CEO Bob Stevens said it was “absolutely wrong” to conclude Lockheed’s actions were taken “to achieve some political objectives."

"I plan to stick with him in 2012," said the former secretary of State, who also backed Obama in 2008.

The first in a slew of Army units designed to expand American military presence across the globe is heading Africa Command, tasked with forging and increasing military cooperation with U.S. allies on the continent, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter. 

The Army is staring headlong into a "new era" as the war in Afghanistan grinds to a finish, handing military leaders a prime "opportunity" to mold the service into the dominant ground fighting force for decades, according to a top Defense Department official. 

Attorneys defending the man accused of masterminding the U.S.S. Cole attack want documents on a U.S. drone strike in 2002 that killed another suspected of planning the attack.

Reuters reported that attorneys for Abd al Rahim al Nashiri — who is on trial at Guantanamo for his role in the 2000 U.S.S. Cole bombing in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors — asked for the documents related to the 2002 CIA drone strike during a pre-trial hearing Wednesday.

Nashiri’s attorneys want information on the drone attack in Yemen that killed Qaed Salim Sinan al Harithi, a suspected al Qaeda leader targeted because he was reportedly believed to have organized the Cole attack.

Russia is right that Syria is awash with shoulder-fired missiles, the Obama administration said Wednesday — but they're Russian SA-7s, not U.S.-made Stingers.

The United States is providing “no Stingers of any kind to Syria, nor will we,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said during her daily briefing. “All the images we have seen [show missiles] of a Soviet or Warsaw-Pact vintage.”

Her remarks come after Russia's top general on Wednesday accused the United States of providing Stingers and other shoulder-fired missiles to the Syrian opposition against President Bashar Assad. The administration maintains that its aid to the opposition is entirely non-lethal, prompting the ire of Republicans who want the United States to arm the rebels.

“We have information that the rebels fighting the Syrian army have shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles of several states, including Stingers made in the United States,”Russian chief of staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov told Russia’s Interfax news agency. “We need to still find out who has delivered them.”

Tensions between the U.S. and Afghan governments over the nation's border with Pakistan simmered Wednesday after the State Department reaffirmed that it views the 1,640 mile “Durand Line” as an internationally recognized boundary. Read more...

American intelligence officials have been denied access to a Tunisian national suspected of participating in the deadly Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya, according to one Senate Republican. 

Russia’s top general said Wednesday that the Syrian opposition has received shoulder-launched missiles, including stinger missiles made in the United States.

Russian chief of staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said the missiles were a “serious matter," although he added that he did not know where the weapons had come from.

Russia, an arms supplier to Syria, has backed Syrian President Bashar Assad throughout the conflict, and Moscow has stymied U.S. efforts in the U.N. Security Council to take stronger measures against Assad.