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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks to reporters about the Defense Department's sexual assault prevention and response program, Thursday, May 1, 2014, at the Pentagon. Hagel said sexual assaults are a threat to both women and men in uniform. And he says the Pentagon must do more to fight a culture that discourages victims from reporting assault. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Hagel presses NATO allies for more defense spending

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Turner asks why Obama has ignored Ukraine’s urgent needs list

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

NATO official: Russia now an adversary

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a media meeting organized by the Russian People's Front in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin has mocked the Internet as a CIA project and pledged to protect Russia&#8217;s interest in the online industry. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

NATO official: Russia now an adversary

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, speaks to reporters in Chattanooga on Feb. 15, 2014. (Associated Press)

Senate GOP bill pushes Obama to get tougher on Putin, Russia

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on Putin's dominance in world affairs by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MAY: A new Russian riddle

By Clifford D. May

Kerry: Russia ‘accelerating’ Ukraine crisis

By LARA JAKES and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Foreign security guards stand near the main gate of Cure International Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 24, 2014. The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan says three American doctors have been killed at by an Afghan security guard who opened fire at a hospital in Kabul. The shooting at Cure International Hospital in western Kabul was the latest attack on foreign civilians in the Afghan capital this year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

5 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Russian officers gesticulate to the driver of Russian tank T-72B at the Ostryakovo railway station not far from Simferopol, Crimea, Monday, March 31, 2014. Russian tanks T-72B will be stationed on former Ukrainian military bases. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia plans new military exercises near border with Ukraine

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

To Russia With Love Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: Obama’s foreign-policy ‘flexibility’ fantasy shows weakness

By James A. Lyons

Illustration on the future of NATO by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

WEINROD: Back to the future for NATO

By W. Bruce Weinrod

An US F16 fighter jet takes off from a Romanian air base in Campia Turzii, Romania, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Some 450 U.S. and Romanian troops are taking part in the Dacian Viper 2014 joint military exercise in Transylvania, northwestern Romania flying U.S. F-16 fighter jets of the U.S. 31st Fighter Wing alongside Romanian Mig-21 Lancers.The weeklong exercise, the fourth of its kind, was planned before Russia&#8217;s recent annexation of Crimea, according to officials.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Flying blind: Russia blocks U.S. from treaty-approved spy flights

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

US sending nonlethal aid to Ukraine military

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Soldiers of the Ukrainian Army react as they sit a top combat vehicles as they are blocked by people on their way to the town of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who it says are being stirred up by paid operatives from Russia and have seized numerous government facilities in at least nine eastern cities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Pro-Russian insurgents seize Ukrainian armored vehicles

Associated Press

Two A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft pilots fly in formation during a training exercise March 16, 2010, at Moody Air Force, Ga. Members of the 74th Fighter Squadron performed surge operations to push its support function to the limit and simulate pilots' wartime flying rates. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Benjamin Wiseman) **FILE**

Removal of military gear limits options for U.S., NATO in Ukraine

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addresses the media after an NATO Ambassadors Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. NATO says it's reinforcing its military presence on eastern border on sea, land and in the air. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Multinational naval fleet to depart Germany for Baltic Sea within days

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove gestures during an interview with the Associated Press in Paris, Wednesday April 9, 2014, as he talks about his mission to formulate a plan to help protect and reassure NATO members nearest Russia. NATO&#8217;s top military commander in Europe, Breedlove is tasked with drafting countermoves to the perceived Russian military threat against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

NATO set to consider proposals for beefing up military presence in Eastern Europe

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

EU agrees to work more closely with NATO

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press

Afghan Election Soldiers Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CHELLANEY: Lingering too long in Afghanistan

By Brahma Chellaney

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, right, walk along a corridor in the foreign ministry in Paris, Monday, March 31, 2014. Lavrov is in Paris for talks about Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Russia tells NATO chief to quit the ‘Cold War-era rhetoric’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times