SAN DIEGO — When the last U.S. service member leaves Afghanistan, perhaps by early next month, America’s longest war on foreign soil will end — and so too a mission initially dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom.…

Stormie Bush just made women’s history. Known locally as an assistant softball coach at ACC, she also has the distinction of having become the first female infantry non-commissioned officer in the Kansas Army National Guard.…

Bill Brecheisen’s memory has faded, but only slightly, from his stint in World War II. He recounts with stunning clarity his 503 days on the front lines, from the invasions and eventual liberation of Sicily…

Kyle Griffeth doesn’t remember the names of all the combat outposts he was stationed at in Afghanistan, but he can’t forget the Tangi Valley. Tangi Valley “was the worst,” said Griffeth. “I was there for…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is reducing its troop presence in Iraq this month from 5,200 to 3,000, the top American commander for the Middle East said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump tries to…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A seafaring tank with 15 Marines and a Navy sailor aboard sank near a military-owned island off the coast of Southern California, leaving one of the Marines dead and eight missing,…

America is in peril. The days and hours ahead could define our nation, in the same way that the turmoil of 1968 did. On Monday, President Donald Trump took another page from the authoritarian playbook,…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary rebuke, former defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump’s heavy-handed use of military force to quell protests near the White House and said his former boss…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper is facing the most politically charged crisis of his tenure, criticized for calling protester-filled streets a military “battle space” and accused of failing to keep the military out…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After threatening states that he would dispatch the military to quell protests, President Donald Trump appeared to be privately backing off, with White House officials saying the response to demonstrations across the…