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An Army sergeant accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian has waived his right to a pretrial investigation hearing, the Army says.
The first of two Hawaii-based soldiers accused of murder in the killing of a civilian in northern Iraq is set for a hearing Thursday that could determine whether he will face court martial.
The defense secretary has committed to resolving a dispute over educational benefits so Minnesota National Guard soldiers soon can register for classes, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday.
The Army brigade that has served the most time on the battlefield since 2001 is coming home. But as they return, troops may have to leave two of their own behind in Iraq.
Nearly half the members of one of the longest serving U.S. military units in Iraq are not eligible for a more generous military educational benefit, with some falling one day short of eligibility.
Two sergeants who helped write a New York Times op-ed article sharply critical of the Pentagon's assessment of the Iraq war were killed in a Baghdad crash this week, and one grieving mother wants the Army to explain their deaths.
Al-Qaida linked insurgents killed three American soldiers after capturing them last month in Iraq, according to a militant video released Monday that claimed to show footage of the ambush. The video offered no proof for its claims.
Schoolmates remembered Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. as a gentle jock Thursday, hours after Army officials confirmed the 20-year-old's body was found during an exhaustive search for him and two other soldiers ambushed in Iraq.
Three U.S. soldiers slaughtered in a grisly kidnapping-murder plot south of Baghdad last June had been left alone for up to 36 hours in a poorly planned mission, a military investigation concluded. Two officers have been relieved of their commands.
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said Monday that an Afghan soldier who shot and killed two U.S. troops the day before outside a top-security prison was mentally ill.
The Army, faced with thousands of cases of brain injury from the Iraq war, will soon begin testing brain scanning equipment in hopes of finding a more accurate way to identify hard-to-diagnose wounds.
Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing against a patrol base northeast of Baghdad, the military said.
Soldiers waging a nationwide offensive against drug traffickers will get a pay hike of nearly 50 percent this year in a bid to insulate them from corruption, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced Monday.
Militia fighters attacked a provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, killing five American soldiers Saturday night, the U.S. military reported.
Interviews with boys as young as 14 who said they fought in the recent weeks of violence in Somalia lend credence to accusations that children have been recruited for battle in this chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
A pipe bomb and other explosive materials were found at an apartment shared by two soldiers who had served in Iraq, and one reportedly talked to his roommate about placing a bomb at a high school and shooting students, authorities said.
India's army chief has ordered an investigation into a string of recent incidents of soldiers fatally shooting their colleagues in India's insurgency-wracked portion of Kashmir, where years of heavy fighting are taking their toll on stressed, isolated troops, officials said Thursday.
Margie Black had wanted to enter the military as a teenager, but having her first child at 19 put off her ambitions. So when she learned the Army raised its enlistment age, Black, now a 41-year-old grandmother from West Columbia, Texas, didn't hesitate to join. The decision took "about 30 seconds," she said.
It takes at least 10 minutes and a large glass of orange juice to wash down all the pills — morphine, methadone, a muscle relaxant, an antidepressant, a stool softener. Viagra for sexual dysfunction. Valium for his nerves.
Israeli troops detained about 350 Lebanese soldiers and police in Marjayoun after capturing the town on Thursday, Lebanon's interior minister said. The Israeli military said nobody was taken prisoner.
Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering Iraqi detainees refused to testify Thursday at a military hearing, where witnesses described how one of the victims spat blood as he lay dying and another was covered in brain matter.
Four U.S. soldiers accused of murdering suspected insurgents during a raid in Iraq said they were under orders to "kill all military age males," according to sworn statements obtained by The Associated Press.
The Israeli army said Wednesday that three of its soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah raid in which two other soldiers were captured. The army withheld news of the deaths for several hours while the soldiers' families were notified.
A "torch party" from the 101st Airborne Division has arrived to prepare Fort Campbell for the mass return of the rest of the division following a yearlong tour in Iraq.
The U.S. Army will investigate charges that five American soldiers were involved in the killings of four Iraqi relatives, including a woman who had been raped, military officials said Friday. It's the sixth current inquiry into the alleged slayings of Iraqi civilians by American troops.
Troops exposed to explosions in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be checked for brain injury, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed. The MoD said questionnaires had been sent to troops to see if they had signs of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI).
Ever since U.S. Marines first started deploying to Fallujah back in early 2004, military families in and around California's Camp Pendleton have fretted over their loved ones serving in Iraq's deadly City of Mosques.
