Martin Dempsey

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army sergeant has been charged with secretly photographing and videotaping at least a dozen women at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including in a bathroom. The Army said Wednesday that Sgt. 1st Class Michael...

May 5 Air Force Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, is arrested on suspicion of drunkenly grabbing a woman in an Arlington, Va., parking lot. At the time, he led the Air Force's sexual assault prevention program. His trial is set for July 18 in Arlington...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday condemned Russia's delivery of advanced antiship missiles to Syria and its buildup of warships in the eastern Mediterranean, arguing that the Kremlin's escalating support for its longtime ally in...

WASHINGTON — Minutes after Greg Hicks learned that the perimeter of the U.S. mission in Benghazi had been breached by men with guns, he punched a cellphone number to reach Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, his immediate boss, who was at the scene....

WASHINGTON -- A hearing on the deadly September 2012 attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya, began with sharp exchanges Wednesday morning when the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform accused the Republican...

WASHINGTON — Partisan politics loomed over a House hearing Wednesday  on the deadly September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound  in Benghazi, Libya, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over the meaning of testimony from three witnesses...

President Barack Obama painted himself into a corner last summer when he said Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against rebel forces would be a "red line for us." Now there's evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria,...

With the Iraq War behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as...

WASHINGTON — The White House said for the first time that there was evidence Syria had used chemical weapons in its civil war, but administration officials called for a broader United Nations investigation and edged away from declaring Damascus...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates -- U.S. intelligence has determined that embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad deployed chemical weapons to subdue the rebellion in his country, Obama administration officials said Thursday, a disclosure that could move...

JERUSALEM — Israel's accusation that Syria used chemical weapons against rebels raises the prospect that Damascus crossed what President Obama has termed a "red line," but appears unlikely to overcome deep resistance of the U.S. and its allies to...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is sending about 200 troops to Jordan, the vanguard of a potential U.S. military force of 20,000 or more that could be deployed if the Obama administration decides to intervene in Syria to secure chemical weapons arsenals...