The U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq will create a shortage of helicopters and logistics support that high-level officials worry will hamper the elite U.S. troops who stay behind to train Iraqi forces and to combat terrorist networks, according to experts studying the problem. ...more

March 9, 2009

Rebels seized an east Congo army base and the headquarters of a refuge for some of the world's last mountain gorillas in heavy fighting Sunday that sent thousands fleeing, U.N. officials and rebels said. ...more

October 27, 2008

Florida's largest National Guard unit, which includes several companies and batteries from the Tampa Bay area, has been alerted that it is to be deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. ...more

December 4, 2007

WASHINGTON - Florida's largest National Guard unit, which includes several companies and batteries from the Tampa Bay area, has been alerted that it can expect to be deployed again to Afghanistan in 2009. ...more

December 3, 2007