The honors were late but still well-received Wednesday for members of the first all-African-American, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II.
A U.S. Army medic was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering four detainees in Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman in Germany said.
A third soldier who signed on to a 2007 newspaper column criticizing the war in Iraq has died.
Regrowing a fingertip cut off in an accident sounds like something from a futuristic movie. But with innovative technology developed by the U.S. Army, such regrowth is possible today.
Watching Army Chief of Staff George Casey swear in his newest fellow four star -- the first woman to achieve the Army's highest rank -- it was hard not to feel something truly historic was happening before your eyes.
The Gateway (Monroeville, Pa.) Gators are chomping their way through the Keystone State. With a defense anchored by two Ohio State recruits (Dorian Bell and Corey Brown), no team has come within 28 points of Terry Smith's squad. Both future Buckeyes were also named to the U.S. Army All-American Game last week.
The U.S. Army has charged three soldiers with murder for their role in the killing of Iraqis last year
A U.S. Army program in which soldiers pay cash to Iraqis to help with expenses, large and small, has spent $2.8 billion in five years, The Washington Post reported
America's first female four-star general has been nominated, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"General Ali" has helped make the Lutufiyah area, once one of the most dangerous in the country, one of Iraq's safest. Can his model be replicated elsewhere?
The honors were late but still well-received Wednesday for members of the first all-African-American, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II.
A U.S. Army medic was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering four detainees in Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman in Germany said.
A third soldier who signed on to a 2007 newspaper column criticizing the war in Iraq has died.
Regrowing a fingertip cut off in an accident sounds like something from a futuristic movie. But with innovative technology developed by the U.S. Army, such regrowth is possible today.
Watching Army Chief of Staff George Casey swear in his newest fellow four star -- the first woman to achieve the Army's highest rank -- it was hard not to feel something truly historic was happening before your eyes.
The Gateway (Monroeville, Pa.) Gators are chomping their way through the Keystone State. With a defense anchored by two Ohio State recruits (Dorian Bell and Corey Brown), no team has come within 28 points of Terry Smith's squad. Both future Buckeyes were also named to the U.S. Army All-American Game last week.
The U.S. Army has charged three soldiers with murder for their role in the killing of Iraqis last year
A U.S. Army program in which soldiers pay cash to Iraqis to help with expenses, large and small, has spent $2.8 billion in five years, The Washington Post reported
America's first female four-star general has been nominated, the Pentagon announced Monday.
"General Ali" has helped make the Lutufiyah area, once one of the most dangerous in the country, one of Iraq's safest. Can his model be replicated elsewhere?
U.S. Army Sgt. Jacque Keeslar lost both legs in Iraq nearly two years ago. To get around, he relies on a wheelchair and a pair of artificial legs, which help him walk in short bursts.
German police in a Bavarian town shot and killed a U.S. soldier overnight after what appeared to be a violent domestic incident, local police said.
A military court finds a U.S. soldier guilty of murdering an unarmed Iraqi, but pares down the sentence in apparent sympathy with his claim of exhaustion
Every day, five U.S. soldiers try to kill themselves. Before the Iraq war began, that figure was less than one suicide attempt a day.
Kevin Plank, the former Maryland football walk-on who founded Under Armour, didn't seem concerned on Saturday that the U.S. Army All-American Bowl had a seven-year head start on the fledgling Under Armour All-America game.
In the waning sunlight hour of a chilly winter afternoon, a chorus of Hebrew prayer rises from a small, fluorescent lit room on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Republican presidential candidates traded plenty of jabs during Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube debate. CNN.com viewers analyzed their answers for substance and truth and pointed out where candidates gave stellar responses or left their audience asking more questions. Below is a collection of their responses, some of which have been edited for length and clarity.
Many phones can play just about any video you want as long as you're willing to watch it on a 3-inch LCD. But a supplier of wearable displays for the U.S. Army wants to change that.
The Iranian parliament on Saturday voted to designate the United States' Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army as terrorist organizations, IRNA, the country's state-run news agency, reported.
A new study shows soaring rates of child abuse and neglect in military families after a parent's deployment
Thousands of anti-U.S. protesters marched in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Monday to mark the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
Wall Street struggled Tuesday as stocks fought for gains after surging but ultimately disappointing sales over the Christmas weekend.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR has agreed to pay $8 million to settle allegations the firm overcharged the U.S. Army for logistical support of military operations in the Balkans in 1999 and 2000.
