Stars & Stripes

A Kunsan airman remains in critical condition after a Sunday night taxi crash left him and a second airman hospitalized, according to the base and local police.

On the surface, it would seem Amber Gadsden is living the high life of a champion high school tennis player. The junior just completed the finest singles season in Guam High history. Twelve victories in as many matches. A school-first perfect 9-0 regular season and an Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam tournament title for the girls.

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — Airman 1st Class Leonard R. Barnes III, a fuels specialist with the 18th Logistics Readiness Squadron, was found dead Sunday in his dormitory room, base officials rep...

The Taliban claimed responsibility Wednesday for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At an encampment on the outskirts of Haiti's capital, physicians from three international aid agencies provide identical services. On a charter flight to Miami, comp...

Faced with a crushing influx of disability claims from Vietnam War veterans exposed to the toxic defoliant Agent Orange, the Department of Veterans Affairs said Tuesday it would automate part of the cumbersome system that has left many thousands of veterans waiting many months and sometimes years for payments.

U.S. lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday that NATO countries were not offering more personnel to train the Afghan army. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee grilled the alliance's top military leader, Adm. James Stavridis, during his visit to Capitol Hill.

A U.S.-based team will be in Germany next week to recruit soldiers for the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, based at Fort Meade, Md. The special-missions unit is looking for enlisted sol...

WIESBADEN, Germany — An online survey that helps determine cost-of-living allowance rates is available to troops in Italy until March 31. The Living Pattern Survey takes about 30 minutes ...

Your report on how Michael Jackson's music is effectively helping with crowd control in Haiti reminds me once again that even though he isn't here with us anymore, Jackson is still the best goo...

I couldn't help but respond to "Gays issue a matter of logic" (letter, March 8). Seriously? Don't let ...

I have watched letters to the editor on "don't ask, don't tell" since they started appearing and find many good points on both sides. Some letters I find both amusing and scary...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates walked the streets of Now Zad on Tuesday, surveying the city that was "the first test" of the new counterinsurgency strategy and the model for the offensive in nearby Marjah.

SEOUL — A career educator who has worked at schools for U.S. military dependents in Bahrain, Germany, England and Japan will be the principal of Casey Elementary School in South Korea when it o...

High school Okinawa Baseball Saturday's summary Kadena 7, Naha Sola 5 At Chibana Recreation Area Naha Sola 020 110 1—5 Kadena 510 100 x—7 Batting—...

U.S. military and local Japanese officials are looking to fine-tune their emergency response systems after reviewing lessons learned from the Feb. 28 tsunami tidal swells that threatened coastal areas on the mainland and Okinawa.

More than 200 veterans of the World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots program gathered in Washington Tuesday as they prepared to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.

Behind several secure doors requiring top-secret clearance sit analysts who conduct counterterrorism investigations in the Philippines, analyze military buildups in Venezuela, and dissect confrontations between China and Taiwan in the strait that separates them.

LOS ANGELES — The United States will work with Haiti to hold elections as soon as practical, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday morning after meeting with Haitian President ...