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Fighter jet crashes near Florida Air Force base
An Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet crashed near a Florida Panhandle highway Thursday, but the pilot was able to eject safely and there were no ...
Tampa socialite's base pass suspended
The military has suspended the Air Force base pass of the Tampa socialite who sparked an ongoing sex scandal . Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col.
Israel drawn into Syria fighting for first time
Israel was drawn into the fighting in neighboring Syria for the first time Sunday, firing warning shots across the border after an errant mortar shell ...
Car bomb near Iraqi military base kills 33
A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near an Iraqi military base as soldiers changed shifts north of Baghdad ...
Iran sets up new base near disputed islands
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards inaugurated a new naval base on Sunday to reinforce Tehran's authority over three Persian Gulf islands also ...
Coast Guard base preps recruits for daring rescues
At a new Coast Guard training facility here, rescue swimmers jump from a 12-foot tower into a wave pool as large fans blow 70 mph wind at them.
Syria truce collapse shows limits of diplomacy
Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions Sunday, flouting ...
Satellite images suggest airstrike on Sudan site
Satellite images of the aftermath of an explosion at a Sudanese weapons factory this past week suggest the site was hit in an airstrike, a U.S.
In veteran-heavy states, military issues magnified
The far-flung swing states that have the most sway in the presidential election have something else in common — a large share of military veterans who ...
Amnesty Int: Ivory Coast torturing detainees
Ivory Coast security officials are torturing dozens of detainees by administering electric shocks and other forms of abuse, Amnesty International ...
Weakened hurricane lashes Bahamas after 21 deaths
A weakened Hurricane Sandy lashed the central Bahamas late Thursday with violent winds and torrential rains, after raging through the Caribbean where ...
Use of chains denounced by accused in Guantanamo
The Guantanamo Bay prisoner charged with orchestrating the attack on the Navy destroyer USS Cole denounced his treatment at the hands of the U.S.
Surfer killed by shark off central California
A surfer was killed Tuesday by a shark off a beach at coastal Vandenberg Air Force Base following a summer of shark sightings along the Central ...
How 9/11 'mastermind' got an orange beard at Gitmo
The Pentagon has given a partial explanation to a Guantanamo mystery: How the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks managed to dye his ...
Defendants are no-shows in Gitmo Sept 11 case
A military tribunal in the Sept. 11 case is going forward at Guantanamo without any defendants. All five defendants chose to sit out the hearing for ...
Yeager re-enacts historic sound barrier flight
Sixty-five years after becoming the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager is still making noise
Syria accused of cluster bomb use in civil war
The Syrian regime was accused Sunday of dropping cluster bombs — indiscriminate scattershot munitions banned by most nations — in a new sign of ...
Va. escapes worst of recession but new fears ahead
Amid scenic horse farms, vineyards, Civil War landmarks and quaint shops tucked in historic red-brick buildings, signs of prosperity are plainly ...
Correction: Obama-China story
In a story Sept. 28 about a presidential decision to block a Chinese company's business deal in Oregon over national security concerns, The Associated ...
AP IMPACT: Air Force insiders foresaw F-22 woes
Years before F-22 pilots began getting dizzy in the cockpit, before one struggled to breathe as he tried to pull out of a fatal crash, before two more ...
Iran threatens attacks on US bases in event of war
A senior commander in Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned that Iran will target U.S. bases in the region in the event of war with Israel, ...
Panetta to meet with China leaders, tour navy base
A day after the U.S. forged an agreement to put a second missile defense radar system in Japan, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived Monday in ...
Israeli military moves major operations to south
The Israeli military has begun construction of its largest training base ever, moving operations from some of the country's priciest real estate to ...
Obama honors memory of Libya attack victims
Four Americans killed in an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya returned home Friday, their remains each carried in a slow procession by six Marines ...
US defense satellite launched from California
An Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office blasted off Thursday from the central California coast.