AWOL soldier plans to return from Canada
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A soldier who fled to Canada two years ago after serving in Iraq said he would return home to face consequences from the U.S. Army.
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For weeks, Chief Warrant Officer Jason DeFrenn's family awaited his homecoming, a trip planned as much more than a simple respite from his second tour in Iraq: The nine-year Army veteran was returning to South Carolina to help his wife give birth.
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RADCLIFF, Kentucky  - A decorated U.S. Army veteran who was wounded in Iraq and then deserted to Canada to protest the war as a mistake surrendered to the military on Tuesday.
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Family and friends of Lieut. Chris Saunders will gather in his home town of Halifax, and abroad, to say good-bye to the husband and father of two.
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From Tuesday's Globe and Mail OTTAWA AND TIRIN KOT, AFGHANISTAN - Prime Minister Stephen Harper goes recruiting today, hoping to convince combat-shy Europeans to reinforce Canada's embattled troops doing much ...Comment
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An Army private seeking refugee status in Canada after refusing to serve in Iraq told immigration officials on Monday that the war is illegal and would have forced him to commit war crimes.
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A soldier who said she was sexually harassed by other officers, prompting her to leave her post and refuse to return to Iraq, has agreed to plead guilty to going AWOL in exchange for a reduced punishment, the Army said Monday.
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TORONTO -- Canada will extend its military mission in Afghanistan only if another NATO country puts more soldiers in the dangerous south, the prime minister said Monday, echoing the recommendation of an independent panel to withdraw without additional forces.
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A Marine from New Jersey was deployed to Iraq this month despite being recommended for a military discharge by a hearing officer who agreed that he should receive conscientious objector status.
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Rather than begin a second tour of duty in Iraq, an Army medic chooses to face a possible court-martial for fleeing from duty
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan A military court-martial is under way for Charles Jenkins, the Army sergeant who&#39;s accused of deserting his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea.
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It's important to debate Canada's war &nbsp;mission in Afghanistan. It's a legitimate and necessary debate. It's a debate occurring in all the NATO countries now being asked to send more troops. Most of these countries, with the exception of Poland and Canada, have resisted further commitments. As in Canada, there is broad questioning within their populations about the core wisdom and merits of this mission. This is not, or as some are suggesting, a re-staging of the Second World War. The fate of the Western world is not hanging in the balance.
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(Camp Zama, Japan-AP) Nov. 27, 2004 - Charles Jenkins hopes to make one more trip to the US before settling down to a new life in northern Japan.
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Britain&#39;s royal bad boy-turned-soldier Prince Harry has arrived at a military base in Canada, where he is on shooting training for a possible deployment to Afghanistan, local media reported.
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OTTAWA - President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan pleaded with Canada yesterday not to withdraw its 2,500 troops when their mission ends in early 2009, saying to do so would only help deliver his country back to the Taliban, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported. Karzai made his comments to a special meeting of all Canadian reporters based in Afghanistan.
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TORONTO (CP) - An American war dodger said Tuesday he fled the U.S. military because he believed the invasion of Iraq was illegal and any act of violence he committed there would be an atrocity.
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A former Ohio Army Reserve commander who was court-martialed for taking abandoned Army vehicles in Kuwait so her unit could carry out its mission in Iraq returned home Monday after serving a six-month sentence.