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Sixteen years after the United States and its coalition partners invaded Iraq, most Iraqis still blame the U.S. for disbanding the Iraqi army and the civil war that followed.

Brazil is open to hosting a U.S. military base to counter Russian influence in the region, the South American country's new far-right president said.

President Donald Trump abruptly announced in mid-December that he was withdrawing 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.

U.S. combat troops have been in Afghanistan for nearly double the time they were in Vietnam. And the war has touched generations of Afghans.

Long seen as a bastion of support for Republicans, the face of the U.S. military and its veterans is changing — and perhaps too is their political bent.

The United States has lost its oldest World War II veteran. Richard Overton, who fought overseas in a segregated unit, died Thursday at age 112.

Two Cape May County organizations are seeking donations for local Coast Guard families during the ongoing partial federal government shutdown. 

It's the president's first such trip since taking office nearly two years ago.

His death is still setting in for his family and community in western Pennsylvania

Shoot it down. Jam it. Use a missile or maybe a net. There's no shortage of ideas about how to stop a drone, but as the past few days show, the reality is far more difficult.

Mattis' departure completes a near-wholesale shake-up of Trump's initial national security team and follows a record-setting series of departures of administration leaders.

Guests: Tom Nichols, Mona Yacoubian, Samer Abboud, Peter Overby We’ll begin today’s show discussing the surpr ...

The U.S. plans to withdraw all of its troops from Syria, a senior Pentagon official tells NPR. About 2,000 U.S. troops are currently in the northeastern part of the country.

Rolling Thunder, the veterans advocacy group that organizes a massive annual motorcycle ride through D.C., announced that the gathering in 2019 will be its last big rally.

The commander in chief flew to Philadelphia for the 119th meeting in the storied rivalry between the service academies.