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HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. -- The following information was released by the Air Force Air Combat Command: by Senior Airman Leah Ferrante 49th Wing Public Affairs Major Clarence Anderson [...]

The following editorial appeared in Tuesday's Washington Post: Whether the right decisions were rendered last week in the military's two high-profile cases of sexual assault is a matter of some [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Bringing an end to a closely watched military sexual misconduct trial, a judge on Thursday reprimanded Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair for, among other offenses, mistreating [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hlad Members of Congress and victim advocacy groups reacted with horror and resignation Thursday to news that Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair will avoid jail time and instead [...]

On Monday, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair avoided prosecution on sexual assault charges that could have brought him a life sentence. In an agreement with the prosecutor, General Sinclair pleaded guilty [...]

Byline: Craig Whitlock The legal defense team for a general whose sex-crime trial has gripped the U.S. military said Sunday that the Army had agreed to drop the most serious [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine In the past 50 years, the Army has court-martialed only two generals. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair became the third when his trial began in Fort Bragg, N.C., [...]

WASHINGTON -- A sergeant responsible for advising students at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., has pleaded guilty in a case that included accusations that he secretly [...]

As one major battle over sexual assault in the military plays out in North Carolina this week, another is set to unfold in Washington. At Fort Bragg, Army prosecutors will [...]

In new court papers, Army officials have acknowledged that the lead prosecutor in the court-martial of a brigadier general accused of sexual misconduct believed that the most serious charges would [...]

One week after the lead prosecutor in the court-martial of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair abruptly quit the case, defense lawyers have asked a military judge to dismiss sexual misconduct charges [...]

A former soldier sentenced to life for raping and killing a teenage Iraqi girl and killing her family died at the federal penitentiary in Tucson over the weekend in what [...]

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- In an apparently unprecedented ruling, 152 former members of the Bangladesh Rifles, a paramilitary border security force, were sentenced to death on Tuesday in connection with a [...]

ISTANBUL -- Turkey's highest appeals court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 237 military officers accused of plotting to overthrow the government a decade ago. The case, which has riveted [...]

A Pakistani court granted bail on Wednesday to Pervez Musharraf, the country's former military ruler, clearing the way for him to leave the country as early as Thursday, his lawyers [...]

The president ordered the arrest of a high-ranking army commander over suspected violations of human rights, a military spokesman said Tuesday. Brig. Gen. James Otong was relieved of his command [...]

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. -- One by one, the Afghan men and boys took the witness stand inside a military courtroom on Tuesday to tell of a night of gunfire, [...]

WASHINGTON -- In an effort to stop military lawyers from using comments by President Obama to prevent sexual assault prosecutions, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has sent out a directive ordering [...]

A Thai court said Tuesday that soldiers killed six people in 2010 at a Buddhist temple during the military crackdown on antigovernment demonstrators in Bangkok. The inquest found that six [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's leading Democrat on military issues released two letters from the Pentagon on Wednesday to argue that allowing military commanders to retain their authority over sexual assault [...]

OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Among the scores of memories that Tiffany Lucas collected during her years as a Marine gunnery sergeant, she wears most of them with pride. When a superior [...]

HAIFA, Israel -- AROUND the age of 16, most Jewish Israeli high school students go to ''Gadna,'' the Israeli military's voluntary youth corps, where they spend a week training for [...]

Byline: Chris Carroll WASHINGTON - In a dramatic hearing Wednesday focused on sexual assault in the military, the Senate Armed Services Committee knocked down an effort to strip military commanders [...]

Byline: Chris Carroll WASHINGTON - Military commanders would no longer have the authority to overturn court-martial verdicts in major criminal cases under a proposed change to the Uniform Code of [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hlad WASHINGTON - A California congresswoman has introduced legislation to take the power to dismiss or overturn convictions and sentences away from military commanders - a response to [...]

Byline: Nancy Montgomery Responding to growing political uproar over an Air Force lieutenant general's decision to throw out a fighter pilot's jury conviction for aggravated sexual assault, Defense Secretary Chuck [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED WASHINGTON -- The collapse this week of the prosecution of a Marine for a civilian massacre in Haditha, Iraq -- a striking outcome, even in a military justice [...]

To stop the attacks, Israelis have to see the whole picture The terrible terrorist attacks that took place today are part of a campaign that the Israeli government is able [...]

Byline: Ben Arnoldy The retired general who ended Sri Lanka's civil war appeared before a military court Tuesday as a prisoner, a fall from grace widely seen as an effort [...]

Byline: Mian Ridge The arrest of Gen. Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka's recently defeated presidential candidate and former Army chief, has raised concerns that a wider repression of the country's political [...]

An American soldier who is accused of killing five other service members on a base in May had been behaving erratically for weeks -- even threatening to commit suicide -- […]

Byline: CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD; cblatchford@globeandmail.com It was early on the morning of Saturday, July 8, 2006, that I saw my first dead and injured Talibs. There was one of each. I [...]

Bolivian officials said Tuesday they had asked the United States to extradite former President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, who ordered a military crackdown in 2003 in which at least 60 […]

Byline: JEFF SALLOT; With reports from Christie Blatchford and Canadian Press OTTAWA -- A Canadian soldier was charged yesterday with manslaughter and negligent performance of duty in the shooting death [...]

A court-martial on Wednesday dropped charges against four of seven soldiers accused of mistreating Iraqi civilians, an unexpected twist in a politically charged trial that jeopardized the reputation of the […]

Byline: Donna Leinwand WASHINGTON -- Three high-ranking U.S. Army Reserve officers were charged Wednesday with steering more than $8.6 million in Iraqi reconstruction contracts to a U.S. businessman in exchange [...]

An Army lieutenant at Fort Lewis who said he refused to deploy to Iraq because he believed the war there was illegal was charged with three counts. According to calculations […]

Byline: Jackie Speier (CNN) -- After facing a long list of charges including sexual assault, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair agreed to plead guilty this week to much lesser charges in [...]