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US: 2 Chinese jets conduct unsafe intercept of Navy aircraft

Two Chinese aircraft conducted an unprofessional intercept of a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea, the ...

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Pence: Trump Will Be 'Best Friend' to Military

Vice President Mike Pence told the graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy Friday that President Trump will "always have ...

Once at risk of extinction, iconic Warthog plane lives on

The Warthog is sitting pretty. Once on the brink of forced retirement, the A-10 attack plane with the ungainly shape and odd ...

Key dates in Sri Lanka's contributions to UN peacekeeping

Sri Lanka participated in years of U.N. peacekeeping operations while the country was embroiled in a brutal, generation-long ...

Hassan Rouhani, Mohammad Javad Zarif

AP Analysis: Rouhani's hardest challenge may be Iran's hopes

For Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, winning re-election may have been the easy part. His wide-margin victory over a ...

Beijing protests US Navy patrol through South China Sea

China protested a U.S. Navy patrol that sent a guided missile destroyer near a group of man-made islands in the South China ...

Clashes between US troops, al-Qaida militants in Yemen

U.S. helicopters airlifted soldiers to a central Yemeni province where they targeted an al-Qaida compound, clashing with ...

Prayuth Chan-ocha

3 years after coup, Thailand sees sporadic, unnerving unrest

Three years after military leaders overthrew a democratically elected government in Thailand, the country is sputtering ...

Report: Lebanon detains Iraqi allegedly spying for Israel

Lebanon's state-run news agency is reporting that security forces have detained an Iraqi citizen who was allegedly spying for ...

Donald Trump, Melania Trump

Trump to head overseas without announcing new FBI director

After saying he was "very close" to naming a new FBI director, President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One on Friday for his ...

Colombians seek probe of Chiquita execs for terror funding

Human rights groups in Colombia are calling on the International Criminal Court to investigate executives from Chiquita ...

Chelsea Manning 'looking forward to so much' after release

Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, spared by presidential clemency from the rest of a 35-year prison term for giving classified ...

Puerto Rico militant leader emerges from 36 years in custody

Puerto Rico nationalist Oscar Lopez Rivera emerged from house arrest Wednesday and was celebrated by supporters after decades ...

Donald Trump

Trump lashes out at critics, 'naysayers,' unfair treatment

President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at his "critics and naysayers" following more than a week of negative news ...

Suspected al-Shabab attack kills official in Kenya's north

Gunmen suspected to be al-Shabab Islamic extremists killed an administrative chief in an attack in Kenya's north that left ...

North Korea: New long-range missile can carry heavy nuke

North Korea on Monday boasted it successfully launched a new type of "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a ...

UN forces retake strategic areas of C. African Republic city

United Nations peacekeeping forces in Central African Republic retook strategic points of Bangassou Monday after armed rebels ...

Military unrest, gunfire paralyze city areas in Ivory Coast

Gunfire and continued threats by mutinous soldiers in several cities in Ivory Coast led banks, schools and businesses to ...

Robert B. Neller

New TV ad shows Marines looking for a few good women

A Marine in full combat gear moves through dark, frigid water, gripping an M-16 rifle, before plunging under barbed wire and ...

Donald Trump, Sean Spicer

Sean Spicer missing from briefings during key week for Trump

If you've been missing your daily dose of White House press secretary Sean Spicer, it's because President Donald Trump's ...