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Egypt's crackdown on U.S. groups finds support at home

The scenario is familiar to Egyptian political activists: Authorities harass pro-democracy groups, raid their offices, ban employees from travel and threaten criminal charges to smear them as foreign agents. | 01/31/12 17:46:00 By - Hannah Allam and Nancy A. Youssef

Pentagon call for U.S. base closures a political move, lawmakers say

Legislators on Capitol Hill vowed Friday to resist a recommendation from the Pentagon to close unneeded military bases around the country as a way to save money, saying communities could not afford it and defense budget cuts could be made elsewhere. | 01/27/12 18:54:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Sean Cockerham

Defense budget plan doesn't cut as deeply as Pentagon says

Pentagon officials unveiled the outlines Thursday of what they called a pared-down defense budget, but their request increases baseline spending beyond the projected end of the Afghan war, even as they plan to reduce ground forces. | 01/26/12 19:47:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Navy SEALs rescue 2 held captive in Somalia

American commandos dropped into Somalia on Tuesday night to rescue two aid workers who were held hostage, including an American, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. | 01/25/12 11:24:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

French troop deaths spark worry over Afghan training mission

The killings of four French troops Friday by an Afghan soldier they were training has renewed concerns — a decade into the training mission — that Afghans are growing increasingly disdainful of the U.S.-led coalition forces ostensibly there to help them and are striking back. | 01/20/12 18:37:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Ali Safi

Report on shooting spree finds deep mistrust between U.S., Afghan forces

An Air Force investigation into a shooting spree by an Afghan colonel that left nine U.S. military trainers dead last year found high levels of hostility between Afghan and American forces and major Afghan support for the shooter. | 01/17/12 18:56:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Video of Marines urinating on bodies no surprise, Afghans say

The Pentagon scrambled Thursday to assure Afghans that it would aggressively investigate a video that shows U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of three Afghans, while Afghans' reaction varied from outrage to resignation that the video merely reflected behavior that they think is typical of American troops. | 01/12/12 18:55:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Some worry 'new' U.S. military focus on Asia is a muddle

The Obama administration pledge to shift American military strategy toward Asia overlooks a key fact: The United States never really dropped its focus on the region. But the current budget proposal might cut big-ticket items needed to increase its presence in Asia and counter China. | 01/12/12 15:22:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Tom Lasseter

U.S. probes video of marines urinating on dead Afghans

The Marine Corps said Wednesday that it was investigating the authenticity of a video that appears to show four uniformed Marines urinating on dead Afghans, potentially the latest example of U.S. troops treating those killed or captured on the battlefield as trophies. | 01/11/12 18:48:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Intelligence report: Taliban still hope to rule Afghanistan

A new top-secret U.S. intelligence assessment warns that Taliban leaders haven't abandoned their goal of reclaiming power and reimposing harsh Islamic rule on Afghanistan, raising doubts about the success of any peace deal that the Obama administration tries to broker between Kabul and the insurgents. | 01/11/12 16:25:00 By - Jonathan S. Landay and Nancy A. Youssef

Obama outlines leaner military but gives few specifics

Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq, winds down its ground war in Afghanistan and prepares to make do with a leaner military budget, it faces an array of future threats and must still be prepared to fight several conflicts simultaneously, the Pentagon said Thursday in unveiling its latest defense strategy. | 01/05/12 19:03:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Iranian oil threat is mostly bluster, say observers

Amid an escalating war of words between the United States and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. and European officials expressed confidence that there was no imminent threat to the passageway through which some 40 percent of the world's seaborne oil travels daily. | 12/28/11 17:09:00 By - Nancy A. Youssef and Jonathan S. Landay

Bradley Manning hearing ends with no clear sign of harm done to U.S.

After seven days of testimony and the submission of more than 300,000 pages of documents, a key question remains unanswered in the case against Army Pfc. Bradley Manning: How exactly did his leak of hundreds of thousands of secret documents, logs and at least one video — which he passed to WikiLeaks — directly harm U.S. national security? | 12/22/11 18:44:50 By - Nancy A. Youssef

Bradley Manning makes court appearance in WikiLeaks case

A weeklong hearing to determine whether Army Pfc. Bradley Manning should face charges of illegally releasing thousands of classified U.S. military documents opened Friday with the defense questioning the presiding officer's objectivity. | 12/16/11 11:35:49 By - Nancy A. Youssef

U.S., Pakistan offer different versions of attack on border post

NATO officials said Afghan and U.S. troops operating inside Afghanistan early Saturday had been fired on from the Pakistani side of the border and had requested close air support to help defend themselves. But Pakistan's chief military spokesman said he did not believe that there had been any fire directed at the Americans from Pakistan and said he did not believe the U.S. attack could have been inadvertent. | 11/27/11 17:14:00 By - Saeed Shah and Nancy A. Youssef

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