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The USS Lake Champlain transits the Pacific Ocean in 2014.<br>Dustin Knight/U.S. Navy

USS Lake Champlain captain, crew members were disciplined for May collision

The commander of a U.S. warship that collided with a South Korean fishing vessel last spring was disciplined along with several members of his crew, the Navy revealed Tuesday.

A Marine with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing prepares to steer a CH-53E Super Stallion off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 2017.<br>Christian Robertson/U.S. Marine Corps
Okinawa Marines resume Super Stallion flights following accident
This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Army and the University of Maryland Police Department shows Richard Collins III, left, and Sean Urbanski. On Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, Urbanski was indicted on a hate crime charge for allegedly stabbing Collins to death "because of his race," a Maryland prosecutor said. <br>U.S. Army, University of Maryland Police Department via AP
Maryland man indicted for hate crime in new soldier's slaying
Matia Tibenda, and Alvin Ochieng, Ugandan contractors, do a roving patrol during a guard shift at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, in 2006. Contractor Triple Canopy has agreed to pay a $2.6 million settlement to resolve claims that they billed the military for unqualified security guards at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq.<br>Marshall Thompson/U.S. Army

Firm pays $2.6M settlement after hiring base guards in Iraq who US says couldn’t shoot

A security firm accused of billing the Defense Department millions of dollars for guards at a U.S. air base in Iraq has agreed to pay $2.6 million in a settlement with the government, after allegations that the guards couldn’t shoot easy targets.

This photo posted online Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, by supporters of the Islamic State group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show an ISIS fighter firing a weapon during clashes with Syrian government troops in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour. <br>Militant Photo via AP

Al-Qaida set to gain as Islamic State disintegrates

While the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed Syrian troops have been focused on driving ISIS from the country's east, an al-Qaida-linked insurgent coalition known as the Levant Liberation Committee has consolidated its control over Idlib, and may be looking to return to Osama bin Laden's strategy of attacking the West.

A screen grab from a video released in December 2016 shows Caitlan Coleman taking, while her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle holds their two children. <br>Taliban Media/AP

American woman rescued from Afghanistan rushed to hospital

Caitlan Boyle, her husband, Joshua Boyle, and their three children were rescued Wednesday, five years after the couple was abducted in Afghanistan on a backpacking trip. The children were born in captivity.

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, U.S. Army Europe commander, is interviewed by Lithuanian media in Panevezys, Lithuania, on Monday, March 23, 2015. Hodges is now slated to retire as the commander of U.S. Army Europe.<br>Michael Abrams/Stars and Stripes

How US Army Europe’s outgoing general got the Pentagon’s attention

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges’ three-year tenure at USAREUR has been arguably the most consequential in Europe since the end of the Cold War, with the Army serving as the centerpiece of the Pentagon’s efforts to energize what had been a languishing military mission.

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A bottlenose dolphin reacts to its U.S. Navy trainer in an open-air pen at the Mine and Santi-Submarine Warfare Center in San Diego in March 2015. Researchers hope to use the dolphins in locating some of the few surviving vaquita porpoises in Mexico's Upper Gulf of California.<br>Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Scientists, technicians, Navy bottlenose dolphins set out to save Mexico’s vaquita porpoise

Dubbed Vaquita CPR (Conservation, Protection and Recovery), the mission envisions not just capturing the rare porpoises, but breeding them in order to rebuild the population. And hopefully, once conditions allow, releasing them back into the wild.

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Cpl. Karen Aponte, practical nurse specialist with Medical Support Unit-Europe, 7th Mission Support Command, helps treat a role-playing casualty with assistance from a local paramedic during an exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sept. 27, 2017. The Army is considering increasing reimbursements for reservists traveling to drills and long-term training.<br>Jeku Arce/U.S. Army Reserve

DOD mulls more money for reservists who travel a long way to serve

U.S. military reservists who travel a long way to serve — and in some cases spend their drill pay to do so — may see their expenses reduced by as much as two-thirds as the Pentagon considers changes to the reserve travel policy as a retention tool.

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A Marine with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing prepares to steer a CH-53E Super Stallion off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, July 31, 2017.<br>Christian Robertson/U.S. Marine Corps

Okinawa Marines resume Super Stallion flights following accident

The Marine Corps resumed CH-53E Super Stallion flights on Okinawa Wednesday despite Japanese officials’ calls to ground the legacy heavy-lift helicopters over safety concerns.

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This photo posted online Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, by supporters of the Islamic State group on an anonymous photo sharing website, purports to show an ISIS fighter firing a weapon during clashes with Syrian government troops in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour. <br>Militant Photo via AP

Al-Qaida set to gain as Islamic State disintegrates

While the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed Syrian troops have been focused on driving ISIS from the country's east, an al-Qaida-linked insurgent coalition known as the Levant Liberation Committee has consolidated its control over Idlib, and may be looking to return to Osama bin Laden's strategy of attacking the West.

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