Headlines from Iraq
Buoyed by more recruiters, bigger bonuses and an elite reputation, the Marine Corps has grown by nearly 27,000 members in a little more than two years -- half the time that military officials believed it would take.
The number of roadside bombs and kidnappings doubled in Afghanistan in 2008 from the year previous, the U.S. ambassador said Tuesday, grim statistics that underscore the country's deteriorating security situation.
Thousands of troops will spend this holiday overseas. However, it was a Christmas wish fulfilled for one family in Crestwood, as Army Reservist and father of four, Ken Wash returned home from Iraq.
The Defense Department has identified one of two soldiers killed in a roadside bombing in Iraq as a 26-year-old North Texan.
A federal magistrate says five Blackwater Worldwide guards indicted for a 2007 attack in Baghdad can't argue their case in Utah and must report to a Washington courthouse.
President-elect Barack Obama has named a decorated Vietnam veteran as his choice to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.
War On Terrorism Headlines
America's first war crimes trial since World War II went to the jury Monday as a panel of six U.S. military officers began deliberating whether to send Osama bin Laden's former driver away for life.
Missouri National Guard Adjutant General King Sidwell addressed these issues Friday, when more troops deployed from Jefferson Barracks.
A 21-year-old soldier from Lebanon, Missouri died over the weekend in Afghanistan while in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.
A group of veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq brought their message to the St. Louis area.
A marine in southern California, who lost his leg in the Iraq war, is heading back into battle less than nine months after his injury.
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