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PARIS (AFP) - Substantial damage was caused to the ancient city of Babylon by a military base set up there after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a UNESCO report released Thursday.
WEDNESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) -- In a turnabout from prior recommendations, a new study says soldiers who need electrical spinal cord stimulation to relieve chronic back pain may be able to return to active duty.
As of Wednesday, July 8, 2009, at least 647 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT.
PITTSBURGH - A former defense-contracting executive from Pennsylvania intends to plead guilty to a kickback scheme after his case is transferred to a federal court in northern Florida.
WASHINGTON - It was July 1959 and Stanley Karnow, Time magazine's chief correspondent in Asia, was on his first trip to Saigon when he heard about an attack at an Army base about 20 miles north of the city.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will spend about C$5 billion ($4.3 billion) on light armored vehicles for its military, the government said on Wednesday.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee is planning to demand a congressional inquiry into the death of a Houston sailor whose body was found in a guard shack at Oceanside, Calif.'s Camp Pendleton military base last week.
As the Pentagon looks for ways to relax "Don't ask, don't tell" prohibitions, a crime at Camp Pendleton is raising fears that the stigma remains
RALEIGH, N.C. - A woman whose husband was stationed at a North Carolina military base has filed a lawsuit claiming the government knowingly exposed hundreds of thousands of Marines to contaminated drinking water.