Rachel Papo is an Israeli who was born in 1970 in Columbus, Ohio but was raised in Israel. She began photographing as a teenager and attended a renowned fine-arts high-school in Haifa, Israel. At age eighteen she served in the Israeli Air Force as a photographer.
Kurdish 'Rebels' have taken Turkish soldiers hostage in Southern Turkey. The soldiers where riding in a 'mini-bus' according to Turkish News agencies.
More than 30,000 foreign troops are enlisted in the US Army, many of them serving in Iraq.
It's the strangest film screening I've ever been to: a film in which Iraqi insurgents play the starring role, telling their story of why they kill Americans. The venue: Faw Palace, headquarters for Camp Victory, the largest American base in Iraq.
So lately, Blackwater has been in the news. Everyone has finally figured out that there are nonmilitary private contractors slinging automatic weapons and hanging out of helicopters in Iraq, and so far the standard factionalization hasn't taken place.
This an article about daily life for a soldier in Iraq at least in my neck of the woods. Unlike what many think or the way the news and some prominent politicians put it, it is not a living hell. Yes, it does sucks being here, but hell it isn't.
Thousands of U.S. soldiers in Iraq — as many as 10 a day — are being discharged by the military for mental health reasons. But the Pentagon isn't blaming the war. It says the soldiers had "pre-existing" conditions that disqualify them for treatment by the government.
We're living in a "wonderful world of umbrage," but only when the criticisms are going in one direction. As far as Limbaugh is concerned, those seven U.S. troops who denounced Bush's policy in an NYT op-ed last month? Phonies. VoteVets.org? Phonies.
Thirty-eight Indiana Soldiers are scheduled to arrive home Saturday, September 29, 2007, after completing missions overseas.
Under a program developed by a Defense Department warfare unit, Army snipers have begun using a new method to kill Iraqis suspected of being insurgents, using fake weapons and bomb-making material as bait and then killing anyone who picks them up, according to testimony presented …
Heat-resistant. Cold-proof. Tireless. Tomorrow's soldiers are just like today's — only better. Inside the Pentagon's human enhancement project.
If you are serving in the US military, it is likely that you will see service in one or both of these countries. But which is the "better" of the two evils? Read these servicemen/women womments and then make up your own minds. Vote here.
with a jingoist Junta in charge of the USA we're cheerleader-ed and inflamed to support the troops because the Junta knows that should we fully understand that the reasons for the involvement of the military in a foreign civil war being bogus, our willingness to let our military …
Ministers have failed in their duty of care to our Armed Forces, said the British Legion yesterday. And the charity has launched a campaign for a restoration of the Military Covenant - the mutual bond between troops, their families and the nation.
More Pakistani soldiers abducted Scores of soldiers have been kidnapped in recent days Pro-Taleban militants have attacked a check post in north-west Pakistan and abducted 12 soldiers, officials say. The militants, armed with rocket launchers and heavy weapons, attacked the …
Here's the Op-Ed the soldiers wrote.More truthful, more realistic than anything the ridiculous Bush shills supposedly running the show have presented toward the spineless Congress. Petraeus is no hero.
A Michigan man, seeking to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq, says he killed a 22-year-old Dutch student with an ax after failing to find a soldier to kill, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Three years after U.S. Army Private Armando Soriano, 20, died fighting in Haditha, Iraq, his father is facing deportation. Soriano is now buried in Houston, Tex., his hometown, where his parents, undocumented workers from Mexico, are currently living.
The father of U.S. Private Armando Soriano, 20, who died in Iraq is facing deportation. Many parents of U.S. soldiers who are fighting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are facing the same fate.
DONA ANA BASE CAMP, New Mexico: About 1,000 soldiers searched rough terrain in suffocating temps Tuesday. John R Fish, nineteen-years-old, ammunition specialist, was last seen walking into the desert after leaving a note on his bunk that read, "I have some things to take care of.
The sun shines on an empty Iraqi street. A Blackhawk helicopter circles overhead. The aromas of spices from a market fill the air.
Thenactual numbers quoted here are a little misleading: many US personnel classed as overweight are actually carrying large amounts of muscle mass rather than body fat. The usage of BMI index data would show a slightly better state of affairs.
In September, the White House is going to issue its report on the "surge" of troops in Iraq. They'll try to convince Congress (and American citizens) that the occupation of Iraq and Bush's "surge" are working.
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