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The lead American negotiator in talks over a long-term security agreement with Afghanistan has privately warned the Obama administration that its efforts to persuade President Hamid Karzai to sign the document on the U.S. timetable are likely to fail.

There has been a sharp increase in the suicide rate among the youngest male veterans, and a smaller but still significant jump among women who served in the military.

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved and sent to the Senate floor four civilian nominations yesterday: Jessica Wright to be undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness; Jo Ann Rooney to be undersecretary of the Navy; Jamie Morin to be director of cost assessment and program evaluation; and Frank Klotz to be undersecretary of energy for nuclear security.

The military wants to resume training of Iraqi commandos in Jordan that wouldn't require American troops to enter Iraq, a move opposed by the Obama administration and its toughest critics in Congress.

Reports of sexual assault decreased at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, but rose at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

According to a new classified Pentagon report, Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA surveillance practices have put U.S. troops at risk.

DARPA shows Congress DoD can still do science: Congressional tech showcase kicks off on Capitol Hill.

Tracking Americans who have returned from Syria has become one of the FBI's highest counterterrorism priorities.

With the numbers of wounded, ill and injured Soldiers steadily declining over the last 14 months to its lowest levels since 2007, the Warrior Transition Command will restructure over the next nine months.

Army National Guard bids farewell to the venerable aircraft after two decades of service: C-23 Sherpa.

The military training exercise Combined Resolve 2013 brought service members from throughout Europe and some units from the U.S. to the Hohenfels Training Area in Germany.

Growing up in Los Angeles, Chief Master Sgt. Jose A. Barraza followed in the footsteps of his parents and became involved in gangs. After multiple run-ins with the law and near-death experiences, he decided to change his life and enlisted in the Air Force. Now the 3rd Wing command chief at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, he uses the game of chess to help tell his story.

Lt. Col. Chris Bennett, Airlift and Tanker Requirements chief at Headquarters Air Force Reservist Directorate, Air Staff, Pentagon, ran 20 half marathons in 2013.

The image of a bandaged solider giving a salute from his hospital bed went viral. Learn where he is now.

Game of Thrones returns April 6.

Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) has a drinking schedule and you'd best not disrupt it. True Detective premieres Sunday at 9.

See Patton Oswalt on the latest episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Have you ever slept beneath the bones of a T-Rex? What about next to the Declaration of Independence? It turns out that museum sleepovers are actually a thing!

Six apps that'll help you stick to your New Year's resolutions.

If we could marry a film trailer, we would marry this one for The Monkey King. Someone bring this film to the South Sound!