Middle East

(CNN) - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney left Friday for a one-week trip to Afghanistan, Israel, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. Romney senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom told CNN Romney had meetings scheduled with President Hamid Karzai of …

Past and likely future Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney arrived Sunday in Afghanistan on a weeklong trip to the frontlines of the U.S. war zone and to the Middle East. Senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said the former Massachusetts Gover…

Arguments over defense-spending requirements are ultimately disputes over the political conditions that will obtain in future Military conflicts. Secretary Gates’s new proposal to cut the defense Budget is a fresh example of this axiom. Th…

The Navy has made it official: Captain Owner Honors has been stripped of command aboard the Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise for his role in those raunchy videos that became public last week. The Enterprise will maintain its Deployment schedule to …

US Navy Captain Owen Honors has been permanently removed as commander of the USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier over making Controversial videos when he served as the carrier's executive officer four years ago. Honors is being replaced as the carrier…

Jerry Brown was inaugurated as California’s new Governor on Monday, replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger .  In his Speech lasting a little over 15 minutes, Brown called upon California lawmakers of both parties to “rise above ideology …

src="https://i.huffpost.com/gen/211216/Reuters-LOGO.jpg">NEW YORK: Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the Budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday. President Barack Obama…

During his inaugural address he spoke of the hard choices - including painful Spending Cuts - that must be made to get the state out of the Financial Crisis it is in but also that he hoped to restore the people’s faith in governm…