Military amputees show courage, strength and hope to inspire others during a charity softball game in Washington.
Four Humvees carrying 33 Mexican soldiers crossed the border into the United States, and officials on both sides say it was a harmless mistake.
Capt. Ademola Fabayo and Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez are both immigrants to the United States, both Marines and, most important of all, both heroes of a rare order.
The once-ubiquitous Humvee may become a rare sight in some parts of Afghanistan following a decision by the senior U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan to restrict the use of the vehicles in the field.
Once the Black Hawk helicopter was in the air, I saw the beauty of Baghdad. The city was alive. It was twinkling with the lights of homes, businesses, and the headlights of cars.
Vice President Biden arrived in Baghdad Friday to discuss Iraq's upcoming elections with Iraqi leaders.
CNN's Ivan Watson reports on how Haiti's earthquake has effected an island that escaped the ravages of the quake.
The fishing boat speeds over blue waters of the Caribbean, leaving behind the devastation of mainland Haiti. Pods of dolphins and flying fish dart over the frothy waves. Ahead lies an island of pristine beaches.
Senators are bringing home the bacon, but these pork projects are paid for with essential wartime money. Dana Bash reports.
President Obama campaigned on a vow to end wasteful spending, but even in a time of war and record deficits, pork still reigns on Capitol Hill.
Suspected militants attacked a truck depot in Peshawar near the border with the Khyber Agency in the country's restive tribal areas, destroying NATO supply trucks bound for Afghanistan, Peshawar police said.
The U.S. Marine Corps knew of the threat posed by roadside bombs before the start of the Iraq war, yet did nothing to buy protective vehicles for troops, according to a report to be released by the Pentagon.
Two U.S. military Humvees are missing after suspected Taliban militants attacked a transport convoy carrying equipment destined for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, U.S. military and local officials said Tuesday.
By Sunday, thousands of people had evacuated New Orleans, leaving behind a shell of a city.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Julian believed in America's mission in Iraq.
A Marine who survived being burned over more than 95 percent of his body in Iraq and established a charity to help burned children has died, the military has announced.
A Marine who survived being burned over more than 95 percent of his body in Iraq has died. KABB's James Keith reports.
U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mario Ramos-Villalta flashes a broad smile from beneath his camouflage cap as he talks about the country he loves and why he became a Marine.
Mario Ramos-Villalta, a citizen of El Salvador, describes his experiences in Iraq as a U.S. Marine.
Army Sgt. Nick Paupore was in the lead Humvee in a convoy rolling through Kirkuk City, Iraq, when the vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
On Scene: After a massive detonation of rebel explosives, the U.S. checks out clues to the activities of Mosul's insurgency
Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006. He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.
A federal court has ordered a Kuwait-based contractor to pay nearly $5 million in damages to the family of a U.S. military officer killed in Iraq -- a rare court decision holding a contracting company accountable for its actions in the war.
It takes a few moments to notice the dent in Sgt. Dan Powers' head, a place where he was stabbed with a nine-inch blade while patrolling the streets of the Iraqi capital.
What does the "war on terror" mean for America's small businesses? A government report, released Wednesday, said that military operations related to the war could add as much as $1.7 trillion by the year 2017 to the hundreds of billions we already spend on defense.
On Scene: A TIME reporter fills a sandbag and tracks his small contribution to the battle in a remote corner of the war
On Scene: Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs, pose the most treacherous threat yet to US troops south of Baghdad
On Scene: Explosively Formed Penetrators, or EFPs, pose the most treacherous threat yet to U.S. troops south of Baghdad
A private contractor recorded his Humvee getting struck by a roadside bomb and gunfire as he was working in Iraq in October 2005.
Two contractors working in Iraq survive a roadside bomb attack near Baghdad in October 2005.
Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs are used by the military to provide nutritious and compact meals for the troops. The meals spark memories good and bad, for those who ate them in the military and even for some civilians who used them during disasters, when food was not readily available.
The Army said Tuesday that it will begin testing a nonmetal Humvee that is 900 pounds lighter than its conventional counterpart so it can add extra armor to better protect soldiers from roadside bombs.
Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn celebrated her 1st birthday on Saturday with a lavish party hosted by dad Larry Birkhead at the home of Louisville, Ky., socialite Tricia Barnstable Brown.
The sound of mortar rounds in the distance draws the attention of the visitor in the Humvee backseat. The threats and potential threats much closer have the attention of the three members of Bravo Company taking CNN along for the mission.
Army Sgt. Chris Tucker is a textbook case of the wear and tear of multiple deployments to Iraq and the strain this remarkably frustrating war has been on the men and women who serve in it.
The standoff between President Bush and congressional Democrats over a war funding bill already is delaying some military training and orders for spare parts, Pentagon officials said.
AM General, which has a contract with General Motors to produce the Hummer H2, announced it would lay off 160 of 500 employees from its Mishawaka, Ind., plant due to a leveling off in the vehicle's popularity, according to General Motors spokeswoman, Dayna Hart.
Chilling scenes from a videotape made by insurgents show the work of snipers in Iraq, targeting and killing American troops, taking them down with a single bullet from a high-powered rifle.
Time's Michael Weisskopf lost his hand in Baghdad, Iraq, trying to toss a live grenade out of the Humvee in which he'd been traveling. In an extract from his new book "Blood Brothers," Weisskopf recalls his story.
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a massive suicide car bombing that killed at least 18 people -- including two U.S. soldiers -- near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
One afternoon in the first week after I'd been taken -- and I'd been moved to yet another house -- Abu Ali called me into a big sitting room with green velveteen couches. On the far wall, above the TV, was a gigantic poster of waterfalls and rocks and trees.
The mission changes for Charlie Company seconds after the soldiers roll off the base.
