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  April 3, 2013, 2:57 pm

Anti-missile systems sent to Guam to counter North Korean threat

By Carlo Muñoz

A battery of American anti-missile systems are en route to Guam as Washington continues to position its forces against a possible conflict with North Korea. 

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  April 1, 2013, 10:26 am

US deploys F-22 stealth fighters to South Korea

By Jeremy Herb

The U.S. military deployed F-22 stealth fighters to South Korea on Sunday amid heightened tensions with North Korea.

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  March 29, 2013, 11:50 am

Study puts total price tag for Iraq, Afghanistan wars at more than $4 trillion

By Jeremy Herb

Harvard professor Linda Bilmes said the war expenses "will dominate future federal budgets for decades to come."

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  March 29, 2013, 7:28 am

Report: North Korea readies rockets after US military drills

By Justin Sink

North Korea put its missile units on standby on Friday and threatened to "settle accounts" with the United States. 

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  March 28, 2013, 10:19 am

Pentagon cuts back furlough days for civilian workforce

By Jeremy Herb

The number of furlough days will be reduced from 22 to 14, thanks to legislation passed by Congress.

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  March 27, 2013, 4:43 pm

Al Qaeda in Africa targeting Tunisia, says top US general

By Carlo Muñoz

Al Qaeda's dangerous Western African cell is looking to gain a foothold in the Northern African country of Tunisia, in an attempt to expand on gains made by the terror cell in Mali and elsewhere on the continent, a top U.S. general said Tuesday. 

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  March 27, 2013, 11:43 am

North Korea cuts off military hotline with South

By Jeremy Herb

North Korea said Wednesday it was shuttering a military hotline with South Korea as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate amid repeated threats from Pyongyang.

North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency said South Korea had been informed Wednesday that the North would no longer use the direct line of communication, after two others were also shut off in recent weeks.

"Under the situation where a war may break out at any moment, there is no need to keep north-south military communications which were laid between the militaries of both sides," KCNA quoted a military spokesman as saying, according to Reuters.

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  March 26, 2013, 5:06 pm

Report: Bin Laden 'shooter' booted from SEAL Team Six

By Carlo Muñoz

The Navy SEAL who reportedly killed al Qaeda chieftain Osama bin Laden was dismissed from the Pentagon's elite SEAL Team 6 shortly after the infamous operation and was not actually the sailor who fired the fatal shots during the May 2011 raid. 

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  March 26, 2013, 2:09 pm

Pentagon: North Korean threats will 'achieve nothing'

By Carlo Muñoz

North Korea's recent posturing and threats of military action will "achieve nothing" except to further inflame tensions on the peninsula and increasingly isolate the country's regime within the international community, according to the Pentagon. 

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  March 22, 2013, 12:13 pm

Report: US drone strike kills four in Pakistan

By Carlo Muñoz

An American drone strike late Thursday killed four individuals in western Pakistan's restive tribal regions, an area known as a safe haven for a number of Pakistani-based terror groups, according to recent reports. 

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