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The military uses armored personnel carriers and water cannons as it penetrates the encampment of anti-government demonstrators in downtown Bangkok.

American troops are dying younger, often fresh out of boot camp, and are frequently victims of homemade bombs known as I.E.D.’s.

Pakistan has test-fired two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the military said Saturday.

Japan's prime minister said Tuesday that it will be impossible to move all parts of a key U.S. Marine base out of Okinawa, breaking with past promises to relocate the facility outside the southern island.

The U.S. military's ban on women serving on submarines passed quietly into history Thursday morning.

On the eve of his terrorism trial, an American student who studied in London admitted Tuesday that he helped a friend deliver some protective clothing to an al-Qaida military commander fighting Americans in Afghanistan.

Western military officials acknowledge that none of those in a car fired on by soldiers had links to the insurgency.

The U.S. military confirms the two leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq have been killed in a joint operation with Iraqi forces.

The former president of Blackwater Worldwide was charged Friday with using straw purchases to stockpile automatic weapons at the security firm and filing false documents to cover up gifts given to the king of Jordan....

The US military says Iran would need between four and six years to produce a usable atomic bomb.