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Byline: THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA -- Lead The Canadian Army is cancelling one of its most important training exercises as military commanders seek to protect the Canadian Armed Forces from [...]

Byline: Jennifer H. Svan The Air Force is considering changes to the way it conducts fitness assessments to prevent airmen from over-taxing their bodies to try to meet test standards, [...]

Byline: John Vandiver STUTTGART, Germany - The U.S. Army expects to know soon what changes must be made at ranges in Europe to meet new, more demanding marksmanship training requirements [...]

Byline: John Vandiver STUTTGART, Germany - The Army is revamping small-arms training with tougher marksmanship tests designed to better prepare troops - whether cook or infantryman - to shoot straight [...]

Byline: J.P. Lawrence KABUL, Afghanistan - A 10-year military program aimed at creating cultural experts in Central Asia will shut down next year, ending what some Afghanistan veterans said was [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration stepped up a dispute with Turkey on Friday, saying the Pentagon would end cooperation over its new fighter jet program because Turkey is refusing to [...]

WASHINGTON -- The United States and South Korea will suspend two large-scale joint military exercises this spring, two American officials said Friday, as part of President Trump's efforts to maintain [...]

For 70 years, women arriving at Marine Corps boot camp have learned to fire rifles, slide down ropes, and sprint through obstacle courses while separated from male counterparts. But now, [...]

Byline: Rose L. Thayer AUSTIN, Texas - Live-fire gunnery exercises at Fort Hood were suspended Tuesday until further notice due to ongoing wildfires on the post's expansive training grounds. According [...]

Byline: William Howard The Army is planning to rewrite the book on its Expert Infantryman Badge by September. Soldiers in a pilot program at Fort Benning, Ga., recently tested changes [...]

Byline: Tara Copp GARMISCH, Germany - The United States will extend its forward presence of forces in eastern Europe through 2020, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday, continuing a commitment [...]

Byline: Dan Stoutamire WIESBADEN, Germany - A team of Virginia-based soldiers is taking up residence at a strategic Romanian post this spring where they will manage the flow of large-scale [...]

Byline: John Vandiver U.S. Army Europe's aviators and their European counterparts are aiming to get more helicopters in the air for upcoming war games, increasing the profile of Army airpower [...]

WASHINGTON -- Nearly 30,000 foreign recruits have now poured into Syria, many to join the Islamic State, a doubling of volunteers in just the past 12 months and stark evidence [...]

The United States and India agreed Tuesday to train troops in six African countries before they are deployed to United Nations peacekeeping missions, Secretary of State John Kerry said. He [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine The Army announced Wednesday that it is opening its storied Ranger School to all soldiers, regardless of gender. This decision comes on the heels of the news [...]

ANTAKYA, Turkey -- A Pentagon program to train moderate Syrian insurgents to fight the Islamic State has been vexed by problems of recruitment, screening, dismissals and desertions that have left [...]

On Wednesday, the Army is scheduled to begin two months of training exercises across the American Southwest. If the past is a reasonable guide, some on the outer reaches of [...]

Byline: Tom Vanden Brook, @tvandenbrook, USA TODAY The Pentagon has begun paying modest stipends to the Syrian moderates it hopes to field in the fight against Islamic State militants, the [...]

Byline: Lisa Suhay It's been said that actor and martial arts master Chuck Norris 'can put out a fire using a gallon of gasoline.' But Mr. Norris' claim that the [...]

Byline: Taylor Luck For much of Syria's civil war, Jordan has quietly supported the rebels fighting to topple the regime. In recent months, various coalitions of rebel forces have scored [...]

Byline: Karen DeYoung About 200 Syrian opposition fighters will begin military training next month in Turkey, despite ongoing Turkish disagreement with the Obama administration over the enemy they will combat [...]

MOSCOW -- The Kremlin on Friday warned that the arrival of several hundred American military trainers in Ukraine could ''destabilize the situation'' in the country's southeast, where a cease-fire between [...]

MAO, Chad -- An oath of allegiance from Boko Haram, the Nigeria-based militant group, to the Islamic State on Saturday reinforces Western fears that the terrorist group is growing beyond [...]

Byline: Michael Holtz Lithuania plans to restore compulsory military service for young men amid mounting fears of Russian assertiveness in the Baltic region. President Dalia Grybauskaite said Tuesday the measure [...]

Byline: Anna Mulrine The United States effort to find and train 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight against the Islamic State and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has begun in [...]

Byline: Craig Whitlock The Pentagon is sending 3,600 troops to Thailand this week to participate in a major military exercise, U.S. officials said, even though the country remains under the [...]

MUGLA, Turkey -- Turkey is ready to conclude an agreement this month to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels as part of the American-led effort to combat Islamic State fighters, [...]

Byline: Missy Ryan U.S. military officials are considering ways to ramp up training of Syrian fightersÃáagainst the Islamic State as the Pentagon moves cautiouslyÃáforward with a revamped program to create [...]