Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans on Monday in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of the troubled war. ...more

October 26, 2009

The U.S. military says five American soldiers were among seven people killed in a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. ...more

April 10, 2009

Six years after the United States invaded Iraq, the end of America's costly mission is in sight, but the future of this tortured country is much less clear. ...more

March 20, 2009

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

In a grandstanding news conference on May 17, 2006, John Murtha, serving as a congressman from Pennsylvania since 1974, tried and convicted American soldiers before having any evidence. He said that Marines in Haditha "shot 24 Iraqis in cold blood" and claimed "the military tried to cover it up." ...more

July 11, 2008

In a news conference on May 17, 2006, John Murtha tried and convicted American soldiers before having any evidence. ...more

July 11, 2008

TAMPA - U.S. troops in Iraq will be among the people benefiting from a blood drive today and Wednesday at University Community Hospital, according to the hospital. ...more

July 8, 2008

Peno Hardesty of New Port Richey says in contemporary America there are no angles, just monsters. ...more

June 25, 2008

The decisive battle of the Iraq war is shaping up - not in the streets of Baghdad but in the halls of government where the future of America's role across the region is on the line. ...more

June 22, 2008

In reference to the letter dated Feb. 20 by Charles E. Wilson, all I can say is "How Typically Democratic!" Mr. Wilson begins and ends with a condemnation of the current Congress' spending any time on the steroids scandal when more important issues are at hand. However, so typically Democratic, Mr. Wilson just had to take a shot at condemning Bush for the Iraq War. Mr. Wilson emphatically promotes the false reasoning perpetuated by those Democrats who hate President Bush because he legitimately won the first and second election over weak Democratic candidates. Bush's decision to take out Saddam and ensure that his WMDs wouldn't fall into the hands of terrorists who wanted to destroy us and or our interests was the right thing to do, at the right time. Most of the Democratic leaders agreed and if anyone believes President Bush influenced the thinking of Hillary, etc., they need to stop with the Kool Aid. ...more

February 25, 2008