About 57,000 U.S. troops will be sent to Iraq in early 2007 to maintain the current force levels there, Pentagon officials said Friday.
A former U.S. Army soldier was indicted Thursday on premeditated murder and other charges in connection with the rape and slaying of an Iraqi teenager and the deaths of her family members, federal authorities said.
In an assessment for a military journal, a U.S. Army officer who advised Iraqi troops concludes the goal of having Iraq control its security "will exceed" the new army's capability "for some time to come."
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While U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Daniel Hendrex was fighting the insurgency in Iraq near the Syrian border, help arrived from an unlikely ally: a 14-year-old Iraqi boy whose father was an insurgent.
Staying abreast of the latest technology isn't easy in a fast-paced world, but Booz Allen Hamilton may have found the perfect way to ensure that its workers keep up. The $3.7 billion consulting gia...
The U.S. Army has ordered an investigation into the deaths of an Iraqi family of four at their home in Mahmoudiya, a town south of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said Friday.
Three members of the 101st Airborne Division have been charged with murder in the May shooting deaths of three Iraqi prisoners, the U.S. military announced Monday.
U.S. and Iraqi troops killed more than 100 insurgents last week in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday.
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made their surprise visits to Baghdad on Wednesday, many of the troops stationed north of Baghdad, in Balad and Dujail, say either they didn't know about it or didn't care.
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The U.S. Army discovered scores of detainees in poor health at a building run by the Iraqi Interior Ministry during a search for a missing 15-year-old boy, a U.S. general said Monday.
The U.S. military and the Afghan government say they are investigating allegations that U.S. soldiers desecrated the bodies of dead Taliban fighters by burning them.
More troops are headed to Iraq, this time 1,500 paratroopers to temporarily boost military strength during the fall election, the Pentagon has announced.
The Pentagon will investigate the use of a quote from an anonymous Iraqi that was issued almost unaltered in a second news release referring to a separate incident, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The U.S. military expressed regret Monday for issuing news releases about two separate attacks in Iraq that included almost identical quotes attributed to an unidentified Iraqi.
The U.S. military on Sunday said it was looking into how virtually identical quotations ended up in two of its news releases about different insurgent attacks.
Iraq's political process inched forward as the violence continued Tuesday, with one U.S. soldier killed, the fourth American in two days. An Iraqi soldier, an Iraqi civilian and eight insurgents were also killed in separate incidents.
For U.S. troops heading to Iraq the drive from Kuwait is dangerous.
Iraqi police said Monday they have arrested the man responsible for a 2003 bombing in southern Iraq that killed a leading Shiite cleric and more than 80 others.
Two Americans working for a company that provides security for the U.S. Embassy were killed by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad, the embassy said Sunday.
Bombers struck two Iraqi security targets on Thursday, killing five police officers near the Interior Ministry in Baghdad and another person in front of a police headquarters in Baquba, authorities said.
Seven suspected insurgents were being held in connection with a rocket attack on the U.S. Embassy in central Baghdad that killed an American military service member and a civilian, U.S. military officials said.
Thirty Marines and a Navy corpsman were killed in a helicopter crash near Iraq's border with Jordan, bringing the number of U.S. troops killed Wednesday to 37 -- the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the start of the war in Iraq.
Six people were killed when a minibus carrying Iraqi civilians collided head-on with a U.S. tank near Muqdadiyah, Iraq, a military spokesman said.
At least five people were killed when a coalition F-16 mistakenly bombed a house south of Mosul, Iraq, the U.S. military said Saturday.
A U.S. Army sergeant was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter but convicted of assault in a case involving two civilians forced to jump off a bridge in Samarra, Iraq, one year ago, the U.S. military said Saturday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has ordered a review of the security situation in Iraq amid concerns over the elections scheduled for January 30.
A mortar attack Saturday on an Iraqi voter registration site north of Baghdad killed an Iraqi civilian and wounded eight others, a U.S. Army spokesman said.
U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins, who spent almost 40 years living in North Korea as a U.S. Army deserter, is starting a new life.
The mystery of the missing cache of Iraq high explosives continued Wednesday, with various explanations -- but still no hard evidence -- offered as to what happened to them, and when.
A U.S. Army captain has been relieved of command at her request over an incident last week in which some reservists refused to drive a fuel convoy on a dangerous mission, Pentagon officials told CNN.
