The US government is concerned a Supreme Court ruling about the legal rights of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, could see suspected terrorists walking...

Islamabad, July 4 : Pakistan Foreign Office has strongly reacted to top US military man Mike Mullen's recent statement regarding the US having a right to strike targets inside Pakistani territory. FO spokesman said in Islamabad that no body had the right to take action inside Pakistan in the war on...

President George W. Bush leads a group of military and civilian leaders and wounded warriors in a salute during the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center groundbreaking ceremony at Bethesda...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is doing...

A U.S. report said 43 U.S. soldiers of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Island origin have been killed in the Iraq war, Radio New Zealand International reported on Friday. The report, compiled by the U.S....

With the Post-9/11 Veterans Education Assistance Act of 2008 signed into law June 30, military members and veterans crave information on whether, when and how they will gain access to the richer...

The crash of bowling pins just got louder at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. A new 27,000-square-foot bowling and entertainment complex was slated to open on the north side of the air station...

The presumptive Democratic Party U.S. presidential nominee, Barack Obama, says he will begin ending U.S. troop involvement in the war in Iraq on his first day in office.Obama told reporters...

The U.S. military is about to begin construction on a new state-of-the-art medical facility in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports President Bush officiated at the official...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military's top officer warned Wednesday that an Israeli airstrike against Iran would make the Middle East more unstable and could add to the stress on overworked American forces...

Military officials from the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan are meeting again this week as part of a joint investigation into a cross-border engagement in June that killed 11 Pakistani...

7/3/2008 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- As oil prices continue to soar, Air Mobility Command officials here are looking for ways to lower the amount of aviation fuel used by the...

7/3/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Seldom in our nation's history has this anniversary fallen at so critical and dangerous a time.  Al-Qaida has been beaten back in Iraq, but it is not defeated....

An agreement was signed in February 1903 by Cuban President Estrada Palma and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leasing certain land and water areas in Guantanamo Bay for coaling (fueling) and a...

A 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team honor guard prepares to fire a volley Wednesday during a memorial service for Sgt. Ryan James...

7/3/2008 - SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AFPN) -- An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot from the 4th Fighter Wing here received the American Fighter Aces Association's Francis S. Gabreski Award...

7/3/2008 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- Since October 2001, more than 48,000 Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen have been aeromedically evacuated in support of the war on terrorism for...

Iraqi firemen respond to a simulated fire on an Iraqi C-130 June 16 at New Al Muthana Air Base, Iraq. The simulation was part of a ground emergency exercise to test the Iraqi's notification and...

7/3/2008 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations July 2,...

Workers help guide the 9,000-pound Apollo Boilerplate #1206 capsule onto a flatbed truck for transportation to a local refurbishment facility July 1 at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. On loan here to...

7/3/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- We mark the 232nd birthday of our nation this week, and proud citizens across the country will display the American flag throughout the Fourth of July weekend as a...

7/3/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Acting Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley directed the delay of the global wing organizational structure implementation July 2. The global wing...

Keith Stansell stands at the top of the cargo ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III, shortly before stepping onto U.S. soil at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, July 2. He was one of three U.S. contractors...

7/2/2008 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Air Education and Training Command officials welcomed their new commander in a change-of-command ceremony July 2 at Randolph Air Force Base. ...

An AC-130H Spectre gunship from the 16th Special Operations Squadron conducts a flyover at Arlington National Cemetary during a memorial service for Senior Master Sgt. James Caniford May 28. Sergeant...

Former Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. died June 28 at his home in Beverly, Mass. He was the ninth secretary of the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force...

7/2/2008 - ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Officials from the Air Force, Army and Navy are now funding a Finnish research program that explores new approaches for improving telecommunications network...

7/2/2008 - ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Approximately 200 California National Guard members were ordered by the state governor July 2 to provide direct ground support to the California Department of...

Although Army officials acknowledge it's a political non-starter, the Defense Department has resurrected the idea of transporting chemical weapons from Colorado and Oregon to Utah - a practice that...

For years, the military has insisted that there is no safer way to destroy its chemical weapons than the incineration process used at the Deseret Chemical Depot. But when the Pentagon floated the...

WASHINGTON (AP)— The Pentagon's inspector general is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight...

WASHINGTON -- Most overseas storage sites for U.S. nuclear weapons, particularly in Europe, need substantial improvements in physical security measures and the personnel who guard the weapons,...

Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Wednesday that an Israeli airstrike on Iran could destabilize the region and lead to political and economic chaos. He made the remarks...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's inspector general is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight office have...

The top U.S. military officer says more diplomacy is needed to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, because any military strike would have unforeseeable consequences and could end up...

The agreement being negotiated would be in effect only one or two years and it would not sanction any permanent U.S. bases, Zebari said at a news conference. "That's why this is not, as it has...

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A new sign inside the main gate at Misawa Air Base, Japan, posts more information about incidents involving driving under the influence of alcohol, including the consequences of such behavior. Misawa...

Han Chang-kweon, chairman of the Association of North Korean Defector Organizations, describes escaping North Korea in 1992. Han is one of approximately 13,500 defectors living in South...

Military trainers at Guantanamo Bay based an entire interrogation class on a chart of "coercive management techniques" copied from a decades old report on methods used to obtain confessions, many...

The U.S. Navy on Wednesday completed an unprecedented simulated ballistic missile exercise between ships operating in different bodies of water, Navy officials said. The five-day exercise, which...

Location: Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 2AJ. The nine-hole, par-3 golf course is off of Trumpington Road, about a mile south of the city center and two miles from junction 11 of the M11 motorway....

The female competitors at Ultrabodies IX flex their muscles at the show Saturday at RAF Mildenhall, which drew a crowd of 200 and was judged by professional bodybuilders from the British Natural...

Lingering hip problems are forcing a 9-year-old military working dog named Whiskey to retire later this summer. The German shepherd currently chills out at the 48th Security Forces Squadron kennel...

Former faculty members and alumni walk past abandoned classrooms in the vacant campus of London Central High School. Memories resurfaced as the small group toured the campus last...

How heartbreaking - this young man died for the country he loved so much - and not yet being awarded his citizenship. I hope that he will be allowed that privelege posthumously... For hes service,...

Posted on: Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 12:00 CDT Comtech Telecommunications has announced that its subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom has received orders totaling $5.6 million under its Movement...

An Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a high-risk move that could destabilize the Middle East, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday.At a Defense Department news conference,...

(Updates with Mullen comment on Straight of Hormuz) WASHINGTON (AFP)--Opening up a third front would be "extremely stressful" for the U.S. military, a top U.S. military chief said Wednesday amid...

Acting Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley held a town-hall style meeting with members of the Air Force Space Command July 1 at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. In his first visit to an Air...