It's turning out to be a costly commute home for the US Defence Secretary, Leon Panetta.

Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four suspected co-conspirators were directed today to stand trial before a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal on charges that could carry the death penalty, the Pentagon said.

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Two militants drove a car packed with explosives into a Yemeni army base in the south of the country today, killing themselves and a soldier, the Defence Ministry said.

Remains of some of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks ended up being dumped in a landfill site, it was revealed last night, in a new report on mismanagement at a military mortuary.

They're the stealthy elite squad who killed Bin Laden, but now a team of real US Navy Seals have stepped out of the shadows to star in a movie

The British hedge fund Pentagon Capital and its chief executive, Lewis Chester, have been ordered by a US judge to pay $77m (£49m) after "intentionally and egregiously" engaging in illegal "late trading" or making mutual fund trades after the market had closed, but at stale prices.

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A video that appears to show US Marines urinating on the corpses of Afghans has provoked widespread revulsion around the world.

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has condemned as "utterly deplorable" a video that purports to depict four US Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

Pakistan's president left the country for what was described as a one-day private visit to Dubai, amid a deepening crisis between the government and the powerful military, officials said.

The US military is to probe an online video purportedly showing soldiers urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama put his personal stamp on a re-jiggered Pentagon strategy for absorbing hundreds of billions of dollars in defense budget cuts, marking a turning point in US security policy after a decade of war.