The highest-ranking U.S. soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to five charges of abusing Iraqi detainees.
U.S. Army leaders have been asked to shorten the tour of duty for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, though no changes would be made until the insurgency in Iraq is brought under control.
Three U.S. Navy SEALs have been charged with maltreating an Iraqi detainee who died after he was turned over to the U.S. Army in Mosul in April 2004, the Navy said Friday.
U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Robert Jenkins -- accused of defecting to North Korea 39 years ago -- is back on active duty Saturday after voluntarily turning himself at a military base in Japan.
For every American killed in Iraq, there are many left to grieve at home.
Iraqi National Guard soldiers, supported by U.S. forces, killed 13 insurgents Sunday in a battle northeast of Baghdad, according to the U.S. military.
Charles Robert Jenkins, a U.S. Army sergeant accused of defecting to North Korea 39 years ago, is facing serious health problems and may head to Japan for medical treatment. If he does, the United States will seek to take him into custody.
Charles Robert Jenkins was on patrol with the U.S. Army unit near Korea's De-Militarized Zone in 1965 when he vanished after investigating a noise.
The U.S. Army has filed criminal charges against four soldiers who are accused of forcing two Iraqis to jump from a bridge over the Tigris River.
As Iraq's interim government took legal custody of the country's ousted regime Wednesday, a U.S. Army commander said there wasn't enough hate in Iraq to fuel a civil war.
A soldier with the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division died of wounds suffered in combat Friday evening north of Baghdad, according to the Coalition Press Information Center.
The U.S. soldiers who shot down a British warplane during the invasion of Iraq believed an enemy missile was heading for them, separate U.S. and British investigations reported.
Two U.S. sailors died Saturday after a small boat they boarded off Basra, Iraq, exploded, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said.
City by city, insurgents and coalition forces slugged it out with lethal intensity on Wednesday.
Top U.S. officials in Baghdad Thursday decried the killings of four U.S. security contractors in Fallujah, vowed to hunt down the perpetrators and promised to pacify the restive anti-U.S. hotbed.
A rocket attack in the vicinity of Baghdad's Green Zone has killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded at least five others, U.S. military and hospital sources said.
Six U.S. soldiers have been charged with offenses related to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at an Iraqi prison, the U.S. Army said Saturday.
Criminal charges are being prepared against six U.S. Army soldiers for alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Gharib prison in Baghdad, U.S. military officials told CNN.
Insurgents chose a "soft target" impossible to defend against when they bombed a Baghdad hotel Wednesday, one Iraqi leader said.
A leading Shiite on the Iraqi Governing Council voiced concerns Tuesday about Iraq's interim constitution but said he is now focusing on developing a government to carry the country into sovereignty this summer.
The commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq is predicting more violence as the United States prepares to hand over the country to Iraqis but said he thinks civil war is unlikely.
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld received a firsthand look Monday at Iraqi security forces, but coalition officials told him the Iraqis are not ready yet to secure the country on their own.
A bomb that killed at least 50 people near an Iraqi police station on Tuesday had some "fingerprints" of al Qaeda, a U.S. Army spokesman said.
Two bombings in Iraq on Saturday killed 12 people, including three U.S. soldiers, and wounded at least 45 others, according to the U.S. military and news agency reports.
Two pilots of a crashed U.S. Army helicopter were missing Sunday, after they crashed into the Tigris River near downtown Mosul in northern Iraq, a U.S. military source said.
It's that time of year when many people start trying to get into shape, but it may be more difficult for women than men.
The number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war passed 500 on Saturday when three American soldiers died in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad.
Crowds of Iraqis have been protesting the killings of at least five people by police and British troops.
British troops and Iraqi police shot and killed five people when a Saturday morning protest in southern Iraq over jobs turned violent, a British military official in Basra said.
A man on a bicycle packed with explosives blew himself up in front of a mosque during Friday prayers in the eastern Iraqi town of Ba'qubah, killing four people and wounding dozens, U.S.-led coalition officials said.
Insurgent fire downed a U.S. Army helicopter near the Iraqi town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, killing an American soldier and wounding another, a coalition military spokesman said.
U.S. Army Capt. Leif Espeland has seen it all--and not just on Iraq's dusty battlefields. The Army chaplain, a Minnesotan serving in the Fourth Infantry Division, frequently consoles young, idealis...
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