Israeli soldier’s manslaughter conviction divides country
The rare manslaughter conviction Wednesday of an Israeli soldier who fatally shot a badly wounded Palestinian attacker exposed a deepening rift between proponents of the rule of law and a burgeoning nationalist movement.
Mississippi soldier remembers D-Day
All Jim Livaudais has left from his service with the 82nd Airborne are his garrison cap, his decorations displayed in a shadow box and a few photos of him in uniform.
Officials: Concern for Bergdahl led to secrecy
Fears the Taliban might kill Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl if word leaked that he was being exchanged for five Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees drove the Obama administration not to notify Congress in advance about the deal, according to congressional and administration officials.
Bergdahl uproar halts plan for return celebration
There will be no hero’s welcome for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in his hometown, no fanfare of parades, music or picnics in the park.
Top military officer: Bergdahl case not closed
The nation’s top military officer said Tuesday the Army could still throw the book at Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the young soldier who walked away from his unit in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and into five years of captivity by the Taliban.
U.S. worried to very end about Bergdahl’s release
Right up until the moment Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was freed, U.S. officials weren’t sure the Taliban would really release the only American soldier held captive in Afghanistan in exchange for high-level militants detained at Guantanamo Bay.
Soldier freed from captivity in Afghanistan
The only American soldier held prisoner in Afghanistan has been freed by the Taliban in exchange for the release of five Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Obama administration officials said Saturday.
Is the Taliban ready to deal on captive U.S. soldier?
The captors of an American soldier held for nearly five years in Afghanistan have signaled a willingness to release him but are unclear which U.S. government officials have the authority to make a deal, according to two individuals in the military working for his release.
Will soldier be left behind in Afghanistan?
The case of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, held by the Taliban since 2009, has arisen again as the U.S. and other countries engage in diplomatic efforts to free him.
But if he is released, will America’s only prisoner of the Afghan war be viewed as a hero or a deserter?
Taliban say they discussed prisoner swap with U.S.
Washington has held indirect talks with the Taliban over the possible transfer of five senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a U.S. soldier captured nearly five years ago, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press.
Widow gets remains of soldier lost in Korean War
rmy Sgt. 1st Class Joseph E. Gantt went off to war 63 years ago, leaving behind a wife who never gave up on his return.
Miss. soldier killed in helicopter crash
The Department of Defense says a Mississippi soldier is among six soldiers killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan.
Mississippi’s last living daughter of Confederate soldier dies
Mildred Belle Martin Barron, regarded as Mississippi’s last living daughter of a Confederate soldier, died Tuesday at her Amite County home after suffering a stroke. She was 106.
Killers of Israel soldier who shot Arabs sentenced
An Israeli court on Thursday sentenced seven Arabs citizens to prison terms of eight months to two years for their part in the lynching of a soldier who went on a deadly shooting spree in 2005.
Autopsy says Wash. soldier was stabbed in heart
TACOMA, Wash. — A Washington-based soldier who died over the weekend was stabbed in the heart as he was walking away from a deescalating confrontation,
Obama awards Medal of Honor to Afghan war vet
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama bestowed the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, on Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter on Monday, saluting the
Villagers unsatisfied by life sentence for Bales
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — The villagers traveled nearly 7,000 miles to learn the fate of the American soldier who gunned down their children, siblings
Soldier faces angry Afghans as sentencing continues
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Lawyers for the U.S. soldier who killed 16 Afghan civilians in an attack on two villages are preparing to present
Soldier to admit Afghan massacre
SEATTLE — Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was “crazed” and “broken” when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds in
UK police arrest 10th suspect in soldier’s slaying
British police arrested a 10th suspect Monday in connection with the vicious street killing of a soldier in London, an apparent Islamic extremist attack that has horrified the country and heightened racial tensions.