Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are calling on President Obama to stop plans for additional troop withdrawals from Afghanistan. 

In an op-ed in The Washington Post on Thursday, the trio of senators write that additional troop reductions are "shortsighted" and "guarantee failure." 

Instead, the senators write there should be a "pause" in troop drawdowns starting in September, leaving at least 68,000 troops there. 

The Pentagon’s request for two new rounds of BRAC in 2013 and 2015 has met stiff opposition in Congress.

The Security Council Wednesday backed U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s plan to end the violence in Syria.

Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), who is locked in a member-versus-member primary battle with Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), introduced legislation Tuesday that would allow the Obama administration to give more missile defense systems to Israel.

Berman’s bill would allow the United States to provide more Iron Dome missile defense systems to Israel if the Israeli government requested it. Israel currently has three Iron Dome systems deployed, and Berman said more are needed to secure the country’s borders.

Many PTSD diagnoses were reversed at the base where the accused killer of 16 Afghan civilians was stationed.

The United States must end its use of aerial drones to track and kill suspected terrorists in Pakistan if Washington wants to repair its fraying alliance with Islamabad, members of that country's parliament said Wednesday.

The lawmakers outlined their criteria for continued cooperation with the United States, which included the end of controversial air strikes by unmanned drones, according to reports in The Washington Post and The New York Times.

The unemployment rate for post-Sept. 11 veterans increased to 12.1 percent last year, up from 11.5 percent in 2010, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

The 2011 unemployment rate for all veterans, however, declined to 8.3 percent from 8.7 percent in 2010, according to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday suggested that an Israeli attack on Iran could involve the United States in a military conflict with Tehran, but cautioned that the possibility should not weaken resolve to halt Iran’s nuclear program.

“There’s no doubt that if Israel does attack Iran, this is not going to be easy, it’s not going to be surgical, and again the U.S. could find itself implicated or involved in it,” said King on CNN’s "Starting Point."

"Perhaps we should believe them," Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) said about Iran's recent threats.