WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon spokesman says the two U.S. soldiers killed Sunday in Iraq were casualties of a U.S. artillery “mishap.” The soldiers have been identified as 22-year-old Sgt. Allen L. Stigler Jr. of Arlington, Texas, and 30-year-old Sgt. Roshain E. Brooks of Brooklyn, New York. Both were canon crewmembers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 319th…
ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on the deadly military plane crash in Mississippi (all times local): 2:25 p.m. Seven of the U.S. troops killed in the Mississippi plane crash were special operations forces based at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Six were Marines and one was a sailor. The Marine Corps refueling…
BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — Federal authorities have confirmed an explosive device was set off outside an Air Force recruiting center near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bixby police say the blast was reported around 10:30 p.m. Monday. Bixby is about 15 miles (24.1…
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — A Jordanian soldier charged with killing three U.S. Army Green Berets told a military court on Tuesday that he opened fire because he thought fellow Jordanian troops had come under attack but that he felt no…
Navy personnel formed an honor line in Yokosuka, Japan on Tuesday, as family and shipmates of the seven sailors killed in a collision were escorted to a memorial ceremony. The sailors died when a cargo ship crashed into their Navy…
WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he thinks disclosure of America’s secret intelligence is on the rise, fueled partly by the “worship” of leakers like Edward Snowden. “In some ways, I do think it’s accelerated,” Pompeo told MSNBC…
