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Two Serbian embassy staffers held hostage since November died in Friday's U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State camp in western Libya that killed dozens, Serbian officials said Saturday, questioning why the Americans did not appear to know that foreign captives were at the site.

The national security parole board has approved a former Osama bin Laden bodyguard for release to another country as the Pentagon-run panel works to accelerate reviews.

Warriors have only lost once since winter break; Vicenza and Bitburg girls finish regular seasons perfect.

Like the generals he fought under, Fred Wellman’s journey through one war would shape him for the next one, making him a stronger, harder and smarter seasoned leader. But it would also be his burden to bear.

Justice Antonin Scalia's funeral ceremony was largely free of the encomiums that mark the send-offs of Washington's political class. Instead, it followed the dictates of religion and placed the emphasis on the Christian promise of resurrection.

Though Dan Metzdorf's inspirational moments have made him a military legend, the narrative was much different when the freshly retired soldier sought out Limb Lab for assistance in 2015.

The Islamic State deployed snipers on rooftops in Fallujah on Saturday in an attempt to quell an insurrection by Sunni tribesmen, Iraqi officials said, a flare-up that appears to indicate the group's weakening grip on the city.

Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jordan on Saturday to discuss the worsening situation on the ground in Syria with King Abdullah II, as attempts to halt the fighting foundered and the United States expanded its military effort against Islamic State militants to Libya.

The Justice Department calculated that it held a winning hand — the passcode-locked Apple iPhone of a terrorist — when it went to a federal court in Riverside, California.

The fear that a punitive God is watching may have helped drive humanity's global expansion, a team of international researchers argues in a new paper.

The two rivals only faced off directly in one title bout as wrestlers from eight other DODDS-Europe programs earned berths on the championship stage.

Samuel Willenberg, the last survivor of Treblinka, the Nazi death camp where 875,000 people were killed, has died at the age of 93.

When beatings failed to bring him around, Fred Cherry's North Vietnamese jailers assigned a self-described "Southern white boy" as his cellmate, hoping that racial antipathy between the two men would weaken his resolve and produce a propaganda triumph for North Vietnam. The plan failed. The two men became fast and lifelong friends.

A U.S. Air Force veteran charged with trying to join the Islamic State will be among the first Americans to go on trial as a result of the U.S. government's pursuit of dozens of suspected sympathizers of the militant group.

Two Serbian embassy staffers held hostage since November are believed to have been killed in Friday's U.S. airstrikes on an Islamic State camp in western Libya, Serbia's foreign minister said Saturday.

First come the whispers, then accusations loud enough to raise alarms throughout Nigeria's northeastern villages ravaged by extremist violence. Next, people accused of being Boko Haram are rounded up, sometimes by the military, sometimes by a civilian self-defense force. Many are never seen again.

Major repairs aren't stopping Old Ironsides from commemorating the 201st anniversary of its final major battle of the War of 1812.

“We’ll hold their hand, reassure them it’s OK to die and let them know that they’re not alone,” said Nick Konz, a volunteer with No Veteran Dies Alone, a program that links volunteers with vets living out their final stanza in hospice care. “Somebody cares and appreciates what they did for us.”

The newly completed Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant rises in shiny splendor out of the prairie on the northeast corner of the depot, massive in scale and poised to begin the final mission of destroying 780,000 World War IIera munitions containing mustard agent.

Nationalist demonstrators in Ukraine have attacked two offices of Russian banks in the capital amid observances of the second anniversary of the protests that brought down the Russia-friendly president.

One Boy Scout from Pike Road's Troop 8 is nearing his goal of collecting 100 worn out American flags to retire for his Eagle Scout project. And while achieving such an admirable goal in impressive, it is made more so by the fact that he's only 12 years old.

A funeral Mass for Justice Antonin Scalia is scheduled to be celebrated at the nation's largest Roman Catholic church, a place where popes have prayed and millions of pilgrims and tourists have visited.

Syria's government says Turkish artillery shelling inside Syria is an "outrageous violation" of international law.

Siegfried S. "Sig" Hecker, a former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and internationally recognized expert in plutonium science and nuclear security, estimated Friday that leader Jong Un's regime has 10 to 16 nuclear weapons and described the North Korean arsenal as "an enormous threat."

The "Stars on Their Shoulders: Military Uniforms of the Twentieth Century" exhibit, now open at the Chisholm Trail Museum, highlights the evolution of U.S. Army and Air Force uniforms throughout that time period.