Officers: Islamic State snipers, suicide bombers slow advance in Mosul
On Saturday, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces began a new offensive to recapture the Old City from three directions.

On Saturday, U.S.-backed Iraqi forces began a new offensive to recapture the Old City from three directions.
Capt. Amy Svoboda was the Air Force's first female combat pilot killed on a mission, when she died May 27, 1997 during a tactical training mission on the Barry Goldwater range.
For the past five years, Boy Scouts Troop 274 out of Frederick, Md., has marked the graves of veterans at Resthaven with American flags for Memorial Day, a task formerly shouldered by the local chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association.
BA canceled flights from Heathrow and Gatwick Saturday, upending the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.
The Korean Central News Agency said that Kim Jong Un watched the test of a new “anti-aircraft guided weapon system” and declared it a success. The report didn’t give a date or location.
The lawsuit alleged the former Democratic presidential candidate's use of a private email server caused the death of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, because it exposed terrorists to sensitive information.
The violence erupted Tuesday night when the government launched a raid to capture Isnilon Hapilon. But the operation went awry and militants rampaged through the city, torching buildings and battling government forces in the streets.
Philippine troops found the bodies of 16 civilians in the streets as they fought Sunday to drive out militants linked to the Islamic State group who have occupied parts of a southern city. The overall death toll was 92.
A Virginia State Police special agent fatally shot in a Richmond public housing complex was a father of three and former Marine who founded a youth wrestling club and mentored disadvantaged kids, authorities said.
It's the first game at a service academy though quite possibly not the last. The league has explored doing games at the Army's home at West Point and at the Air Force Academy.
He’d wanted to serve his country since the day we all know now as 9/11, and Etienne J. Murphy was just 6 years old at the time.
The voice is that of a soft-spoken 28-year-old, but the message is vintage Osama bin Laden, giving orders to kill. When the audio recording began turning up on jihadist websites two weeks ago, it was as if the dead terrorist was channeling himself through his favorite son.
American and French flags marked each of the 14,246 graves at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery during an annual Memorial Day tribute Sunday.
The three youths – who are children of USFK personnel - are suspected of attacking two South Korean men after they bumped shoulders while walking near Sogang University around 2 a.m. Tuesday,
It’s been more than two years since the scandal-plagued Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office merged to form the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — a new U.S. government super-agency responsible for recovering America’s war dead.
Near a dried-out reservoir on the edge of this village is a dilapidated mud hut. The family that lived there until last month went so far as to strip off its straw roof and feed the material to their emaciated cattle. When the animals died anyway, the family disappeared.
Lt. James Downing steered his motorized scooter through a crowd of leather-clad bikers who stared in awe as he approached. The rumble of mufflers groaned in the distance as the 103-year-old Downing parked his three-wheeler in front of a man holding out a microphone, inviting him to speak.
Prime Minister Theresa May said the United Kingdom’s terrorism threat level has been lowered to “severe” from “critical” after arrests related to the May 22 attack in Manchester.
The 2nd Brigade Combat Team got to experience some of the Army’s best and most varied training without having to leave Fort Bliss.
Stone-throwing protesters clashed with security forces across the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir on Saturday after Indian soldiers killed eight suspected militants as part of a months-long crackdown in the disputed Himalayan territory.
Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution, scientists said. That's because America contributes so much to rising temperatures.
A recent fire has put a national laboratory's ability to operate safely into question. The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board announced Friday that it will hold a hearing next month to discuss the future of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.
A Saturday report by the semi-official Fars news agency quotes Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying that Saudi Arabia trades its wealth with "pagans and enemies."
A man who police say fatally stabbed two people who tried to stop him from yelling anti-Islamic slurs on a Portland light-rail train spent time in prison for robbery and kidnapping charges years ago, according to court records and a defense attorney.
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