When U.S. and Iraqi troops invade the Islamic State group’s stronghold in Mosul, a big part of the battle may occur underground. The massive military operation, expected to begin in October, will be complicated by a network of tunnels beneath the city. These labyrinths will offer a ke...
But Army judge Col. Jeffery Nance decided that the comments by the Republican senator from Arizona haven't unfairly influenced the case. "No reasonable member of the public knowing that Senator McCain has absolutely no command authority or color of command authority over SGT Bergdahl'...
Tucked into the last-minute budget deal passed by Congress this week are new protections for whistleblowers in the Department of Veterans Affairs in response to a series of high-profile retaliation cases that lawmakers insist show a cultural problem in the bureaucracy. The provisions ...
CVS will leave the Tricare pharmacy network, replaced by drug giant Walgreens starting Dec. 1, the Defense Health Agency announced Friday. All CVS pharmacies, including those inside Target stores, will no longer be considered "in network," but Walgreens, a company that left Tricare in...
Whether they're training wounded warriors for high-paying jobs in cybersecurity or giving recycled, sanitized medical equipment to veterans and family members, this year’s Newman’s Own award winners are focused on meeting specific needs in the military and veteran communities. The win...
WASHINGTON — A senior State Department official sought to assure skeptical lawmakers that Russia is at risk of becoming mired in Syria if the civil war rages on, a prospect that gives the United States an upper hand as it pressures Moscow to end attacks in the besieged city of Aleppo....
The fight against the Islamic State group is far from over in Iraq's Anbar province. The extremist group still controls the Euphrates River Valley west of Haditha up to the Syrian border. Almost every day the American-led coalition's airstrikes hit Islamic State targets in Ramadi, the...
MOSCOW — Russian officials accused the U.S. on Thursday of siding with "terrorists" in Syria, in a sign of escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington amid the battle for the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby's warning that the collapse o...
Officials at Got Your Six already know veterans are more likely to do volunteer work, donate to charity and get involved in local politics. Now the advocacy group is challenging non-veterans to use that available military experience and enthusiasm to better their communities. On Thurs...
U.S. troops in Somalia came under fire in two separate attacks this week, requiring U.S. Africa Command to launch two “self-defense” airstrikes and killing 13 al-Shabab militants, a defense official said. The first attack came Sept. 26 near Kismayo, a port city in southern Somalia, wh...
Visiting an Army base in Virginia, President Barack Obama offered a detailed rationale for his decision to allow women to serve in combat career fields, saying the new policy is making the military stronger despite concerns about the impact on individual combat units' readiness and pe...
Duterte has had an uneasy relationship with the U.S., his country's long-standing ally and former colonial power, since he won a presidential election in May. More than 3,000 suspected drug pushers and users have been killed since July 1 under Duterte's war on drugs. Human rights advo...
Army Cpl. Tyler Wilson was 20 years old when he was hit in a firefight in Afghanistan and paralyzed from the waist down. Eleven years later, Wilson is five months away from becoming a father – a privilege that cost he and wife Crystal Wilson more than $14,000 in fertility treatments -...
Congress averted a government shutdown with a rushed budget deal on Wednesday that also settles the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction budget for all of fiscal 2017. The measure gives VA officials $74.4 billion in discretionary spending next year, a nearly 4 perc...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says a U.S. airstrike targeted and killed nine al-Shabab militants in Somalia on Wednesday. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, says Somali forces who were going after a bomb-making network in the Puntland region came under small arms fire from enemy...
MOSCOW — The Russian military said Wednesday it's ready to resume contacts with its U.S. counterparts over the situation in Syria, even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry threatened to cut all cooperation with Moscow on Syria unless an onslaught on Aleppo ends. Lt. Gen. Viktor Pozn...
Obama wide-ranging town hall meeting with members of the nation's military, taped for CNN, covered an array of hot-button issues. A widow of a veteran who received poor care from the Department of Veterans Affairs wanted to know why there wasn't more accountability for some employees....
Troops and their families will have stronger protections against predatory lenders starting Oct. 3 — and some in the banking industry have expressed concern that stricter rules will cause some loan options to disappear. The 36 percent interest rate cap now applies to all types of cons...
The U.S. military plans to expand operations at Iraq’s Al Asad Air Base with more troops and the installation of new technology supporting night operations at the massive airfield in Anbar Province. The U.S. military will set up a new “instrument landing system,” which will cover the ...
OMAHA, Neb. — A new national cemetery for veterans in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa has opened with a service for four men who had served in the military. The ashes of the four veterans were buried with full military honors at the new Omaha National Cemetery. One deceased military...
KIRKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, New Mexico -- The Pentagon is preparing to send up to 600 additional U.S. troops to Iraq as part of a “final increase” in support for the upcoming invasion of the Islamic State group’s stronghold in Mosul, Iraq’s prime minister said Wednesday. "American Presid...
NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands — Dutch-led criminal investigators said Wednesday they have solid evidence that a Malaysian jet was shot down by a Buk missile moved into eastern Ukraine from Russia. Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Central Crime Investigation department of the Dutch National Po...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The U.S. military says it has killed four al-Shabab extremists in Somalia in what it calls airstrikes in self-defense. A U.S. Africa Command statement on Tuesday says the extremists launched attacks on Somali troops and their U.S. advisers on Monday in a village n...
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Iowa's second-largest city has managed to keep flooding at bay largely because of barriers that were widely used to protect soldiers in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Crews in Cedar Rapids hastily erected Hesco barriers along nearly 10 miles of the Cedar River thro...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. intends to deploy a missile defense system in South Korea "as soon as possible" to counter the threat from North Korea despite opposition from China, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said Tuesday. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Russel said he believes Sou...
WASHINGTON — Legislation that would allow the families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for allegedly backing the terrorists who carried out the attacks could be devastating to the U.S. military, according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Carter's admonition, ...
A rocket fired last week at an Iraqi base where American troops are present did not contain a chemical agent despite earlier suspicions, the U.S. military reported Tuesday. Extensive laboratory tests concluded that the munition did not contain mustard agent, Air Force Col. John Dorria...
A 10-week budget extension to keep federal programs running through the November elections stalled in the Senate on Tuesday, raising the prospect of a government shutdown at the end of the week. The continuing resolution would have not only provided funding through Dec. 9 but also wou...
During the first presidential debate on Monday, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton proposed increasing airstrikes against the Islamic State group and continuing to target its leaders in the Middle East. Her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, criticized the former secretary of State fo...
WASHINGTON — More than one-third of calls to a suicide hotline for troubled veterans are not being answered by front-line staffers because of poor work habits and other problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the hotline's former director. Some hotline workers han...
