Iran's efforts to prop up Assad's regime are generating concern inside the Pentagon.

A top U.S. general on Wednesday said he "misspoke" when he told reporters American special forces units were conducting clandestine surveillance operations inside North Korea. 

The Defense Department had previously said war funds would be exempt from the $500 billion in automatic cuts.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that Iran has “a right” to enrich 20 percent uranium, throwing cold water on ongoing negotiations between Tehran and six world powers over Iran’s nuclear program.

Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran’s 20 percent enriched uranium has “nothing to do with producing a bomb” in an interview from Tehran with France 24.

The Obama administration laid out its concerns Wednesday afternoon with the House’s intelligence authorization bill.

But you’d better have security clearance if you want to find out exactly what those concerns are.

The Obama administration’s statement of administration policy for the intelligence authorization bill, which says the White House does not oppose the overall legislation, expresses the fact that the administration has problems with the bill.

But it's tough to figure out what the problems are, because they are classified.

The Pentagon should freeze any additional troops withdrawals from Afghanistan after the initial tranche of American troops come home this summer, a top U.S. commander suggested Wednesday. 

The Obama administration has adopted a policy of rejecting all House appropriations bills until Republicans abandon their budget.

A top U.S. general on Wednesday sought to sooth Russia's concerns over the U.S. nuclear stockpile and a new American missile shield being set up in Eastern Europe.

"We do not view the Russians ... as our enemies," Gen. Bob Kehler, head of Strategic Command, said during a speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in Washington.

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Moscow has emerged again as a key roadblock to any possible military action to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and end the growing violence in the country.