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U.S. counter-terrorism missions will soon place more emphasis on a little-known Pentagon program designed to help 'surrogate forces,' rather than traditional allied units that are dependent on U.S. training, advice and assistance. ...

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs officials issued a formal announcement this week that they are 'providing a new and unprecedented level of transparency to lawmakers in Congress.' Democratic lawmakers are asking if that's the case, ...

New survey results underline several issues that were brought to the forefront last year for troops and families: some dissatisfaction with housing, stressful relocations, and problems with access to health care. More than 10,000 family members, ...

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers introduced new legislation Thursday designed to block President Donald Trump's rules regarding transgender troops by removing any limits to their service. ...

CUCUTA, Colombia — Trucks carrying U.S. humanitarian aid destined for Venezuela arrived Thursday at the Colombian border, where opposition leaders vowed to bring them into their troubled nation despite objections from embattled President Nicolas Maduro. ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon — The United States has cut some military aid to Cameroon over human rights concerns but the countries' relations remain excellent, the U.S. ambassador asserted Thursday, while the central African nation's government remained silent. France said it would not follow the U.S. ...

Troops agree with President Donald Trump that we should keep an eye on Iran — but that doesn't mean they want a big presence in Iraq to do so, the results of a recent Military Times poll suggest. On Sunday, Trump told CBS' 'Face the Nation' that he planned on moving the roughly 2, ...

A littoral combat ship is slated to deploy to the waters of U.S. Southern Command this year to battle drug smugglers, its top officer told lawmakers Thursday. SOUTHCOM commander Adm. ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— The new vice chairman of a Maryland legislative committee will deploy to Afghanistan 10 days before the legislative session closes. The Daily Record reports that Sen. Will Smith announced Wednesday that he's been called up to active duty effective March 29. ...

Some doctors use printers to produce patient records or referrals. Others use them to replicate human organs. That's what Dr. Beth Ripley is doing at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System in Washington. Granted, ...

A Norfolk-based junior officer entered a guilty plea at court-martial last week to charges involving sexual harassment and assault, according to charge sheets and officials. Lt. j.g. Ruben L. Anderson, an aerospace engineering duty officer with Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 26, ...

NORFOLK —Two Navy ships that collided yesterday afternoon during an underway replenishment in the Atlantic Ocean arrived a Naval Station Mayport in Florida on Wednesday so officials could assess the damage and probe what happened. ...

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KEY WEST, Fla. РІР‚' A Chinese student has been sentenced to a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegally taking photos of a U.S. military installation in the Florida Keys. A federal judge imposed the sentence Tuesday on 20-year-old Zhao Qianli. ...

Dogged by cost overruns, design glitches and debates about the vessel's ability to withstand modern sea battle, the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program has faced its share of controversy. ...

ANKARA, Turkey РІР‚' Turkey's president heavily criticized the U.S. on Tuesday over delays in establishing a buffer zone in Syria, saying that if Washington won't contribute to the effort, Ankara will do it alone. ...

TOKYO РІР‚' Japan announced Tuesday it has canceled a port call in South Korea by its main warship during a multilateral naval exercise as relations between the two Asian neighbors fall to their lowest level in recent years. ...

UNITED NATIONS РІР‚' North Korea's nuclear and missile programs 'remain intact' and its leaders are dispersing missile assembly and testing facilities to prevent 'decapitation' strikes, U.N. experts said in a new report. The experts' report to the Security Council, seen Tuesday by The Associated Press, ...

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WASHINGTON РІР‚' As President Donald Trump is expected to call for an end America's ongoing wars overseas, his top general in the Mideast said he was not consulted or warned Trump would declare a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria. 'I was not aware of the specific announcement. ...