Topic: U.S. Armed Forces
The Pentagon said on Thursday it respected Yemen's sovereignty after a top official in Sanaa warned against any US military intervention in the country.Playing down its role in Yemen, the US military said it was focused on providing intelligence and training to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military could have captured or killed Osama bin Laden in 2001 if it had launched a concerted attack on his hideout in Afghanistan, according to a report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.The report, written by ...
The security services of Iraq's northern Kurdish area said Saturday they had arrested a key Al-Qaeda figure allegedly behind a string of bomb attacks, in an operation backed by the US military.An official statement named the suspect as Muthanna Hani Nassar and ...
A suicide blast struck near a US military base in the Afghan capital on Friday, officials said. Copyright 2009 AFP South Asian Edition
Gaining the upper hand against Al-Qaeda in Iraq has required a big US military force coupled with manhunts against militant leaders, the American commander there said on Thursday. "You have to have both combined," General Ray Odierno, the commander of US forces ...
2 NC terrorism suspects plotted against military, had maps of Marine baseTwo North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to kill U.S. military personnel and one of them obtained maps of a Marine Corps base in Virginia to plan an attack, prosecutors said Thursday.A ...
5 US troops among 50 killed in spate of Afghan violence; 20 civilians killed by roadside bombsAbout 50 civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a wave of violence around Afghanistan, including a bomb that left 14 Afghan travelers dead in ...
US military says roadside bombs kill 4 American soldiers in northern Iraq and BaghdadThe U.S. military says four American soldiers have been killed by roadside bombs in northern Iraq and Baghdad.Three soldiers with the Multi-National Corps - Iraq died Tuesday when an ...
The actor Will Smith is no one's image of a suicide bomber. The scholarly work on suicide bombers is large and growing. If, however, we have our own rich tradition of suicide bombers - and our own unfortunate tendency to kill civilians ...
Top US military wonders whether Baghdad blasts might indicate future sectarian violenceThe chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says he's extremely concerned by last week's deadly bombings in Baghdad.Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer, says the big question is ...