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The survey, conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, is similar to one conducted on August 3 and 4, before Emperor Akihito indicated his desire to abdicate.

Lt. David Nartker, the commander of two U.S. patrol boats captured in January by Iran, will appeal his punishment for his role in the incident, the Navy confirmed Thursday.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

Lt. Cmdr. Thomas Browning, Lt. Cmdr. Kellen Smith and Lt. Matthew Halliwell were awarded for reacting in time to prevent the loss of an E-2C Hawkeye, assigned to the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 123, or “Screwtops.”

The highest U.S. military court has upheld the bad conduct discharge of a Marine whose case had climbed to the top of the legal system over the question of whether her religious freedom had been violated.

Lt. Gen. Vernon J. Kondra, now retired, was in charge of all military airlift operations. He said that the notion that Donald Trump personally arranged to help the stranded soldiers made little sense.

Gen. Wolters is stepping into a vastly different security environment than the one his predecessor faced, before Russia’s involvement in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State.

U.S. Central Command manipulated intelligence on the Islamic State group to provide an overly positive impression of progress in the war, a joint House task force said Thursday.

U.S. Central Command manipulated intelligence on the Islamic State group to provide an overly positive impression of progress in the war, a joint House task force said Thursday.

More than two million claims for private sector emergency healthcare services provided to VA-enrolled veterans since February 2010 could be eligible for VA reimbursement if a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is allowed to stand, the VA general counsel has warned.

Few airframes have lasted as long as the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker, which is commemorating the 60th anniversary of its first flight later this month.

Turkey would be willing to modify its anti-terror law if the changes don't impede the fight against terrorism and if Turkish citizens are guaranteed visa-free travel in Europe, Turkey's ambassador to the European Union said Thursday.

In a ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge William Orrick of California dismissed the suit, saying a federal law known as the Communications Decency Act, or CDA, protects Twitter from liability, but left the door open for the families to refile their case.

The cancellation of more than 2,000 Southwest Airlines flights due to a computer outage last month will cost the carrier an estimated $54 million.

Syrian activists said airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's de factor capital of Raqqa on Thursday killed at least 20 civilians in a new round of bombardment that came as Turkey called on Russia to carry out joint operations against Islamic State.

The John P. Murtha, a pre-commissioned amphibious transport dock, is scheduled to begin its journey to Pennsylvania on Thursday.

Ukraine's president ordered the army to be on combat alert Thursday on the country's de-facto border with Crimea and on the front line in eastern Ukraine following Moscow's accusations that Ukraine sent in "saboteurs" to carry out attacks in Crimea.

They had been waiting months for the return of the 4th Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade and the 764th Ordnance Company's 242nd Battalion, 71st Group, whose members were deployed to Afghanistan last year.

A Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State extremists has been killed as Canada's national police force thwarted what they believed was a suicide bomb plot, a senior police official said.

If you never heard Julius Falcon play "Taps," you may have tasted his homemade wine. The World War II Army veteran was known in the region for giving his fellow veterans their final honor: he played "Taps" at 6,623 military funerals. His wife of 67 years, Mary "Dolly" Falcon, kept a tally on a dry-erase board in their home, said daughter Mary Manley. Even after Mr. Falcon no longer had the lip strength to play, he made trumpet noises in his sleep at Westmoreland Manor and went through several roommates... Читать дальше...

Germany's interior minister on Thursday proposed stripping dual nationals who fight for extremist groups abroad of their German citizenship, and said he wants to make it easier to deport foreigners deemed to be dangerous.

A senior U.S. military official said Thursday that an advanced U.S. missile defense system that is to be deployed in South Korea will only target North Korea, not China.

This week, the Pentagon announced its intention to sell $1.5 billion in armaments, tanks, and military advisory support to Saudi Arabia. If that sounds like a major deal, consider that the United States sold more than $20 billion worth of military equipment and support to the Saudis last year. And this is an alliance that goes back decades.

Two Turkish military attaches working in Greece have fled the country for Italy after the failed military coup attempt, Turkey's foreign minister said Thursday, while reports said a naval officer based in the United States has also gone missing.

Two men who were reportedly killed in combat while fighting the Islamic State group in Syria left suburban Denver neighborhoods for a war zone because of camaraderie and an unshakeable drive to right an injustice, their families said Wednesday.