Renowned photojournalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Horst Faas, who spent years covering war's human dramas in the world's hotspots, has died, The Associated Press said Friday.
U.S. forces in military helicopters freed two hostages from pirates in a nighttime raid in Somalia.
The same elite Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden took part in a daring nighttime rescue in Somalia of two American and Danish foreign aid workers, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
John Kerry got Swift-boated. Jimmy Carter had his re-election chances decimated in the Iranian desert. Then there was Michael Dukakis and that tank photo.
Most of those killed on the helicopter that crashed in eastern Afghanistan overnight were a part of the fighting force known as the Navy SEALs, two U.S. government officials said.
What went into the making and training of Navy SEAL team six? CNN's Chris Lawrence found out.
No traces of Agent Orange were detected in tests around wells near a U.S. military base in South Korea, the first part of an ongoing probe, the U.S. 8th Army announced Friday.
CNN's Candy Crowley asks Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin if the fly-over mission in Libya will work.
It was sunny on Saturday in Washington, which was good news for Daniel Ellsberg. The most famous whistle-blower in American history was hoping to get arrested in the name of Bradley Manning.
Twenty-four hours a day, over six days, they're coming by the thousands to remember their hero.
The family of a man who fought alongside U.S. troops in Vietnam have been told their relative will not be allowed to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Police arrested more than a hundred protesters during an anti-war demonstration outside the White House fence Thursday.
The government has started distributing additional benefits for Agent Orange exposure to Vietnam War veterans who qualify under liberalized rules, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday.
More than 42 years after Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard L. Etchberger died on a Laotian mountaintop, President Barack Obama on Tuesday awarded him the Medal of Honor, saying, "It's never too late to do the right thing. It's never too late to pay tribute to our Vietnam veterans and their families."
President Obama will award the Medal of Honor, the military's highest award for bravery, to Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard Etchberger for his valor in saving the lives of three wounded comrades at a then-secret base in Laos in 1968, the White House announced Friday.
"War is politics by other means," wrote the Prussian philosopher of war Carl von Clausewitz. The career and resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal drives home an updated and equally profound truth: "War is PR by other means."
British media have leapt to the defense of beleaguered BP following attacks by the White House over its handling of the Gulf Coast disaster.
The Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon 35 years ago this week, but Hong Nguyen will never surrender.
U.S. Marines work to regain the trust of residents in Afghanistan after civilian deaths. CNN's Atia Abawi reports.
After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, U.S. Col. Harry Summers remarked to his North Vietnamese counterpart, "You know you never defeated us on the battlefield." After a moment, the North Vietnamese officer replied: "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant."
As President Obama announced he's sending more troops to Afghanistan, he also took on critics who made comparisons between the current situation and the war in Vietnam.
CNN's Chris Lawrence looks at rising anger over what some Afghans say is US interference.
While President Obama's war council deliberates its strategy toward Afghanistan, the ghost of Vietnam is often invoked as a warning.
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