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Book: Obama hoped to try bin Laden, if captured
A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial, showing the U.S. commitment to due process under law, if the al-Qaida ...
Border Patrol agent shot, killed on duty in Ariz.
Investigators were scouring a rugged area near the U.S.-Mexico line looking for evidence in the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent. Nicholas Ivie ...
White House widening covert war in North Africa
Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Immigration
The issue: Illegal immigration is a decades-old problem. With an estimated 11.5 million illegal immigrants living, and in many cases working, in the U
US begins flying home deported Mexicans
The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed by ...
Border Patrol agent shot, killed on patrol in Ariz
A Border Patrol agent was shot to death Tuesday in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico line, the first fatal shooting of an agent since a deadly 2010 ...
Jordan charges 4 with trying to enter Syria
Jordan on Tuesday charged four men with illegally trying to cross into Syria after an exchange of gunfire with Jordanian border guards last week, a ...
Civilians struggle to check Pakistan army's power
The footage was startling: A group of what appeared to be Pakistani soldiers gunning down several blindfolded men in a forested area. As the clips ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Defense spending
The issue: Is the U.S. spending enough money on defense, and is it spending it in the right ways? In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks the ...
Sailors await resolution in prostitution scandal
Six months after members of the U.S. military and the Secret Service were embroiled in a prostitution scandal in Colombia, two Navy sailors have been ...
Divided town challenges Myanmar's democracy hopes
There are no Muslim faithful in most of this crumbling town's main mosques anymore, no Muslim students at its university. They're gone from the ...
US military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,000
The killing of an American serviceman in an exchange of fire with allied Afghan soldiers pushed U.S. military deaths in the war to 2,000, a cold ...
Many Iraq, Afghan vets choosing 'second service'
The link between U.S. military service and running for office is as old as the republic itself. It started with George Washington, who famously wrote ...
Border Patrol agent shoots, kills woman in Calif.
A Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 32-year-old mother of five Friday in suburban San Diego as he rode on the hood of her car after she ran into him, ...
Jury convicts Gulf cartel manager in drug case
A federal jury seated just across the Rio Grande from the Mexican Gulf cartel's historic base of power convicted one of its bosses Friday on charges ...
AP EXCLUSIVE: Study: UN misconduct goes unpunished
NEW YORK — When U.N. staffers on peacekeeping missions were accused of misconduct or corruption over the last couple of years, more than two-thirds ...
Mexico catches alleged drug capo 'El Taliban'
Mexican marines acting on U.S. intelligence seized the leader of a breakaway faction of the hyper-violent Zetas cartel, officials said Thursday, ...
US general charged with adultery, other sex crimes
An Army brigadier general who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and ...
Army 'stand down' focuses day on suicide training
In a service-wide "stand down," the Army has ordered soldiers to put aside their usual duties Thursday and spend the day on suicide prevention ...
Libya appoints military officers to head militias
Libya's military command appointed Monday a pair of army officers to head two powerful Islamist militias in the country's east, part of the ...
2 Marines to be court-martialed in urination case
Two Marine non-commissioned officers will be court-martialed for allegedly urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters last year in Afghanistan and ...
Taliban release video on Afghan base attackers
The Taliban published a video Monday they say shows insurgents preparing for the brazen attack on a major NATO base earlier this month, just as NATO ...
Correction: Syria story
In a story Sept. 22 about Syria, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a Syrian opposition conference headed by the National Coordination ...
Anti-militia protests show frailty of Libyan state
Residents of Libya's second-largest city warned on Saturday of a "revolution" to get rid of armed militias and Islamic extremists after protests ...
Woman takes helm following Air Force sex scandal
The Air Force handed the reins of basic training to a woman Friday following a sex scandal in which 42 female recruits say they were improperly ...