military affairs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is deliberating whether to propose Selective Service changes that would make women eligible for the military draft, t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter will order the military to open all combat jobs to women, The Associated Press has learned, rebuffing a...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Security camera footage of a deadly Israeli arrest raid in a West Bank hospital on Thursday gave a rare glimpse into the murky underc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immediately after the U.S. killed at least 30 people in a devastating airstrike on a charity hospital, Afghanistan's national securi...

Ninety-seven years ago, an armistice ended World War I, which was then the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. Armistice Day became Veterans Da...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Friday that he will nominate longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army's new secretary. If ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The commandant of the Marine Corps has recommended that women be excluded from competing for certain front-line combat jobs, U.S. of...

PARIS (AP) — French authorities formally opened a terrorism investigation Tuesday after a thwarted attack on a high-speed train last week, saying the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After stirring up a furor with his dismissive remarks about John McCain's Vietnam war experience, Republican presidential candidate ...

CHICAGO (AP) — War-time suicide attempts in the Army are most common in newer enlisted soldiers who have not been deployed, while officers are less li...

HOT SPRINGS, S.D. (AP) — Perched atop a bluff in the remote Black Hills, a veterans hospital built of thick blocks of pink sandstone and topped with r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs said Thursday it faces a budget shortfall of more than $2.5 billion, mainly because of increased ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Dozens of senior Colombian army officers implicated in the killing of 3,000 civilians falsely claimed to be rebels a decade ag...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers linked to China have gained access to the sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel ...