Monthly Archives: October 2014

U.S. military leaders want to expand the advise-and-assist mission into Iraq’s Anbar province and put combat advisers on the ground to help support the fight against Islamic State militants.

Of the airmen involved in the cheating investigation at Malsmtrom Air Force Base, most of them are now back on the job.

The U.S. military will train more medical personnel to respond to domestic cases of Ebola should they occur, a senior Defense Department official said Thursday.

Expanding online shopping privileges to all honorably discharged veterans isn’t a matter of ‘if,’ but ‘when,’ the chief executive officer of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service said at a meeting in Washington on Wednesday.

Military facilities around the U.S. are on alert, urging troops and their families to take precautions amid continued threats of violence from the Islamic State group.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates ripped Washington on Thursday over sequestration budget caps, saying Congress’ inability to reach a budget compromise was causing ‘grave damage’ to the U.S.

The National Guard is deploying troops to a rural Hawaii town as lava makes a slow crawl toward a major road and threatens to further isolate the community that got its start during the lumber- and sugar-plantation heydey.

More than two years after he was shot by the enemy in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Ryan Frye was reunited with the helmet that saved his life.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday defended the Pentagon’s decision to isolate troops for 21 days after they return from Ebola duty in West Africa.

The top U.S. military officer says the Pentagon is beginning to consider ways to bring the Sunni Arab tribes of Iraq’s Anbar province more fully into the battle against the Islamic State group.