The planning process is expected to result in significant policy changes.

Seated across the table from the United States and its allies, the Iranian regime is considering an ambitious diplomatic offer to ship its uranium out of the country.

The insurgents could respond by targeting the Pakistani army in Waziristan or sending fighters across the porous border into Afghanistan.

The administration insists there is no constitutional right to humane treatment by U.S. authorities outside the United States.

Powerful groups and members of Congress that quietly accepted Obama’s infusion of 21,000 new troops this spring are finding their footing to oppose the current one.

Shah Mahmood Qureshi says his government has forged an “unprecedented national consensus” to defend a “stable, democratic country where terrorism and extremist ideologies have little or no support.”

In a London address on Thursday, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, repeatedly defended President Obama’s review of Afghan strategy, though coverage claimed he broke from the White House.

Human rights experts say there is a serious risk that some of the Guantanamo detainees cleared for release could face persecution or torture.

Gen. Raymond Odierno, testifying for the first time as commander of Multinational Forces-Iraq, told the House Armed Services Committee that his plan to reduce his 124,000 troops to 50,000 non-combat forces by August 2010 had “flexibility” built into it, and said that he would consider speeding up the drawdown as circumstances permit.

Retired generals and admirals said that they were “encouraged” by a meeting yesterday afternoon with Attorney General Eric Holder.