Lance Corporal Ted "Joey" Boudreaux Jr. was bored.
Coalition forces expanded the search Sunday for two U.S. soldiers seized Friday by insurgents at a checkpoint southwest of Baghdad, officials said.
Iraqi witnesses say they saw two U.S. soldiers who survived an attack at a checkpoint near Baghdad being led away by masked insurgents to a pair of cars, The New York Times is reporting in its Sunday edition.
A roadside bomb attack Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded another American soldier and an Afghan interpreter, the U.S. military said.
Cpl. Pat Tillman died April 22, 2004, in Afghanistan, shot down in a confusing firefight on a dusty ridge in a war he gave up a lucrative NFL career to fight.
Ten civilians were killed Tuesday when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy carrying the governor of Anbar province, a U.S. military source said.
U.S. and Iraqi troops scoured areas around Samarra north of the Iraqi capital Friday searching for insurgents as part of Operation Swarmer.
Afghan police and soldiers surrounded the nation's highest security prison after an uprising broke out in three sections containing hundreds of inmates.
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A U.S. Humvee struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province Monday, killing four U.S. service members, the U.S. military said.
"Goddamned son of a bitch!" The soldier's shouting woke me up. I was riding in the back of a Humvee heading from Baquba to Baghdad when a rock nearly hit the gunner whose head was sticking out the roof. The rock was thrown by a kid, one of many rocks I saw being thrown.
"It's going to be a good day."
A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people and wounded 25 others Thursday on a bus in Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
A roadside bomb tore through a Humvee in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing a U.S. service member and an Afghan interpreter, according to the U.S. military.
The two men were good friends at Forward Operating Base Falcon in Babil province, each commanding units at the base in what's called Iraq's "Triangle of Death."
The U.S. military said Monday that coalition forces launched a series of airstrikes Sunday in and around Ramadi, killing "an estimated 70 terrorists."
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"Ma'am, you know your cameraman is in the kill-zone?" That was just a small reminder of the danger we were in, from a Marine driving the Humvee I was in.
A top general in charge of logistics in Iraq said that although roadside bomb attacks on his convoys have doubled over last the year, fewer people have been killed or hurt.
Two U.S. service members drowned after their Humvee slid into a river near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, the military said Friday.
The Business 2.0 100 is more than just a snapshot of American business today; it's also a savvy predictor of where we're headed. That's because the B2 100 concentrates exclusively on the engine of ...
I cannot recall being this angry.
If there's one thing that could help hybrid vehicles shed their image as the ride of choice for tree-hugging peacenicks, it's the U.S. Army using them to barrel across the desert in some forlorn location where no Prius would dare tread.
Live fireupdated: Wed Mar 30 2005 17:05:00
For U.S. troops heading to Iraq the drive from Kuwait is dangerous.
A storm that blew across the Midwest and East Coast was headed to Canada on Thursday, leaving more than 2 feet of snow in some areas and snarling holiday travel for many.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has joined other Republicans in criticizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The Florida company that retrofits U.S. Army Humvees with additional armor will increase production from 450 units a month to 550 by early 2005, the company said Friday night.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld faced tough questioning Wednesday from troops about to be deployed to Iraq.
Two Americans and a Briton were seized by kidnappers from their home in central Baghdad early Thursday, an Iraqi Ministry of Interior representative told CNN.
For every American killed in Iraq, there are many left to grieve at home.
Saddam Hussein faced an Iraqi judge Thursday on the grounds of one of the sprawling presidential palaces he built in Baghdad.
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Three Turkish citizens held hostage in Iraq have been freed by militants who had earlier threatened to behead them, the Turkish foreign minister has said.
While the world refocuses its attention to the G8 summit a few miles from here, the beaches are nearly empty, and the only people boating offshore are the police and Coast Guard.
A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded Monday near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar as American troops battled Taliban fighters along the rugged border with Pakistan, a U.S. commander said.
More than 50 coalition soldiers, most of them U.S. troops, crossed the Afghanistan border into Pakistan earlier this week, Pakistani intelligence sources have said.
The House passed unanimously a bill Wednesday to give financially strapped National Guard troops and reservists serving in Iraq and Afghanistan the ability to make penalty-free early withdrawals from their retirement funds.
As the soldiers of the 428th transportation Company, a National Guard unit, prepared to ship out for Iraq from their base at Fort Riley, Kan., a few months ago, they heard some disturbing stories a...
If ever there was an argument about why last year's invasion of Iraq wasn't a war for cheap oil, it can be found at service stations across California. In early March the cost of a gallon of gas in...
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and five wounded in Iraq Saturday when their armored Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. military said.
A roadside bomb in central Tikrit has killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded five others, according to the U.S. military.
Of more than 100 entries, only 15 robotic vehicles, ranging from a motorcycle to a mega-military truck, made the final cut.
When American troops conducted a night raid that led to the capture of Saddam Hussein in December, digital technology allowed Army commanders miles away to watch virtually every move.
Call it plug-and-play warfare. A network of small electronic devices carried aboard airborne drones and mud-caked Humvees could soon allow U.S. soldiers to create ubiquitous wireless networks from ...
Ever put yourself behind the wheel of a three-ton vehicle that stands 6 1/2 feet tall and looks ready to go to war against Saddam Hussein? Well, climb into the Hummer H2, an SUV with a giant public...
Firefights come out of nowhere and get intense in a hurry. So does Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden's new book about a 15-hour shootout in Mogadishu, Somalia. The tale starts with a Hail Mary, and befo...
People who drive Hummers like to boast that nothing can stop them. Their tanklike vehicles climb over fallen trees, ford streams, and plow through bogs with ease. But there is one stretch of terrai...
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