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Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, commander of Naval Surface Forces, speaks at a Surface Navy Association conference, July 14, 2017.<br>Trevor Welsh/U.S. Navy

New Navy unit will keep tabs on warship readiness in Western Pacific

The Navy is standing up a new unit to look at warship readiness in the Western Pacific following a string of serious accidents.

An Air Force chaplain reads from his Bible during a training scenario on Aug. 19, 2017. Air Force Capt. Sonny Hernandez, a chaplain with the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is under fire for saying that Christian servicemembers should not support the rights of other religions to practice their faith, saying “that will lead them to hell.”<br>Efren Lopez/U.S. Air Force
Air Force chaplain comments raise debate on religious freedom vs. personal faith
This image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other officials watching a launch was released by the Korean Central News Agency a day after Pyongyang test-fired a missile over Japan on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.<br>Courtesy of KCNA
North Korea is likely to fire more missiles after Trump’s speech, experts say
On Tuesday, more than 70 civilian employees of the U.S. Army in Katterbach, Germany, went on strike and protested for higher wages. They also were striking in Illesheim, which like Katterbach, belongs to U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach.<br>Photo courtesy of Petra Fichtner

German workers at US bases strike over pay

About 70 German workers from U.S. military bases at Ansbach, Katterbach and Illesheim went on strike Tuesday to demand higher wages.

A Virginia-based company has been awarded a $17.9 million contract to build a waterfront headquarters building at Naval Base Guam as part of plans to relocate Marines from Okinawa.<br>Marcus Fichtl/Stars and Stripes

Navy awards $17.9 million contract to build Marine headquarters at Naval Base Guam

A Virginia-based company has been awarded a $17.9 million contract to build a waterfront headquarters building at Naval Base Guam as part of plans to relocate Okinawa-based Marines to the tiny Western Pacific territory in the coming years, Navy officials said Tuesday.

Coast Guard Cutter Diligence crew members offload more than 1,800 kilograms of cocaine from the Diligence in St. Petersburg, Fla., Sept. 17, 2017.<br>Ashley J. Johnson

For second straight year, Coast Guard sets record for drug seizures at sea

The Coast Guard has set a record for cocaine seizures at sea for the second consecutive year, an effort that admirals are linking to border security as they look to build new ships while President Trump presses for a border wall.

A medic with Japan's 34th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, Eastern Army watches a medevac helicopter take off with a simulated casualty during Orient Shield drills at East Fuji Maneuver Area, Japan, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017.<br>Leon Cook/Stars and Stripes

VIDEO, GALLERY

US-Japanese troops practice recapturing territory during Orient Shield drills

U.S. and Japanese troops trained to retake territory occupied by an invading force during live-fire drills near Mount Fuji on Tuesday.

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A man is rescued from a collapsed building in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City after an earthquake in Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017.<br>Pablo Ramos/AP

Mexicans dig through collapsed buildings as quake kills 217

Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early Wednesday, looking for survivors of Mexico's deadliest earthquake in decades as the number of confirmed fatalities climbed to 217.

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In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg smiles at the beginning of the informal meeting of the EU ministers of defence in Tallinn, Estonia. Stoltenberg said in an interview Tuesday, Sept. 19, with The Associated Press on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting that after many years of decline, "we have now seen for the first time since the end of the Cold War a real increase in defense spending across Europe and Canada."<br>Liis Treimann/AP Photo, File

NATO chief welcomes Trump's new approach

NATO's secretary-general welcomed President Donald Trump's new strategy for the 16-year Afghan war and said the U.S. leader's insistence that NATO members increase their defense spending is achieving positive results.

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This image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other officials watching a launch was released by the Korean Central News Agency a day after Pyongyang test-fired a missile over Japan on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.<br>Courtesy of KCNA

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North Korea is likely to fire more missiles after Trump’s speech, experts say

Kim Jong Un's regime tells the North Korean people every day that the United States wants to destroy them and their country. Now, they will hear it from another source: from the president of the United States himself.

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Israeli soldiers cover their ears as an artillery unit fires shells toward southern Lebanon from a position near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, on July 21, 2006.<br>David Guttenfelder/AP

As Syrian war winds down, Israel sets sights on Hezbollah

With President Bashar Assad seemingly poised to survive the Syrian civil war, Israeli leaders are growing nervous about the intentions of his Iranian patrons and their emerging corridor of influence across the region.

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