FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — Military officials have identified the soldier killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training off the Virginia coast. ...more

October 25, 2009

Military officials and local dignitaries dedicated the new Lt. Cmdr. Otis Vincent Tolbert Joint Intelligence Operations Center at MacDill Air Force Base this week. ...more

August 29, 2009

U.S. intelligence agencies were still collecting data Monday after North Korea's announcement that it had carried out a nuclear test, but analysts expressed little doubt that the regime had exploded such a device. ...more

May 26, 2009

The U.S. military map in Iraq in early 2010: Marines are leaving the western desert, Army units are in the former British zone in the south and the overall mission is coalescing around air and logistics hubs in central and northern Iraq. ...more

March 9, 2009

More than 1,000 border guards were charged Sunday with murder and arson in an uprising that left at least 148 people dead or missing, most of them army officers whose bodies were hurriedly discarded by the mutineers. ...more

March 2, 2009

The Special Operations paratrooper died who died Thursday afternoon after landing in a lake at Gadsden Park has been identified as Col. James L. Merchant III, 46. ...more

January 30, 2009

The U.S. Army Reserve soldier who died Sunday in St. Petersburg during a training exercise has been identified as Sgt. 1st Class James Bailey Jr. of Belzoni, Miss., military officials say. ...more

January 15, 2009

In an unusual instance of cross-border cooperation, Pakistani authorities arrested a ranking figure in Afghanistan's Taliban movement after receiving a tip he had crossed into Pakistan, officials disclosed Saturday. ...more

January 4, 2009

The top U.S. general in Iraq said he will make a decision about the future role of American troops in early spring, to allow enough time to address any violence that may arise from January's provincial elections. ...more

December 21, 2008

China celebrated its increasing prosperity Thursday in marking the launch of a free-market revolution 30 years ago. President and Communist Party leader Hu Jintao urged more economic reform while vowing it would not lead to Western-style democracy. Hu entered the Great Hall of the People at the head of a line of China's top communist leaders - more than 6,000 party leaders and military officials who politely applauded throughout his remarks. Economic reforms have made China the fourth-largest economy in the world, but they have not led to a loosening of its authoritarian system. ...more

December 19, 2008