Pentagon: No Plans to Scale Back Military’s Ebola Response The Pentagon has no immediate plans to scale back the military's efforts at combating Ebola in West Africa despite recent...
Benghazi Committee Gives Hillary Clinton More Time to Turn Over Emails The House select committee investigating the Benghazi attack has given former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton an...
After Benghazi, Corps Marks New Approach to Embassy Security in Africa Close to the third anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a small...
US Paratroopers Join Multinational Airborne Operations in Africa About 200 U.S. paratroopers recently got the chance to train with French and Gabonese paratroopers in Central Accord 2016.
US General Seeks Flexible Rules of Engagement for Somalia AfriCom commander Gen. Thomas Waldhauser is pressing for relaxed rules of engagement in Somalia.
Fourth US Soldier Was Killed in Niger Ambush Nigerien forces discovered the body of a fourth U.S. soldier killed in an ambush earlier this week, U.S. officials told Fox...
Marines Put On Standby to Respond to Egypt Unrest Marines are poised to protect or evacuate U.S. citizens and the U.S. Embassy amid the political unrest in Egypt.
US Sends Troops to Help Find Nigerian Girls A team from U.S. Africa Command was joining an international effort in the hunt for the kidnapped girls in Nigeria.
Pentagon to Set Up Ebola Field Hospital in Liberia Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved spending $22 million to set up a 25-bed field hospital in Liberia to treat...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
