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CIA Director John Brennan says a 28-page secret chapter from a congressional inquiry into 9/11 contains preliminary information about possible Saudi links to the attackers that hadn't been corroborated or checked out at the time.

Wiping away tears, Paletha Keaton hugged her husband, Staff Sergeant Joe Keaton, before he boarded a charter bus heading toward Sioux City, Iowa, to be deployed for the second time.

An appeals court has cleared the way for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's legal case to resume, rejecting prosecutors' arguments that defense attorneys were given too much leeway on accessing classified documents.

he Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding came together Saturday with second lady Jill Biden to celebrate an early construction milestone for the attack submarine Delaware.

Syria's military extended a unilateral cease-fire around the capital for another 24 hours on Sunday, as relative calm set in across much of the country after days of heavy fighting concentrated in the northern city of Aleppo.

Two brothers from suburban New York City have each been awarded a Bronze Star for their service in Afghanistan.

Mental health is often associated with a stigma and within the United States’ Marine Corps, that stigma is heightened by a need to eliminate weakness.

President Barack Obama's daughter Malia will take a year off after graduating high school in June before enrolling at Harvard University in 2017, a year later than had been widely expected, the president and his wife said in a long-awaited announcement Sunday.

Bill Cook gazes upon fields of strawberries and, in his mind’s eye, he sees thousands of his Marine brothers leaving for Vietnam, never to return. He also sees hallowed ground – and an opportunity for healing, homecoming and honor.

It was a snub heard 'round the world, sparking allegations that the Department of Defense prefers shoes made in Vietnam and Malaysia rather than in American hometowns.

The children died far from their families, stricken by tuberculosis, flu, and loneliness, buried on the grounds of what was then the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, today the Army War College. Now there's a chance that some will be sent home to their tribes.

Jonathan Mossberg is among a small number of pioneers looking to build a safer gun. But unlike many others, he was in the gun business when he started down that path.

North Korea is preparing to hold a once-in-a-generation congress of its ruling party that is intended to rally the nation behind leader Kim Jong Un and could provide an important glimpse into Kim's plans for the country's economy and military.

A car bomb struck the entrance of a Turkish police station Sunday in the southern city of Gaziantep, killing two police officers and wounding 22 other people in a day marred by violence and May Day protests.

A car bomb struck the entrance of a Turkish police station Sunday in the southern city of Gaziantep, killing two police officers and wounding 22 other people, according to the state-run Anadolu Agency.

Scrambling to resuscitate a nearly dead truce in Syria, the Obama administration has again been forced to turn to Russia for help, with little hope for the desired U.S. outcome.

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Each of the men and women milling about in caps and gowns at the Gartenschau downtown on Saturday had stories about grit, sacrifice and sleep deprivation.

His defiant protests helped shape Americans' opposition to the Vietnam War. And they landed The Rev. Daniel Berrigan behind bars. The Roman Catholic priest, writer and poet, who became a household name in the U.S. in the 1960s after being imprisoned for burning draft files in a protest against the war, died Saturday. He was 94.

The Ukrainian government says one soldier has been killed and several troops wounded in the country's east in what seems to be a violation of a recently brokered armistice.

Three deaths were reported Sunday in the fighting in eastern Ukraine despite a recently brokered armistice for Orthodox Easter.

Iraqi officials say separate car bombings in southern Iraq have killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens.

Two car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Sunday killed 31 people and wounded dozens, the latest in a series of large attacks claimed by the Islamic State group as the country grapples with a worsening political crisis.

Anti-government protesters disbanded at least temporarily Sunday from the heavily fortified Green Zone they had stormed a day earlier after the Islamic State group carried out its second major attack in Iraq in as many days - a pair of car bombs that killed more than 30 people.

Abu Sayyaf militants have freed 10 Indonesian crewmen who were seized at sea in March in the first of three attacks on tugboats that have sparked a regional maritime security alarm, officials said Sunday.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter will convene a special meeting Wednesday with key allies to examine new possible measures in the fight against the Islamic State group, U.S. European Command said.