The death toll has risen to at least 180 after yesterday’s suicide bombing in Baghdad, the worst attack since February, when US and Iraqi forces began their security crackdown. Today, Defense ...

In his farewell address to NATO in Brussels today, outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates had harsh words for alliance members that rely on the US instead of doing their own defense spending, at a ...

WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday raised the possibility of cutting U.S. troop levels in Iraq to 100,000 by the end of next year, well beyond the cuts President Bush has approved.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged Sunday that the U.S. is participating in preliminary talks with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan, The New York Times reports. The talks are in ...

At outgoing defense secretary Robert Gates' Pentagon farewell ceremony, President Obama praised him as one if the best defense secretaries this nation has seen. He honored Gates with the Medal of ...

Former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates received the Patriot Award at the culminating event of the week-long Medal of Honor Celebration in Chattanooga on Saturday. Ruby Rayner is the politics ...