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Some see it as a war that ended badly, even in victory. Others see it as a precursor to a global revolution in battle that led to a more dangerous world. Still more see it as a huge step in American leadership that assembled one of globe's largest coalitions. In just 100 hours' worth of fighting on the ground, the 1991 Persian Gulf War created enough opinions to fill decades.

The Cougars raised the trophy in dramatic circumstances after beating Sigonella 35-30 in double overtime.

During 25 years in the U.S. Army, Glen Cooper witnessed slaughter on a mass scale and lived with unrelenting tension in combat zones from Somalia to Iraq.

Thousands of South Koreans marched in the capital on Saturday to protest what they say are setbacks in personal freedoms and labor rights under conservative President Park Geun-hye.

Foreign ministers from the 10 countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations said Saturday that they were "seriously concerned" by recent developments in the disputed South China Sea region and will seek a meeting over the issue with China.

At least 12 people were killed and eight injured by a suicide attack near Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry on Saturday, the ministry said in a statement. An attack earlier in the day in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province left 13 dead and wounded 40.

Navy SEAL Edward Byers doesn't think fondly of books written by former SEALs that reveal secrets of their trade. “I’ve lived a very quiet life. I’m not exactly sure what their motives are and what they’re trying to accomplish by writing those. "I’ve never read their books," said Byers. "I have no plans in the future to write a book or do a movie or anything like that. It’s not what I believe in.”

A 2015 cyber hack of the IRS potentially gained access to personal data from more than 700,000 taxpayer accounts, more than double the total previously estimated, the tax agency said Friday.

Pasquale Battaglia never expected any credit for the years he spent with the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. But on Friday, the six medals he earned were brought, framed, to Ansonia City Hall by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal.

Lt. j.g. Chris Giglio says he’s long been a fan of Shakespeare. So he was in luck Friday when the final question on “Jeopardy!” involved the famed poet and playwright.

A suicide car bomb exploded Saturday on the edge of a government-held central town, killing two people and wounding four, hours after a cease-fire brought relative calm to parts of Syria, the state news agency and opposition activists said.

A sailor charged with attempted murder in the 2014 stabbing of another sailor at Portsmouth Naval Medical Center was found not guilty Friday by “lack of mental responsibility,” according to his attorney.

A watch commander assigned to the aircraft carrier Enterprise pleaded guilty Friday to secretly recording seven co-workers in a restroom, including his boss and at least two women he supervised.

Tilman Dunbar, Will Kelly and Kendall Knorr entered on the ground floor of a rebuilding effort for the Navy men's basketball program. Those three players were part of the first recruiting class head coach Ed DeChellis brought to Annapolis. Together they have helped lay a solid foundation for the program DeChellis is trying to create.

Ramstein Royals boys basketball coach Andrew O’Connor said Friday that Division I programs want to see his team lose.

One moment, the No. 1 seed Rota Admirals and No. 2 Black Forest Academy Falcons were entrenched in a well-played, evenly-matched DODDS-Europe Division II boys basketball championship game Saturday. A moment later, it was all but over.

Black Forest Academy was just too talented, too composed and too fast Saturday and the result was a DODDS-Europe Division II girls basketball title.

One of the best DODDS-Europe championship games of recent years ended Saturday with an overtime victory for one of two unbeaten teams that looked to be headed for a finals collision all season.

It’s not easy being on the golf team of the U.S. Military Academy, but no one goes to West Point for a life of leisure.

A 9/11 trial prosecutor dismissed a Muslim sensitivity argument Friday and urged a military judge to let female guards resume handling the former CIA detainees accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 hijackings to and from court and legal meetings.

An attack such as this one has long been a nightmare scenario for top U.S. officials. National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers has previously warned that it's not a matter of if, but when attackers will also target U.S. power systems.

Thousands of Saudi troops have been deployed along these desiccated hills, struggling to halt cross-border attacks by Yemeni rebels who fire rockets and carry out lethal ground incursions.

A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia came into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country's devastating conflict, but the Islamic State group and al-Qaida's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, were excluded.

The Raiders defeated SHAPE, while Ramstein eliminated top-seeded Naples.

The United Nations special envoy for Syria said Friday he plans to resume peace talks on March 7 if a cessation of hostilities negotiated by the United States and Russia and set to begin at midnight local time "largely holds."