Earlier this week, the Obama administration released its much-anticipated "Lockerbie Letter," in which, conservative critics charge, President Obama acceded to a decision by the United Kingdom to release the man responsible for murdering everyone on board Pan Am Flight 103.

The U.S. government routinely uses the term "War on Terror" to describe its military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Charles Benjamin Gittings Jr. died July 14, 2010 at his home in Fort Bragg after a long battle with cancer.

In this file photo, Omar Khadr listens to Interrogator 1 testify during his military hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in this court sketch.

A Sudanese prisoner accused of guarding Osama bin Laden and helping him escape US forces in Afghanistan pleaded guilty in the Guantanamo tribunals on Wednesday, giving the Obama administration its first conviction in the controversial war crimes court.

Democratic leaders hope to rally their rank-and-file troops this week by dealing with controversial campaign finance legislation just before lawmakers hit the campaign trail.