Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major modifications to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

January 5, 2009

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Acting on widespread complaints from its troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Marine Corps has ordered major modifications to its body armor to improve comfort, mobility and safety, The Associated Press has learned. ...more

January 3, 2009

Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can't just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden that really sticks in my craw. It was when she turned to Biden and declared: "You recently said paying taxes is patriotic. In middle-class America, where I have been all my life, that is not considered patriotic." ...more

October 9, 2008

The U.S. military's main combat hospital in Iraq is increasingly treating Iraqis. As the numbers of wounded American troops have fallen, the hospital is now saving the lives of a remarkable 93 percent of Iraqis who come with devastating injuries. ...more

October 2, 2008

The pictures show shredded limbs, burned faces, profusely bleeding wounds. The subjects are mostly American GIs, but they include Iraqis and Afghans, some of them young children. ...more

August 5, 2008

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said today that security in Iraq has improved and that the United States urgently needs to turn its attention to Afghanistan. ...more

July 22, 2008

Women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan get a morale boost with beauty products shipped by a Web site founded by the parents of an Iraq veteran. ...more

June 27, 2008

Life-saving equipment means more than body armor in the U.S. Army. ...more

June 7, 2008

Life-saving equipment means more than body armor in the U.S. Army. ...more

June 6, 2008

Families from a polygamist sect began trickling back to the Yearning For Zion Ranch on Tuesday - exactly two months after child welfare authorities and law enforcement first arrived at its battered metal gate looking for a caller to a domestic abuse hot line. ...more

June 4, 2008