Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today (May 31, 2014) announced that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Afghan captors have released him to the U.S. military after taking him prisoner nearly five years ago while he was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Bergdahl, at…
The United States is sending about 1,000 Marines on the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan to Libya’s coast as the security situation deteriorates in that nation. The Marines are trained in a number of contingency missions, including TRAPS (Tactical Recovery…
Approximately 80 U.S. Armed Forces personnel have deployed to Chad as part of U.S. efforts to locate and support the safe return of over 200 schoolgirls who are reported to have been kidnapped in Nigeria, the White House reported today.…
A total of 16 military personnel from U.S. Africa Command have joined the interdisciplinary team led by the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, to help in finding hundreds of kidnapped girls, a Pentagon spokesman said today.…
Contrary to reports from Russia, there is no evidence of any troop withdrawals from its shared border with Ukraine, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said today. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today that he had ordered troops to pull…
About 10 U.S. Africa Command military personnel will be part of a U.S. team assisting the Nigerian government in their efforts to find more than 250 schoolgirls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren…
