a recent White House decision to expand drone strikes against terrorist targets around the world. 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday attacked a Republican proposal reinforcing the right of military chaplains to steer clear of gay marriage ceremonies.

Robert Gates, who was defense secretary when President Obama ordered the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, said the decision to deploy Navy SEALs to kill bin Laden was a risky decision and a “courageous” call.

Gates said in an interview with host Charlie Rose on “CBS This Morning” Wednesday that he preferred using a missile attack to take out bin Laden's compound, which he described as “the least risky way to take him out.”

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak is traveling to the Pentagon this week to meet with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday, where they are expected to hammer out an agreement on increased U.S. funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile system.

Israeli media reported Barak was on his way to Washington on Tuesday, and said the Obama administration was planning to announce a $680 million package for new Iron Dome missile batteries, citing Israeli security sources.

A team of United Nations observers assigned to monitor the fractured peace process in Syria came under attack on Tuesday when their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, according to recent news reports. 

NATO on Tuesday confirmed Pakistan's participation in next week's summit in Chicago, U.S. Ambassador Ivo Daalder said via Twitter.

Last week, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen threatened to exclude Pakistan from the summit on the future of its neighbor, Afghanistan, if Pakistan did not reopen supply routes that have been closed since U.S. troops accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Monday that the supply routes could be reopened now that Pakistan had “made a point.”

“Now we can move on,” she told reporters in Islamabad, according to The Associated Press.

Tensions between Pakistan and the United States remain high, however. Pakistan has asked President Obama to apologize for last year's incident, but the U.S. president has so far refused to do so.

NATO has failed to investigate — or even acknowledge — the deaths of dozens of civilians in questionable air strikes during the 2011 campaign in Libya, Human Rights Watch asserted in a new report Monday.

The New York-based group examined in detail eight air strikes that killed 72 civilians, including 20 women and 24 children. It concludes that the apparent absence of a clear military target in seven of the strikes raises concerns of possible laws-of-war violations that should be investigated, and calls for victims' families to be compensated.