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Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul unload their car at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil, 217 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (associated press)

Obama administration hints at alliance with Iran on Iraqi militants in policy reversal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Criticism of Obama mounts as Islamists sweep through Iraq

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

*FILE** A Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

U.S. upping drone missions in Iraq to combat insurgency

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

The Pentagon paid $3 million in 2010 to buy eight patrol boats to help Afghan National Security Forces secure their country's Amu Darya river border, but the boats were never given to the Afghan military.

Golden Hammer: Pentagon sank $3 million in boats that never made it to Afghanistan

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

This undated image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. U.S. officials say the only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed and is in U.S. custody. The officials say Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's (boh BURG'-dahl) release was part of a negotiation that includes the release of five Afghan detainees held in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)

Pentagon believes Bergdahl was drugged in proof-of-life video

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this April 23, 2009 photo, Chinese Navy helicopters and 528 warship attend an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy in the water off Qingdao of Shandong Province, China. China’s boosted defense spending this year grew 12.2 percent to $132 billion, continuing more than two decades of nearly unbroken double-digit percentage increases that have afforded Beijing the means to potentially alter the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific. Outside observers put China’s actual defense spending significantly higher, although estimates vary widely. (AP Photo/Guang Niu, Pool)

Chinese military growing in size and reach, Pentagon report shows

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 8, 2014 file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. To congressional Republicans, "Benghazi" is shorthand for incompetence and cover-up. Democrats hear it as the hollow sound of pointless investigations. It is, in fact, a Mediterranean port city in Libya that was the site of an attack on an American diplomatic compound on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. That's nearly all that U.S. politicians can agree on about Benghazi. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama never consulted with Congress on Taliban prisoners: Boehner

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Tom Cruise in the 1986 blockbuster movie Top Gun

Top Gun sequel: Russian jet, U.S. plane nearly collide in showdown over Pacific

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, listens to Lt. Gen. Wang Guanzhong, right, China's deputy chief of General Staff, at the start of their meeting, Saturday, May 31, 2014 in Singapore. Hagel warned an international security conference Saturday that the U.S. &quot;will not look the other way&quot; when nations such as China try to restrict navigation or ignore international rules and standards. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Pentagon lets first contract for space debris ‘fence’

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Photo illustration with U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl and a U.S. military sniper.

Pentagon knew Bergdahl’s whereabouts but didn’t risk rescue for ‘deserter’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This undated file image provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching, the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter. Instead, the U.S. government pursued negotiations to get him back over the following five years of his captivity a track that led to his release over the weekend. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)

Administration mum on Bowe Bergdahl discipline

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

SIMMONS: Westboro Baptists planning protests in D.C.

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

A solider stands guard near a military aircraft in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel traveled to Kandahar Air Base to speak with U.S. troops and thank them for being deployed for the holidays. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, Pool)

Air Force wants funding for Afghan drone, jet program

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is enveloped in fog Feb. 11, 2014, as it sits in its berth in San Diego. (DoD photo by Glenn Fawcett/Released)

Pentagon wrestles with false climate predictions as military funds shifted to green agenda

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility's open-air common area at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **

Terror suspects freed by Obama admin. for soldier were labeled ‘high risk’ in 2008: report

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This file photo shows Fred Phelps Sr. displays one of his many infamous protest signs. Phelps, the fiery founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a small Kansas church, who drew international condemnation for outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died the family said Thursday, March 20, 2014. He was 84. (AP Photo/The Topeka Capital Journal)

Westboro to protest Pentagon; Phelps says military is ‘enemy of God’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb, 18, 2011 file photo a vehicle drives out of the Sverdrup Gate of Fort Leonard Wood near Rolla, Mo. Staff Sgt. Angel M. Sanchez, a former drill sergeant at the base, was accused Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at a pretrial hearing at the post of sexually assaulting several female soldiers during the past three years, including at least one while he was deployed in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

Sergeant accused of sexually assaulting soldiers

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER - Associated Press

An MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a mission over southern Afghanistan. Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen shot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone operating in international airspace off the country's coast, a Defense Department official confirmed Wednesday. (USAF via Associated Press)

Obama’s Afghanistan pullout may end domination of drones

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

House panel snubs Pentagon on defense spending

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press