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Huawei made its presence at a wireless trade show in Las Vegas this year. Some in Congress fear the Chinese telecommunications giant, said to have ties to China's military, poses a risk to national security with its deal to supply components to a supercomputer lab that is a defense contractor. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Chinese company tried to hack NSA using U.S. defense contractor

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

conflagration: Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and militants of the Islamic State group. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, has been under assault since mid-September. Story, A9 (Associated Press)

Obama strategy, legal authority for Islamic State offensive in question

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Mission Manager Brian Stites with Ratheon, flies a hobbyist's AR Drone 2.0 to demonstrate the company's electronic armor, or anti-tamper system software they have developed to protect against hacking into military systems, during the 2014 Association of the United States Army's Annual Meeting and Exposition held at the Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, October 14, 2014. The software prevents tampering, and injection of malware into man and unmanned avionics and maritime, weapon and defense systems. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Pentagon deploys Electronic Armor to prevent enemies from hacking and crashing

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at a new conference at the Tolemaida military base in Melgar, Colombia, Oct. 10, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Climate change can ‘foster terrorism,’ Pentagon says

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at a new conference at the Tolemaida military base in Melgar, Colombia, Oct. 10, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hagel: Climate change will put strain on U.S. military

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks at a new conference at the Tolemaida military base in Melgar, Colombia, Oct. 10, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Hagel: Climate change will challenge U.S. military

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Turkish officials on Monday denied the existence of a deal to allow U.S.-led forces battling the Islamic State to conduct operations from bases inside Turkey, such as Incirlik. This made for an awkward situation for National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice, who announced such a cooperation ahead of an international strategy session. (associated press)

Turkey denies U.S. base deal in place for Islamic State battle

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Dwight Eisenhower stands with Capt. John A. Maurer, skipper of the cruiser St. Paul, as the warship moves along the Southern tip of Formosa during trip from Manila. (AP Photo, file)

BRUCE FEIN: Squinting at the Vietnam War

By Bruce Fein

Militants with the Islamic State with a machine gun-fitted pickup truck hold positions in Kobani, Syria, during intensified fighting with Syrian Kurds. The Pentagon predicted that more towns in Syria and Iraq will fall to the terrorist group in the coming weeks. (Associated Press)

Pentagon sees Baghdad at risk of Islamic State takeover, expects Kobani to fall

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the Islamic State group is shown in Iraq's Anbar Province. Mass graves have turned up in Iraq's Anbar province that may contain up to 220 victims of the Islamic State group.
(AP Photo via militant website, File) — FILE

Islamic State shifts from northern Iraq to Anbar province in west

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

The Turkish military is fortifying its border as fighting intensifies between Syrian Kurds and the Islamic State group in Kobani, which has been under attack for weeks. (Associated Press)

Islamic State withstands bombing campaign, plots Baghdad invasion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Image: Facebook, 101st Airborne Division

Pentagon now expects up to 4K troops to head to West Africa for Ebola mission

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A Ugandan doctor who contracted Ebola while working in Sierra Leone is being brought in a special ambulance, background, to the quarantine ward of the University clinic in Frankfurt, central Germany, early Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Authorities in the German state of Hesse say the doctor, who was not identified, had worked for an Italian aid group in West Africa when he became infected. (AP Photo/dpa, Boris Roessler)

U.S. military building Ebola treatment centers in Liberia, ready to send 4K troops

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A U.S.-made Patriot missile is launched during in Ilan County, 49 miles west of Taipei, Taiwan., on July 20, 2006. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon plans $1.75B Patriot Missile sale to Saudi Arabia

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria during a news conference at the Pentagon. According to current and former U.S. officials, the Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Airstrikes launched in Iraq and Syria amid intelligence gaps

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a formation of U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornets leaves after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq, as part of U.S. led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State group and other targets in Syria. U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, killing nearly 20 people as the militants released dozens of detainees in their de facto capital, fearing further raids, activists said. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Shawn Nickel)

Pentagon: Most of ISIS’ oil refineries in Syria have been destroyed

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

(Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon spokesman moonlighted as provocative photographer

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times

In this March 29, 2010 photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo guard keeps watch from a tower overlooking the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The transfer of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay has ground to a halt amid a slow Pentagon approval process. That’s caused frustration within the administration and raised doubts that President Barack Obama can fulfill his campaign promise to close the U.S. prison Cuba for terrorism suspects. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Obama goal of Gitmo closure stalled at Pentagon

By Nedra Pickler - Associated Press

Capts. Andrew Glowa, left, and William Piepenbring launch flares from two A-10C Thunderbolt IIs Aug. 18, 2014, over southern Georgia. Both pilots are with the 74th Fighter Squadron, Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Pilots, maintainers and support Airmen ensure Moody AFB’s A-10s stay mission ready for daily training sorties and deployments downrange. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jamal D. Sutter/Released) ** FILE **

U.S. military limits warplanes used for ISIS bombing in Iraq, Syria

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times