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Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, as a child and as a U.S. Navy officer. U.S. Navy

'Fat Leonard' scandal claims Navy officer who fled killing fields

After escaping Cambodia's killing fields as a child, Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz lived an improbably charmed life. He was adopted by an American mother, graduated from the Naval Academy and became a decorated officer who triumphantly returned to his native country as the skipper of a U.S. warship.

Navy commander pleads guilty in 'Fat Leonard' case
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Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland. Courtesy of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter

Soldier who hit admitted Afghan child rapist will stay in Army

An Army board on Wednesday determined Army Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland’s military personnel file contained an “error or injustice,” an Army spokesman said Friday morning. Removing that error from his record means Martland will continue to serve at least through the end of his enlistment.

Congressman: Army must immediately reinstate Green Beret who hit admitted Afghan rapist
Green Beret compares US military inaction in Afghan rapes to Penn State scandal
An Afghan National Army soldier stands guard at the gate of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on Oct. 15, 2015. At least 16 U.S. military personnel, including a two-star general, have been disciplined for mistakes that led to the bombing of the civilian hospital last year that killed 42 people. Najim Rahim/AP

Families, rights groups decry punishments for Kunduz hospital strike

Victims’ family members and human rights groups on Friday expressed disappointment with the Pentagon’s decision to hand down nonjudicial punishments, rather than court-martial, 16 personnel held accountable for an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz last year.

Green Beret officer blames 'moral cowardice' for Doctors Without Borders strike
16 military personnel punished for deadly hospital airstrike in Afghanistan
Members of the Afghan National Police prepare for their graduation from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal course at Central Training Center-Kabul, Feb.10, 2016. The Special Inspector for Afghan Reconstruction, in its quarterly report to Congress, questioned whether the U.S. will be able to maintain proper oversight of reconstruction efforts as the drawdown of its troops continues. Charity Edgar/U.S. Navy

SIGAR: US drawdown will leave Afghan forces with 'capability gaps'

Current plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan will leave Afghan forces with “capability gaps” in a number of areas, which could threaten the success of reconstruction efforts in the country, a government watchdog said Friday.

 

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  • A man watches a TV news program showing a file footage of North Korea's rocket launch at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 28, 2016. A suspected powerful intermediate-range North Korean missile crashed moments after liftoff Thursday, South Korea's Defense Ministry said, in what would be the second such embarrassing failure in recent weeks.<br>Ahn Young-joon/AP

    China ambassador says North Korean proposal merits study

    China's U.N. ambassador says a North Korea proposal under which Pyongyang would halt its nuclear program if the U.S. and South Korea suspend joint military exercises merits consideration.

  • For decades this bell hung outside Most Holy Trinity Catholic Chapel at West Point, its history lost and forgotten. A ceremony at the chapel Friday, April 29, 2016, marked the return of the bell to its original home at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Bauang, La Union, Philippines, from where it was taken in 1901.<br>U.S. Military Academy at West Point

    West Point returns bell taken from Philippines church 100 years ago

    A massive bell that hung at a chapel at the West Point military academy in New York for decades was rung one last time Friday before being sent back to its home: the Philippines.

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  • Some of the souks, or marketplaces, in Aleppo, Syria, date to the 13th century. The covered bazaars and courtyards were home to mosques, synagogues and churches, and they were a vital part of the city's fabric. At one souk on the edge of the old city, there are few signs of life except for the occasional group of soldiers - the marketplace, on the front lines of the Syrian civil war, is now part of a military zone. <br>Lorenzo Tugnoli/The Washington Post

    U.S., Russia forge another cease-fire for parts of Syria

    The United States and Russia said Friday that they have arranged a renewed cease-fire in two parts of Syria where fighting escalated this month, but the area does not include Aleppo, site of the heaviest attacks and dozens of civilian deaths in recent days.

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    Residents of Iraq's Islamic State-held Fallujah suffer under siege

    Since August, Iraqi government troops have tightened their grip around Fallujah — under Islamic State control since early 2014 — and have prevented the entry of food and medicine into the city. Nobody seems to be starving just yet, but medical officials say malnutrition is on the rise and medical supplies are running out.

  • Rising violence kills over 200 in a week in Syria's Aleppo
  • Voting underway in key runoff parliamentary election in Iran
  • Vakil Batirshin and his wife, Minfiza, stand in their yard in the village of New Muslyumovo in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia on april 7, 2016. Batirshin has swollen lymph nodes from radiation-related illnesses. <br>Iuliia Subbotovska/AP

    Russia's nuclear nightmare flows down radioactive river

    At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime's exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as a reporter strolls down to the muddy riverbank

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  • For decades this bell hung outside Most Holy Trinity Catholic Chapel at West Point, its history lost and forgotten. A ceremony at the chapel Friday, April 29, 2016, marked the return of the bell to its original home at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Bauang, La Union, Philippines, from where it was taken in 1901.<br>U.S. Military Academy at West Point
    West Point returns bell taken from Philippines church 100 years ago

  • Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland.<br>Courtesy of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter
    Green Beret who hit admitted Afghan child rapist will stay in the Army

  • Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Findings from the Defense Department Inspector General?s audit - published Friday - found that as of May 26, 2015, the largest U.S. military hospital overseas had more than 12,000 outstanding medical service accounts totaling about $4.6 million.<br>
    Delinquent bills total more than $4 million at Landstuhl

  • Retired Marine Ken Rodgers poses during the Vietnam War at Khe Sanh in 1968. Rodgers will receive the Ellen Hardin Walworth Founders Medal for Patriotism, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution's highest award, May 12 in Boise, Idaho.<br>Courtesy of 'Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valor'
    Vietnam veteran, filmmaker to receive highest DAR honor

  • Families, rights groups decry punishments for Kunduz hospital strike

    Victims’ family members and human rights groups on Friday expressed disappointment with the Pentagon’s decision to hand down nonjudicial punishments, rather than court-martial, 16 personnel held accountable for an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz last year.

  • Longtime U.S. military interpreter "Malik," left, on a patrol with American forces in Farah province, Afghanistan, in 2008. Despite working for more than a decade with U.S. troops and facing death threats from the Taliban, Malik has been waiting five years for a visa created specifically for former Afghan and Iraqi interpreters facing danger. <br>Courtesy photo

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  • Arizona Cardinals safety Pat Tillman celebrates after tackling New Orleans Saints running back Lamar Smith for a loss in the third quarter of an NFL football game in Tempe, Ariz., on Dec. 20, 1998.<br>Roy Dabner/AP
    Across Arizona, parents name children after Pat Tillman

 

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