The Department of Defense must disclose the names of individuals who studied and taught during the past eight years at a Georgia school that trains foreign military and police officers, a federal judge in California has ruled.

Attorneys for the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians last spring are just weeks from a deadline for declaring whether they intend to use a mental health defense at his court-martial.

A year after testifying that some executives received bonuses by manipulating appointment data for veterans needing mental health care, a former Department of Veterans Affairs hospital administrator said officials have avoided the issue "like the plague."

Israel has a unilateral right to strike Iran, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said ahead of talks in Jerusalem Monday on Iran's nuclear program threats. "Israel is a sovereign nation and every sovereign nation has the right to defend itself...