Al-Qaida, increasingly tamped down in Iraq, is establishing cells in other countries as Osama bin Laden's organization uses Pakistan's tribal region to train for attacks in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Africa and the United States, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday. ...more

February 6, 2008

The U.S. missile strike that killed a top al-Qaida commander slightly more than a mile from a Pakistani military base shows how entrenched Islamic militants are in the lawless tribal regions, where extremists have launched increasingly bold attacks. ...more

February 2, 2008

William J. Crowe Jr., 82, the Navy admiral who held the nation's top military job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the Cold War neared its end, died of cardiac arrest Thursday at suburban Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland. ...more

October 19, 2007

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is troubled by the Iraq war. He thinks it has become such a consuming focus of U.S. attention that it may be overstretching the military and distracting the nation from other threats. ...more

October 1, 2007