A former American soldier has been convicted of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl before murdering her and her family, and may face the death sentence for his crimes. Relatives of Abeer al-Janabi, who attracted the fatal attention of Private First Class ...Read More
LONDON-A soldier in the British army in Afghanistan has described how he saved the lives of two comrades by picking up a live Taliban grenade and throwing it back toward the enemy. Rifleman James McKie says he scooped up the ...Read More
TORONTO - Canada asked the United States on Tuesday not to use any evidence gathered by Canadian officials in any future prosecution of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced late Tuesday that ...Read More
Toddlers are notoriously unruly, but here's a disciplinary tactic you probably haven't considered.
27-year-old soldier Joshua Tabor, stationed at Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington, told police he used the controversial torture technique on his four-year-old daughter after flying into a rage because ...Read More
TORONTO - Canada's Supreme Court will not force the government to seek the repatriation of the youngest detainee held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has steadfastly refused to request the return of Omar Khadr, the ...Read More
Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - Cite Soleil looks like a place where an American soldier might be expected to fight. An impossibly crowded warren of tin-roofed shacks, open sewers and blind alleys, it is one of the poorest slums in ...Read More
The US has condemned a Taliban video of an American soldier captured by the militants in Afghanistan last June as an affront to his family at Christmas. The man in the film, identifying himself as Private Bowe Robert Bergdahl, criticises the ...Read More
KUWAIT CITY -- The U.S. military says an American soldier has been killed in an accident in Kuwait. The brief statement says the accident, which took place on Thursday, is under investigation. There were no further details. The name of the deceased ...Read More
(BAGHDAD) — Roadside bombs killed four U.S. soldiers Tuesday in separate incidents in Iraq, the military said, in one of the most deadly days for American troops in weeks. In the first incident, a roadside bomb struck a patrol in southern ...Read More
"We are facing tough challenges in America, with some seeming to just be hell-bent maybe on tearing down our nation, perpetuating some pessimism and suggesting American apologetics..." Sarah Palin, in her farewell speech as Alaska's governor "So how 'bout, in honor of ...Read More
Department of Defense officials confirmed the identity of a captured American soldier in a video posted online Saturday by the Taliban. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, 23, of Hailey, Idaho, went missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan on June 30. On July ...Read More
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that an American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. The Defense Department released the ...Read More
KABUL (Reuters) - A civilian helicopter crash that killed 16 people at a NATO base in southern Afghanistan pushed up the death toll on Sunday in the U.S. and allied effort to break the Taliban, adding to pressure on Washington ...Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan, and was later confirmed captured, appears on a video posted yesterday to a Web site by the Taliban, two U.S. defense officials confirmed.The ...Read More
WASHINGTON - The American soldier who went missing June 30from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmedcaptured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a web site by theTaliban, two U.S. defense officials confirmed. The soldier is shown in ...Read More
Reporting from Kabul and Istanbul -- An American soldier is believed to have been captured by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said today. The soldier has been missing from his unit since Tuesday, said Army Capt. Elizabeth Mathias. Citing ...Read More
An American soldier has been captured in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The soldier went missing on Tuesday, Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said told The Associated Press. She said she could not provide further information. The military was using "all ...Read More
A former glamour model has confessed in court to bigamy after she wed her fifth husband. Emily Jane Horne, 30, today admitted in a Manchester court to getting married for the fifth time - while still wed to her previous 'husbands'. She ...Read More
Pte McLaren's commanding officer paid tribute to his courage during the battle Tributes have been paid to a 20-year-old soldier from the Isle of Mull who has died during operations in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Private Robert McLaren, from The Black Watch, ...Read More
The man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller suffers from two mental illnesses marked by delusions of grandeur and narcissism, a forensic psychologist testified yesterday in a pretrial hearing that gave a preview of the alleged con man's insanity defense. Testifying outside ...Read More
(Recasts with family's reaction) MAHMUDIYA, Iraq, May 22 (Reuters) - Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who was raped and killed along with her family by U.S. soldiers expressed outrage on Friday that the ringleader received a life sentence in a U.S. ...Read More
