Trying to avert another tragedy like the Fort Hood shootings, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named a former Army secretary and former Navy chief to review a broad range of Pentagon programs, ranging from medical and personnel policies to how well military.

Washington - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday in Washington that US plans to reduce and eventually withdraw troops from Iraq have not been changed amid uncertainty whether planned January 18 elections will be held as scheduled. We are...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is dodging questions about the future of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers.

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 20, 2009) - The Honourable Peter MacKay, Canada's Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, and Dr. Robert M. Gates, the United States Secretary of Defense, met today to discuss how to enhance cooperation on shared safety and security challenges in North America and abroad. "The Government of Canada is proud to be actively ...

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Canada's contributions to the war against Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan are a key to success, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says.

WASHINGTON | Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates welcomed new German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to the Pentagon today. ...

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’s statement echoed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent warning to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan. As the Obama administration wrestles over its new Afghanistan strategy, the domestic debate is having far-reaching implications for the United States' ties with its allies in the war.

The United States will do its part to reduce corruption in Afghanistan by examining its own contracts and projects, even as it is demanding the same from the Afghan government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday.