The Army is mailing out thousands of letters to survivors of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking what it can do to better help them, even years after the deaths of their loved ones. ...more

August 21, 2008

President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he will seek re-election next year in hopes of finishing a job he said he has not yet completed. ...more

August 20, 2008

The Army's growth plans and the demands of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are contributing to a shortfall of thousands of majors, critical mid-level officers whose ranks are not expected to be replenished for five years, according to Army data and a recent officers survey. ...more

August 17, 2008

A U.S. Army specialist who fled Fort Bragg for Canada after learning his unit was going to be deployed to Iraq was ordered deported Wednesday. ...more

August 14, 2008

Just when you think you've got the presidential race figured out, something comes along to upend your carefully wrought conclusions. ...more

August 4, 2008

TOWN 'N COUNTRY - A custom car and bike show, a vendor fair and a welcome home for troops who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will be held Saturday in the Wild Wing Cafe parking lot at 9210 Anderson Road. ...more

July 30, 2008

Top Pentagon leaders are expected to recommend soon that Defense Secretary Robert Gates order hundreds of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan over the next month or so, according to a senior military official. ...more

July 24, 2008

A long-delayed Iraq war funding bill sailed through the House on Thursday, along with historic increases in college aid for returning troops and help for the unemployed and Midwestern flood victims. ...more

June 20, 2008

Scrawled in black Sharpie, the messages of love and support adorn hundreds of white bags of Starbucks coffee in Bob Williams' Wesley Chapel warehouse. (See above item.) Filling a dozen gigantic bins, the mounds of donated bags of coffee, purchased by Starbucks customers as part of a donation effort by franchisees, are shipped to U.S. troops stationed overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...more

June 11, 2008

First lady Laura Bush made an unusual foray into the U.S. presidential campaign, praising Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., here Monday for her "grit and strength" and coming to the defense of Michelle Obama, the wife of the presumptive Democratic nominee. ...more

June 10, 2008