PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump cast the United States assault on a Syrian air base as vital to deter future use of poison gas and called on other nations to join in seeking “to end the slaughter and…
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Navy recruiter faces another charge in murder plot
HORSEHEADS, N.Y. (AP) — A U.S. Navy recruiter in upstate New York is facing additional charges months after he was accused of plotting to have someone killed. State police say 30-year-old Brandon McPherson was arrested on an additional count of…
Unfriendly fire: History of US strikes that have killed civilians
The explosion in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last week, which residents say killed more than 100 civilians, may have been caused by a U.S. airstrike, making it potentially one of the deadliest attacks on civilians ever carried out…
US soldiers training at the first jungle school the Army has established in decades
HONOLULU — The U.S. Army soldiers finished wading across a stream in a rainforest in Hawaii, and they were soaked. Their boots and socks were water-logged and their clothes, hair and ears were caked with mud. The soldiers were going…
Sergeant charged for murder of two soldiers at Fort Stewart
HINESVILLE, Ga. — An Army sergeant has been charged in the slayings of two fellow soldiers found shot in an apartment outside Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia. Hinesville police said in a news release Thursday that 24-year-old Sgt. Shaquille Craig…
Two brothers, three others charged in scheme to overcharge US Army for Humvee parts
PITTSBURGH — Two brothers who own a military-supply business, a civilian Army employee and two others have been charged with a $6 million scheme to overcharge the Defense Department for Humvee window frames, federal prosecutors said Friday. Thomas Buckner, 65,…
