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The four-man Army crew of a UH-1H “Huey” chased a burning C-130 transport plane as it crashed near Saigon in 1972, hovered over the wreckage and pulled five men onto their helicopter. They did this while taking – and returning — fire.

The four-man crew of a UH-1H “Huey” chased a burning C-130 transport plane as it crashed near Saigon in 1972, hovered over the wreckage and pulled five men onto their helicopter. They did this while taking – and returning -- fire.

There is only one place in the world where you can fire a Sherman tank, more than 70 years after it rolled off the production line: deep in the heart of Texas.

A soldier was killed and two others were injured Monday when the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter they were flying crashed at a golf course in Maryland, according to an Army news release.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is looking to the Middle East and North Africa for broader contributions and new ideas to fight Islamic extremism as the Trump administration fleshes out its counterterrorism strategy.

World War I was called "the war to end war" by the time America entered the conflict 100 years ago this month. The First World War, 1914-1918, didn't fulfill that prediction, but it did provide two symbols of American service and sacrifice that endure to this day — the Blue and Gold Star service flags.

Virginia authorities are investigating the death of an Army veteran, paralyzed from the waist down, who was found in his wheelchair outside his apartment complex.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Turkish leaders should open talks with opponents and the European Union after a narrow referendum victory while the French government urged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to use the result to bring back capital punishment.

Russia's Federal Security Service says it has arrested a suspected organizer of the suicide bombing in the St. Petersburg subway that killed 14 passengers.

On the western side of Mosul, much of the fighting against Islamic State militants takes place between houses so close that they almost touch. Snipers fire from roofs and through holes blasted into outer walls.

On main! On belay! The commands came from a trainer standing on the retired Battleship New Jersey, more than 100 feet above its deck.The trainees were 17 firefighters and EMTs from across the country who were on a rescue mission.

The United Nations says nearly half a million civilians have fled Mosul since U.S.-backed Iraqi forces launched a wide-scale military operation last October to retake the city from Islamic State militants.

China and Russia have dispatched intelligence-gathering vessels from their navies to chase the USS Carl Vinson nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which is heading toward waters near the Korean Peninsula, multiple sources of the Japanese government revealed to The Yomiuri Shimbun.

European leaders reacted with restraint and concern Monday to the narrow outcome of a referendum in Turkey that grants sweeping new powers to the nation's president.

Turkey's main opposition party on Monday urged the country's electoral board to cancel the results of a landmark referendum that granted sweeping new powers to the nation's president, citing what it called substantial voting irregularities.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the U.S. is using Afghanistan as a weapons testing ground, calling the recent use of the largest-ever non-nuclear bomb "an immense atrocity against the Afghan people."

Government forces and their allies advanced Monday in the central province of Hama under the cover of intense airstrikes, approaching the outskirts of a rebel-held town a day after capturing a strategic town from opposition fighters and militants, Syria's state media and opposition activists said.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that Japan's government is drawing up contingency plans in case a crisis on the Korean Peninsula sends an influx of refugees to Japan.

To be tax literate, citizens should understand that taxes are not just numbers and abstract principles, and they are not arbitrary.

If such an effort is not already underway, an interagency team should be tasked with a thorough analysis of the current state of the relationship.

Pakistan says it has detained a teenage woman recruited by the Islamic State group to carry out a suicide attack against a church on Easter.

Park Geun-hye, the recently deposed president of South Korea, was indicted on corruption and other charges in the latest blow for the country's first female president, the former darling of conservatives and the daughter of a deeply divisive dictator.

The question for the Supreme Court is whether Missouri can demand an even stricter separation of church and state.

One can only believe the United Airlines episode has already shaken the airline industry to its core and will bring a realization of how far we have slipped since the days when the customer truly mattered. Let’s hope it won’t soon be forgotten.

Once soft on Russia and hard on China, President Donald Trump rapidly reversed course in the last weeks, concluding there's more business to be done with Beijing than with Moscow.