Obama to visit Israel for 1st time as president

Josh Lederman, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will visit Israel in the spring, the White House said Tuesday, marking his first visit to the staunch U.S. ally since becoming president. While in the region, Obama will also visit the West Bank and Jordan...

National security takes backseat in 2012 election

Perry Bacon Jr.

theGRIO REPORT - In the first few years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, national security and terrorism dominated the national agenda, becoming one on the chief dividing lines in American politics...

Did Congress force Obama into his controversial terrorism policies?

Ari Melber

ANALYSIS - For the first time in a generation, a Democrat is running for president without facing sustained attacks on his national security credentials...

Bachmann calls Obama 'most dangerous president' ever'

theGrio

In a recent interview with the Daily Beast, Rep. Michele Bachmann called President Barack Obama 'the most dangerous president we've had on national security'...

'Smoke bomb' tossed over White House fence

NBC Local

WASHINGTON -- Someone threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb over the White House fence Tuesday night, according to the Secret Service...

Gadhafi death another victory for Obama doctrine

theGrio

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States showed it can help rally an international campaign to protect Libyans and rid the world of a killer without a single U.S. troop dying...

Obama on 10-year mark of Afghan war: America safer

theGrio

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the United States is safer thanks to the sacrifice of troops, diplomats and intelligence analysts during the now decade-long war in Afghanistan...

Obama praises killing of Al-Qaeda cleric al-Awlaki

theGrio

WASHINGTON (AP) - Anwar al-Awlaki, and a second American, Samir Khan, were killed by a joint CIA-U.S. military air strike on their convoy in Yemen early Friday...