The MQ-9 Reapers can carry up to eight laser-guided missiles, but those on patrol are unarmed, Marine Corps officials said.

The down-home chicken sandwiches, milkshakes and waffle fries at Benji’s Birdhouse exemplify the excesses of the country that inspired them. Yes, they taste just like home.

The ship that set off a flurry of American naval patrols in the Middle East this summer was carrying nearly a million barrels of smuggled Iranian oil worth an estimated $56 million before it was seized, news reports and recently unsealed court documents said.

A former Army sergeant who took part in a scheme that billed the Pentagon for military honor duties at funerals that never happened faces up to five years in prison, the Justice Department said.

U.S.-trained forces in Iraq made “no notable gains in counter-ISIS capability” as part of these efforts, known as Operation Inherent Resolve, said a recent report to Congress.

The desperate evacuations from Afghanistan two years ago amid the collapse of the U.S.-backed government sent tens of thousands of refugees on journeys across the world, many of whom turned to the country whose forces they had helped.

A resurgence in tensions between the U.S. and Iran in Middle Eastern waters is harkening back to the playbook of clandestine maritime conflicts that has pitted the two countries against each other for more than four decades, according to analysts.

The trio formed a corrupt partnership to funnel bribes to government employees in exchange for inside information that could help them win multimillion-dollar contracts, Jaime Esparza, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, said in a statement.

An American paratrooper who became a legend in Belgium during World War II for carrying beer in his helmet to give to the wounded has died, the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps said Thursday.

U.S. soldiers deployed to Kuwait are testing semi-autonomous cargo trucks with an eye toward eventually using them to create convoys in war zones and put fewer drivers in harm’s way, according to Army officials.