After a month of personnel appointments and canine selection, last week was the Obama administration's week of revelation. ...more

March 4, 2009

A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say. ...more

February 27, 2009

Congressional officials say President Barack Obama has told lawmakers he plans to pull troops out of Iraq by August 2010. ...more

February 26, 2009

Mike Toma had just come off fire watch duty in Beirut, Lebanon, and was asleep in his barracks when a bomb exploded less than 100 feet away. ...more

October 19, 2008

I was blessed as a young man when I decided to join the Marine Corps. ...more

October 18, 2008

For the third time in four months, a female soldier based at Fort Bragg is dead, and a husband or lover is charged with murder - leading critics to demand that the home base of the Army's elite soldiers exert "control over their troops" and address domestic violence. ...more

October 4, 2008

The enemy hides among civilians on the urban battlefield, walking the same dusty streets and in the same crowded markets where Cpl. Derrick Terrell found himself during a yearlong deployment in Iraq. ...more

August 29, 2008

The Marine Corps will not bring criminal charges against two officers in command of a unit involved in the shooting deaths of as many as 19 civilians in northeastern Afghanistan last year after a car bomb struck the Marines' convoy, military commanders said Friday. ...more

May 24, 2008

For months after a pregnant 20-year-old Marine accused a colleague of rape, her family says, she continued to work alongside her attacker and endured harassment at Camp Lejeune. ...more

January 13, 2008

WHO: Local Women Marines Association members BACK IN DOLLIE'S DAY: Fresh out of high school in Chicago and only 18, Dollie Pobozny was in the first group of women trainees at Camp Lejeune. The Marines moved basic training for women to the base in North Carolina in 1943. ...more

December 3, 2007