Category Archives: VA News

The landmark repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ in 2011 allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military.

Transgender persons are barred from serving openly in the U.S. military but can do so in the armed forces of 18 other nations worldwide, including NATO allies Sweden and the United Kingdom as well as Australia and New Zealand.

Top US military planners want to expand the limited advise-and-assist mission in Iraq and are talking to allied partner nations about potentially putting non-American troops on the ground to help support the fight against Islamic State militants, according to several military officials.

A New York City police officer who suffered a serious head wound after being attacked by a former sailor wielding a hatchet remains in critical but stable condition, police said Friday.

The Obama administration is preparing to transfer a military detainee in Afghanistan for criminal trial in Virginia, U.S. officials said Thursday.

France’s military chief says an overnight air raid has destroyed an arms depot for the Islamic State group in Iraq.

A doctor who became New York City’s first Ebola patient was praised for getting treatment immediately upon showing symptoms, and health officials stressed that the nation’s most populous city need not fear his wide-ranging travel in the days before his il

A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced 27 people to prison for planning a series of attacks against U.S.

The Army is working to coordinate crisis response in Liberia

The first case of Ebola may have arrived in New York City.