Pentagon

President Obama has tapped the general who oversaw the final troop withdrawal in Iraq to direct the end of the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan. 

The Pentagon warned Thursday that "there will be consequences" if Bashar Assad unleashes chemical weapons against the Syrian people, amid evidence that the regime is mixing and moving the components for a deadly nerve gas. 

As another lawsuit was filed this week challenging the Defense Department’s ban on women serving in combat, the agency was already into a year-long experiment in which thousands of combat positions are being made open to female service members.