While Afghan officials are welcoming the announcement by President Barack Obama that half of America's 66,000 troops in Afghanistan will be brought home within a year, some Afghan citizens are concerned.
Tuesday night the president announced his plan during the state of the union address, and it certainly has the marine community in Jacksonville talking.
The North Carolina House is unanimously backing efforts to increase criminal penalties for people who disrupt a funeral or memorial service in response to an anti-gay Kansas church picketing military funerals nationwide.
Obama said that his war goals could be achieved by bringing 34,000 U.S. troops home by this time next year, leaving somewhere between 32,000 and 34,000 to support and train Afghan forces.
Soldiers looking to get to computers to take care of everything from social media to house-hunting can find what they're looking for at any of five USO of North Carolina centers thanks to a donation from Lenovo.
A former U.S. ambassador to Mali has alleged that France paid a $17 million ransom to free hostages seized from a French mining site -- cash she said ultimately funded the al-Qaida-linked Islamist militants its troops are now fighting.
The 25-year-old man charged with murdering former Navy SEAL and "American Sniper" author Chris Kyle and his friend at a Texas gun range was an Iraq war veteran.
An internal government audit finds the Fayetteville Veterans Affairs Medical Center failed to fully follow up with veterans considered high suicide risks after their hospital discharge.
A Marine Corps survey found that about 17 percent of male Marines would likely leave the Corps if women move into combat positions. The number jumped to 22 percent if women were assigned involuntarily to those jobs, according to the survey.
Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others have marked the International Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and warnings to never let such horrors happen again.
The United States has decided to provide additional support to the French military in its war against Islamic militants in Mali by conducting aerial refueling missions.
Authorities say they arrested 24-year-old Sgt. Derek Percival at his Salisbury apartment on Saturday. He faces charges including sexual battery, false imprisonment and communicating threats.
A woman who is married to a female Army officer at Fort Bragg and was recently denied membership in its officers' spouses club says she has now been invited to become a full member.
Congressman Walter Jones of Farmville says President Barack Obama should be focused on maintaining "our military as the best fighting force in the world, not using it to advance his social agenda".
A U.N. expert is launching a special investigation into the drone warfare and targeted killings that the United States uses as front-line weapons in its global war against al-Qaida.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center ranks Germany, Italy and the U.S. as the most successful at investigating and prosecuting Nazi war crimes over the past year.
