U.S. Military

Drone program had largely run its course

2013-05-24 17:38:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama took pains to place the new restrictions on targeted killings he announced Thursday into the context of a broad reappraisal of the nation's anti-terrorism effort. Drones are not "a cure-all for terrorism," he said in...

Taliban attack international aid group in Afghanistan capital

2013-05-24 12:50:00

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group’s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&...

Torture, drones, indefinite detention breeding home-grown terror?

2013-05-24 05:00:00

The broad-daylight hacking death of a soldier in London this week was Britain’s Marathon Moment. Like the twin bombings at the race finish line in Boston last month, Wednesday’s attack by two machete-wielding men spouting venomous threats to...

Fourth U.S. drone victim influenced by Sept. 11, war

2013-05-23 16:02:00

WASHINGTON — In his early teens, Jude Kenan Mohammad was a familiar sight in his middle-class section of Raleigh, N.C., riding around on his bike to deliver groceries to elderly Muslim neighbors. But with an American mother and Pakistani father,...

Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban

2013-05-23 06:30:00

GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday’s vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift. Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday,...

Suicide bomb blast kills Afghan provincial leader, 12 others

2013-05-20 05:43:00

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomb blast killed a top leader of a northern Afghan province and at least 12 other people Monday, the latest in a step-up of attacks by Taliban insurgents ahead of Washington’s planned troop withdrawal at the end of...

12 killed as suicide car bomber hits NATO convoy in Kabul

2013-05-16 05:58:00

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful suicide car bomb rocked Kabul on Thursday, killing six foreigners and at least six Afghan civilians, according to local officials. The attack took place around 8 a.m., a time when many people in the Afghan capital were...

Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge

2013-05-17 09:23:00

Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...

Turkey leader to press Obama for greater U.S. role on Syria

2013-05-15 15:40:00

WASHINGTON — President Obama faces a fresh test Thursday of his determination to steer clear of the civil war in Syria when he considers a desperate plea from a longtime U.S. ally. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to urge...

Are multiple concussions driving suicides in the military?

2013-05-16 06:00:00

The U.S. military has faced two epidemics over the last decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq. One is suicide. The annual rate of military personnel taking their own lives has doubled to about 20 per 100,000. That translated to a record 324 suicides...

Military's record on sexual assault: From bad to worse

2013-05-15 11:07:00

Another day, another military sexual assault scandal. On Tuesday, a week after the Air Force announced its chief of sexual assault prevention had been arrested in Arlington, Va.,�on suspicion of�drunkenly assaulting a woman in a parking lot, the Army...

Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria

2013-05-16 12:12:00

WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...

Hartford police officer Jim Elliott of Avon will be biking the circumference of Connecticut in 26 hours to raise money for the Newtown Memorial Fund. Although Elliott will make his ride on June 14, he is having a benefit for the charity this Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Russian Lady in Hartford.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

As a current-generation U.S. military aircraft, the Osprey features a "glass" cockpit in which most instruments have been replaced by displays capable of showing various types of data requested by its pilots.

2013-05-04 00:00:00

U.S. military and civilian personnel rush to board a Marine helicopter during the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon on April 29, 1975.

2013-05-03 18:48:01