U.S. Military

KILLEEN, Texas - President Barack Obama has flown to Texas to lead a memorial service at Fort Hood Army base for the people killed in last week's shooting rampage and to console their relatives and loved ones. Full Story »

TOKYO (AFP) - US President Barack Obama urged Japan's new centre-left government on Tuesday to keep a pact allowing US bases on its territory, as both sides laid the groundwork for his visit to Tokyo this week. Full Story »

TOKYO (AFP) - US President Barack Obama thinks a US military bases pact with Japan, now under review by a new government in Tokyo, serves Japan's interest and will continue, he said in comments broadcast Tuesday. Full Story »

As of Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at least 836 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 Monday at 10 a.m. EST. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A dispute over the relocation of a key US military base in Japan will not be a "dominant" or "essential" feature of President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo, a senior US official said Monday. Full Story »

FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - The suspected shooter accused of killing 13 people at a US military base has regained consciousness and can talk, fueling hopes Monday he may soon reveal the motive behind the attack. Full Story »

Army Sgt. Ryan C. Adams Full Story »

FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - US military commanders need to pay close attention to soldiers showing signs of stress and get them help after a shooting rampage here last week, the head of Fort Hood army base said on Monday. Full Story »

Army Spc. Paul E. Andersen Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will travel to Texas on Monday to meet with families of those killed in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood military base, his press secretary said. Full Story »

FORT HOOD, Texas (AFP) - The suspected shooter said to have killed 13 people and wounded 30 others on a US army base has regained consciousness and is talking, a hospital official said Monday. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will delay the start of his visit to Asia this week to attend a memorial service for soldiers killed in a mass shooting at a U.S. military base, an administration official said on Sunday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Two US army pilots were killed when their helicopter crash landed at an American base in Salaheddin province in central Iraq, the military said in a statement on Monday. Full Story »

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has agreed to sell its TASC consulting unit to two buyout firms, General Atlantic and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co , for $1.65 billion, the companies said on Sunday. Full Story »

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A top US army officer said on Sunday he did not have confidence in a hand-held device used by Iraq's security forces to detect explosives and stop suicide bombers passing through checkpoints. Full Story »

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas' Fort Hood military base was an act of "Islamist extremism." Full Story »

NEW YORK (AFP) - The USS New York, an amphibious transport ship built with steel salvaged from the World Trade Center, was commissioned in a solemn ceremony. Full Story »

GINOWAN, Japan (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Okinawan residents rallied Sunday against a US military base on the island, raising the heat in a simmering row days before US President Barack Obama is due in Japan. Full Story »