Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan are facing a “financial crisis” as NATO-led troops have disrupted the center of their lucrative opium trade, a top U.S. general said.

A chaplain killed in Afghanistan this week was the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War, the military said Thursday.

Like many other vets, Don Fosburg marked the anniversary of World War II’s end reflecting on a victory dearly earned and on men who helped make that happen but never came home.

Six U.S. Soldiers and a Turk have been quarantined in an Istanbul hospital after a suspicious powder was found in a parcel at the city’s main airport, Anatolia news agency reported Friday.

U.S. and Afghan troops have beaten back another attempt by the Haqqani Network to overrun a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan.

A federal judge overturned Nebraska’s ban on flag mutilation Thursday, clearing the way for Kansas church protesters to continue trampling on the U.S. flag when they protest at military funerals.

An oil platform exploded off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in five months. The Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed. The Coast Guard initially said that an oil sheen had begun to spread from the site.

Even as President Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American Soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.

China on Thursday dismissed reports saying troops of the People’s Liberation Army are in a disputed area of Pakistan.

An Army private is undergoing medical tests to determine his mental state in a case alleging he leaked classified material to WikiLeaks, his lawyer said Wednesday.