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Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror.
18:14 May 25, 2013
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When Brig. Gen. G.B. McDowell passed away on Veterans Day 2011 near Seattle, condolences in an online guest book lifted up his son, Col. Michael Douglas McDowell.
21:48 May 25, 2013
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President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.
19:15 May 25, 2013
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military.
15:49 May 25, 2013
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Ryan Crocker has long been viewed as America's indispensable diplomat in the Muslim world. President George W. Bush named him ambassador to Iraq in 2007 to rescue a failing policy, and four years later, President Obama dispatched him to salvage the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.
22:31 May 25, 2013
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A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The attack came a day after a Taliban assault in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers.
11:33 May 25, 2013
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An Israeli security expert says Syrian hackers tried to break into the computers of the water system of the city of Haifa.
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Croatia may be on the doorstep of the European Union, but in the village of Kumrovec another group of nations was getting all the glory. In Kumrovec, the birthplace of Yugoslavia's late communist leader Josip Broz Tito, thousands gathered Saturday to mark his birthday.
08:20 May 25, 2013
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A French soldier was stabbed in the throat in a busy commercial district outside Paris on Saturday, and France's president said authorities are investigating any possible links with the recent slaying of a British soldier.
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A German shipping company says four crew members from one of its vessels have been released a month after being kidnapped by pirates off Equatorial Guinea's coast.
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Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence.
11:16 May 25, 2013
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Two Korean former sex slaves demanded the resignation of an outspoken Japanese mayor and canceled a meeting with him Friday for justifying Japan's wartime practice of forcing tens of thousands of Asian women into prostitution for its military.
11:12 May 25, 2013
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The list of those in and out of Japan who scorn and deride Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto for justifying the wartime “comfort women” is growing daily, presenting a unprecedented crisis for the once-popular politician.
13:19 May 25, 2013
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One day in 1969, when Paul Clever was 6, he came home to find his mother crying as two Air Force officers stood by. After they left, his mother told him and his sister that their father, Sgt. Louis Clever, had been lost.