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Armored vehicles remain at the site of a blast targeting the NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 30, 2015. It comes a week after an audacious attack on the nation's parliament, which highlighted the ability of insurgents, who have been fighting to overthrow the Kabul government for almost 14 years, to enter the highly fortified capital to stage deadly attacks. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossasini)

Afghani forces inadequate to fight Taliban: Pentagon

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, June 28, 2015. The rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart shortly after liftoff. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

McCain: SpaceX explosion no reason to ease Russian rocket ban

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

Grooms from Iraq's Shiite militia and their brides attend a mass wedding ceremony at a club in Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 15, 2015. About 125 couples got married at the ceremony Monday sponsored by the government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Shiite militia, U.S. troops sharing Iraqi air base

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Tim Constantine Afternoon News June 23, 2015

Afternoon News with Tim Constantine (June 23, 2015)

By Tim Constantine

In this April 23, 2015, file photo, President Obama pauses while speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, where he took full responsibility for deaths of American, Italian hostages, and expressed apologies. The accidental killing of two hostages in a U.S. counterterrorism operation against al Qaeda has raised pressure on the White House to revise the nation’s oft-criticized strategy for dealing with abducted Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Duncan Hunter criticizes Obama’s proposed change in hostage policy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Daily Briefing Kelly Riddell June 23, 2015

Exclusive Washington Times Daily Briefing (June 23, 2015)

In this Dec. 6, 2012, photo provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, soldiers assigned to 6th Engineer Battalion use snow shoes during Arctic Light Individual Training on the Bulldog Trail in sub-zero conditions at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. ALIT is the United States Army Alaska's Cold Weather Indoctrination program. It gives all soldiers, regardless of their job, the foundation to successfully work, train, and go to war in some of the harshest environments in the world. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Justin Connaher) **FILE**

Obama forcing military to measure Arctic ice levels

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

"Department of Defense Law of War Manual."

New Pentagon manual declares journalists can be enemy combatants

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration on the new preeminence of "Transgender Rights" by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ELAINE DONNELLY: Pentagon makes sexual orientation special class

By Elaine Donnelly

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Peter Cook named by Pentagon as new press secretary

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

"We've been very clear — very clear — the federal budget must be balanced between defense and domestic spending," said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada. (Associated Press)

Government shutdown showdown begins as Democrats filibuster defense spending bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, right, arrive to attend the opening of the Army-2015 international military show featuring the latest Russian weapons in Kubinka, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Putin said Tuesday the Russian military will receive 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year capable of piercing any missile defenses, a blunt reminder of the nation's nuclear might amid tensions with the West over Ukraine. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool photo via AP)

Russia warns U.S. not to store weapons near Ukraine

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 21, 2013, file photo, Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing the body of a person killed during the gas facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria. The U.S. said the military launched an airstrike Saturday, June 13, 2015, targeting an al Qaeda leader in eastern Libya who has been charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in 2013 that killed 35 hostages, including three Americans. The Libyan government and U.S. officials said warplanes targeted and likely killed Mokhtar BelMokhtar and several others. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul, File)

Al Qaeda leader in Libya presumed dead in U.S. strike: Pentagon

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Pentagon seeks repeal of Russian rocket ban

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

Army Lt. Col. Jason Amerine testified to Congress last week about retaliation against whistleblowers. (Associated Press)

Jason Amerine, Green Beret aiming to free U.S. hostages, caught in FBI web

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Taliban and al Qaeda detainees sit in a holding at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in this Jan. 11, 2002 photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama admin. transfers 6 Gitmo detainees to Oman

By Nerda Pickler - Associated Press

This Feb. 19, 2015, photo shows Referee Module No. 2 of the Whole System Live Agent Test at Dugway Proving Ground in Dugway, Utah. (Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP) ** FILE **

11 live anthrax lots found at Dugway lab so far

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Afternoon News with Tim Constantine June 10, 2015

Afternoon News with Tim Constantine (June 10, 2015)

By Tim Constantine

Lt. Col. Jason Amerine.

Green Beret Lt. Col. Jason Amerine: Army trying to court-martial him for whistleblowing

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This Nov. 19, 2004, file photo shows Rosa Maria Peralta sitting on her son's bed in his bedroom ash she reflects back on her memories with her son, Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, in San Diego, Calif. (Nelvin Cepeda/U-T San Diego via AP, File)

California family to accept Navy Cross after fight for Medal of Honor

By Julie Watson - Associated Press