US soldiers sue for having to stay in Iraq
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Eight US soldiers serving in Iraq launched a legal challenge yesterday to stop their tours of duty from being extended. The lawsuit is the first of its kind by a group of American soldiers on active service in the country.
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An Army specialist, saying that it was &quot;a question of fairness,&quot; filed a lawsuit yesterday with seven other soldiers challenging a policy forcing them to serve in Iraq beyond their terms of enlistment.
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WASHINGTON, United States : An unusual US request for a British battalion to back up American troops in Iraq has shown the political constraints on the use of coalition forces even as an intensifying battle against insurgents is testing the US force there
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Four British citizens released from Guantanamo Bay filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the United States seeking &#36;10 million each in damages for abuse they allegedly suffered at the U.S. military outpost in Cuba, attorneys said Wednesday.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Amid yellow ribbons and farewell banners at a ceremony for Iraq-bound troops here last week was one anonymous combat veteran waging a last-minute federal court battle to stay home.
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At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists have been  court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own  mission to Iraq.
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NEW YORK An Army captain is going to court in an attempt to keep from being sent to Iraq. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, Jay Ferriola contends he resigned after completing eight years of service in the Army and Army Reserve.
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An Army specialist, saying it was "a question of fairness," filed a lawsuit Monday with seven other soldiers challenging a policy forcing them to serve in Iraq beyond their terms of enlistment.
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A California Army National Guard soldier sued the military in federal court Tuesday over a program that could keep up to 20,000 Army personnel beyond their time of service.
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The US military&#39;s policy of extending the enlistments of tens of thousands of troops to cover needs in Iraq violates federal law and the Constitution, an Iraq war veteran is alleging in a lawsuit.
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A decorated US combat veteran filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asserting that the government can not prevent reservists from leaving the military when their enlistment periods end.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- Two US soldiers have been charged with murdering an Iraqi civilian, raising to four the number of American soldiers from the same unit charged in the past week with killing Iraqis.
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A soldier who challenged an Army policy requiring him to serve past the date of his enlistment contract must return for duty in Iraq while his lawsuit is under review, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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An unusual US request for a British battalion to back up American troops in Iraq has shown the political constraints on the use of coalition forces even as an intensifying battle against insurgents is testing the US force there.
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The Bush administration asserted in federal court yesterday that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and three former military officials cannot be held liable for the alleged torture of nine Afghans and Iraqis in U.S. military detention camps because the detainees have no standing to sue in U.S....
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Sudan is being sued in the US over accusations that it aided a deadly attack on a US warship in Yemen in 2000.
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Two more US soldiers have been charged over Abu Ghraib abuse even as the US government released more documents on prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan.