A Taliban suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy in Kabul Tuesday, killing six of its servicemembers, five of them American, officials said. Twelve Afghan civilians also died — many of them in a public bus in rush hour traffic.

Some of the country’s most popular “milbloggers” – men and women who blog about the military for a mostly military audience – issued a joint statement May 11 that exhorted Congress to be ready to act on Pentagon recommendations in December for ending the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that bars gays from serving openly [...]

The first full military commission hearings here since Barack Obama became president and pledged to deliver transparency were no more open than the court process had been under President George W. Bush, critics say.

As Defense Secretary Robert Gates begins another push for Pentagon cuts, NATO is preparing to follow suit. Adm. James Stavridis, the supreme allied commander of NATO, said Monday he will look to make “significant” cuts of both flag officers – generals and admirals – as well as staff for the U.S. and NATO allies.

The military did no advance testing on a specific type of military GPS receiver that had problems picking up locator signals after a change in ground-control software, the Air Force said Monday.

British combat troops are far less likely to suffer PTSD than their American counterparts, according a recent psychiatric study. Just 4 percent of Brits who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan exhibit symptoms of PTSD compared with 10 to 20 percent of Americans.

Germany’s president said Monday he had rejected a request for clemency from a leftist terrorist serving a life sentence for the murder of a U.S. soldier and the deadly bombing of an American base.

Despite their skepticism of the circumstances of Khan’s wounds, the Soldiers erased any prejudice over friend and foe – he was a person who needed help. “Was he planting an IED or did he just stumble on one?” one Soldier wondered. “Sometimes you just don’t know.”

An anonymous donation means there is a $125,000 reward posted for tips leading to the conviction of whoever stole a cross that served as a memorial to Americans who served during World War I.

An Iraqi police official says assailants wearing Iraqi military uniforms beheaded a Sunni cleric and displayed his head on an electricity pole in the town where he preached against al-Qaida.