Volunteers cheered the athletes, grilled food, wiped down the sporting equipment and acted as buddies to support and guide the Special Olympians.

Founded by four U.S. veterans in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Task Force Yankee Ukraine has crisscrossed the country to prepare more than 12,000 Ukrainians to treat the unique injuries of war.

Founded by four U.S. veterans in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Task Force Yankee Ukraine has crisscrossed the country to prepare more than 12,000 Ukrainians to treat the unique injuries of war.

Russian missile strikes knocked out the water supply to most of Kyiv, and residents streamed, carrying water bottles, to a fountain at a public park. “We expect some kind of disturbance every day,” said Laila Ivanova, 80. “But we’re trying to stay in a positive state of mind.”

At Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, a group of enlisted sailors with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force coordinated a sports competition with their U.S. Marine and Navy counterparts.

As Russia’s invasion grinds on in Ukraine, people in the capital Kyiv commemorate the fallen while trying to live their everyday lives in the midst of war.

Speaking aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Howard, the vice president, surrounded by sailors in dress whites, delivered remarks that largely focused on the region’s growing tensions.

The vice president is slated to visit Yokosuka Naval Base, home of the U.S. 7th Fleet south of Tokyo, on Wednesday to greet service members and tour the destroyer USS Howard.

Born in the midst of World War II, the Marine Corps’ 3rd Division played key roles on Guam and Iwo Jima and again in Vietnam at Khe Sanh and the evacuation of Saigon.

The weather wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough to parachute a howitzer and a tactical vehicle out the back of a plane. The drop at the sprawling Hohenfels Training Area in Bavaria came courtesy of an Air Force C-130 cargo plane during exercise Saber Junction.

Here’s a look back at some Stars and Stripes photos of Queen Elizabeth II.

Nuclear-armed nations must commit to a “no first-use policy” as rising tensions between them revive the threat of nuclear war, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday.

The ceremony, which took place on the 69th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended combat in the Korean War, came after just over a year of construction on the Wall of Remembrance, which started in March 2021.

The scripted emergency scenarios devised to kick off a basewide exercise gave way to an actual urgent situation, providing a real test of the 86th Airlift Wing’s ability to respond.

About two dozen U.S. soldiers with the Kaiserslautern-based 21st Theater Sustainment Command and a similar number of German troops and town workers on Monday helped unclog two creeks that flow into the Rhine at St. Goar.

More than 645,000 poppy flowers — one for every American killed in combat since World War I — visualize the cost of war and the magnitude of the sacrifices made by fallen service members.

President Joe Biden collected promises to improve a collective defense in South Korea and reinstate large military exercises there suspended in 2017.

President Joe Biden signaled an apparent end to the US policy of strategic ambiguity by saying the United States would defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion.

The Lincoln, on patrol since leaving San Diego on Jan. 3, is making a port call for ship-board maintenance and to provide the crew some downtime.

Warrior week is meant to identify “the best of the best” and to get “soldiers back to the idea of mastering the fundamentals,” Command Sgt. Maj. Albert Turner said.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that allies must “move at the speed of war” to get more weaponry into the hands of Ukrainian forces, following meetings with dozens of foreign military leaders at Ramstein Air Base on Tuesday.

The Expert Soldier Badge competition, the first ever for U.S. Army Japan, began Monday with a field of 121 from across Japan and Guam. The competing troops spent a week training for the tests they would face.

U.S. military bases and schools hold special events in April to honor military families and their children.

The combined-arms, live-fire demonstration launched last month at the U.S. Army’s African Land Forces Summit displayed American military might for key leaders of African armies — many of whom have long worked with U.S. forces and others with whom American generals aim to strengthen ties.

The Fuji Flatliners are one of three women’s roller derby teams at U.S. military bases in the Tokyo area. After a lengthy pandemic layoff, they’re ready to start trading elbows and insults again.

The U.S. and its allies are deliberately showing off their strength during the Cold Response exercise and putting Russia on notice, should it decide to attack another nation along its borders.

Three C-130s out of Ramstein on a mission Friday earned an unusual distinction: they flew the first training formation with all-women crew members in the squadron’s history, which goes back to World War II.

Three MV-22 Ospreys descended on a mountain clearing during a drill this week marking the first coordinated use of the tilt-rotor aircraft by the U.S. Marine Corps and the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force.

The 36th Airlift Squadron celebrated women in aviation Tuesday by taking Yokota High School students aloft and talking about women’s achievements in the air.

After Russia launched its attack on Ukraine last week, the entire brigade was ordered to Hohenfels, Germany, where it will gather its weapons and vehicles and train before potentially deploying to bolster NATO defenses on its eastern flank.