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Israel bombarded the southern Gaza town of Rafah today as troops searched for an officer they believe was captured by Hamas in an ambush that shattered a humanitarian cease-fire and set the stage for a major escalation of the 26-day-old war.
Hamas acknowledged responsibility for a deadly Gaza Strip ambush in which an Israeli army officer may have been captured, but said the incident likely preceded and therefore had not violated a U.S.- and U.N.-sponsored truce.
Defense Department personnel are on the ground in West Africa and in U.S. laboratories fighting to control the worst outbreak in the African history of the Ebola virus, which a senior Army infectious disease doctor called a "scourge of mankind."
The Army will send notices to 500 majors next week that they must leave the service, the outgoing Army vice chief of staff said.
The House late Friday sent a measure to the president that would provide Israel with funding for its Iron Dome missile defense system.
President Obama said in blunt terms the United States "tortured some folks" - describing a forthcoming report on now-defunct U.S. interrogation techniques he called "contrary to our values."
The Pentagon announced the U.S. wants to send troops to train Ukrainian forces next year as the country faces continued aggression from pro-Russia separatists.
North Korea has asked for an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to protest upcoming U.S.-South Korean military exercises.
Former President Bill Clinton told an audience in Australia just hours before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that he passed on the chance to kill Osama bin Laden with a military strike, according to an audio tape just released.
U.S. Army Gen. John Campbell will preside over the precipitous drawdown of U.S. forces and material from Afghanistan, falling from about 22,000 US troops to 9,800 by December.
Units of the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions deploying to Afghanistan in the fall will stay on into 2015.
The initial down-select for the technology demonstrator phase of the U.S. Army's ambitious Joint Multi-Role helicopter program has missed its original July deadline, and Army officials are now saying they'll inform industry teams about who is moving forward sometime this month.
A new Defense Health Agency policy allows Tricare patients to get therapy from certain mental health specialists who otherwise would have been dropped from the military's list of approved providers this year.
Army officials released a statement on its long-waited camouflage decision, and it left a lot of questions unanswered.
Witness the power of water, carrying boulders of all sizes in this impressive video filmed at the Illgraben-Bhutan Bridge, in Switzerland.
The week in music: J Mascis, Tori Amos, Vaselines and others ...
Tiny - a little movie about a couple that builds a tiny house in Colorado.
Did you know there's a robot hitchhiking across Canada?
Following a six-day-old kitten through 12 weeks of growing up. Seriously.
LINK: Original photo by Sgt. Vincent Byrd, 2nd BCT, 1st AD, Public Affairs