U.S. General Says It Is 'Fun to Shoot Some People'
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A senior U.S. Marine Corps general who said it was "fun to shoot some people" should have chosen his words more carefully but will not be disciplined, military officials said on Thursday.
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The new Afghan army is winning the  support of the population and is capable of tackling a  lingering insurgency by remnants of the ousted Taliban regime,  the U.S. general in charge of its training said Monday.
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A spate of bombings is evidence that militants have begun an offensive they had threatened, a U.S. general said.
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Iraqi insurgents have reduced the level  of violence in recent days, but may be planning a "more  spectacular" attack just before or during Sunday's elections, a  U.S. general said on Monday.
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The defense sector is busy with work on solid-state lasers that could shoot artillery shells out of the sky.
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BARRIGADA, Guam -- As a recruiter for the Guam Army National Guard, Staff Sgt. Gonzalo Fernandez has oodles of time for golf. In the past two years, he has taken 18 strokes off his handicap.
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Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case was referred to the Iraqi judiciary.
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America's two top generals in the Middle East said Thursday a security operation in Baghdad was helping curb violence after a surge of bombings and shootings there in recent months.
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Insurgents in Iraq are employing a variety of new tactics -- from an unprecedented string of helicopter shoot-downs to unusual chlorine bomb attacks and direct assaults on U.S. military bases -- that American commanders say are intended to create chaos and undermine the U.S. and Iraqi military push...
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After the bombing, U.S. soldiers fired into a crowd near the scene, accidentally killing a man, the military said.
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U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan believe their procedures for avoiding unintended casualties are sufficient despite a series of civilian deaths in recent weeks, a U.S. commander said on Tuesday.
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--Everyone knows someone like this: The guy who sits for hours, playing video games, his heart racing as he pummels animated bad guys with controller-driven automatic weapons.
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A U.S. serviceman fatally shot a civilian at the U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday "in response to a threat," the military said.
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Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then kill whoever picked up the items, according to the defense attorney for a soldier
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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 11--If you were to walk around the Inner Harbor firing bullets wildly into the air, would you get a ticket and have your gun handed back the next day?   No way.
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BAGHDAD - Nearly every week, American generals and politicians visit Combat Outpost Gator, nestled behind a towering blast wall in the Dora market. They arrive in convoys of armored Humvees, sometimes accompanied by helicopter gunships, to see what US commanders display as proof of the effectiveness of a seven-month-long security offensive, fueled by 30,000 US reinforcements. General David H. Petraeus, ...
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Two American soldiers were apparently shot on purpose last month by an Iraqi soldier on patrol with them, senior Iraqi officers said on Saturday.