Last Thursday, the Iraqi Parliament ratified the Status of Forces Agreement, a deal to have U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2011. SOFA hits home for many Americans, especially those with family and friends ...

The parents of LaVena Johnson — Missouri's first female soldier to die in Iraq — have been working since her death in July 2005 to prove she didn't commit suicide, as the Army contends. John and Linda ...

The U.S. military's culture of silence about troops' mental health finally had begun to change. In the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the branches had been roundly criticized for ...

Lt. Elizabeth Whiteside, a psychiatric outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was waiting for the Army to decide whether to court-martial her for endangering another soldier and turning a ...

Thousands of buildings at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan have such poorly installed wiring that American troops face life-threatening risks, a top inspector for the Army says. "It was horrible -- ...

(Adds report ordered by Congress) By Dean Yates BAGHDAD, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has suggested he would recommend a cut in U.S. troop ...

White socks, foot powder, sun block, beef jerky, cookies, trail mix and green tea. That was the wish list of a Marine and former Kenilworth resident now serving in the desert of northern Iraq. A care ...

BAGHDAD (AP) - Two American soldiers were killed in a rocket attack that struck their unit in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday. Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, ...