
Reuters - The Pentagon next week hosts the highest-level Chinese military visit to the United States since Beijing severed ties between the two armed forces in early 2010 in protest over a $6.3 billion U.S. arms deal with Taiwan.

AFP - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for greater cooperation with Washington after a US army pullout from Iraq at the end of 2011, in talks Saturday with US Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Reuters - Soldiers of Ivory Coast’s rival leaders battled for the presidential palace, military bases and state TV in the main city Abidjan Saturday, in a conflict becoming so brutal that it killed 800 people in one town alone.

AFP - A US Navy intelligence specialist was charged with espionage after he allegedly tried to sell classified information to an undercover FBI agent, officials said.

AFP - A US Navy intelligence specialist was charged with espionage after he allegedly tried to sell classified information to an undercover FBI agent, officials said.

AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he was in talks with the United States about the possible establishment of permanent US military bases in his war-ravaged country.

AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that he was in talks with the United States about the possible establishment of permanent US military bases in his war-ravaged country.
