U.S. Military

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.

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - The remains of seven military service members killed in separate incidents in Afghanistan have been returned to the United States.

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.

KABUL (AFP) - Fourteen cases of swine flu have been detected among US soldiers stationed at the biggest military base in Afghanistan, the government and the military said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Fourteen new cases of the H1N1 flu virus have been reported among U.S. citizens on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, the Afghan Health Ministry said on Wednesday, the second confirmed cases in three months.

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

DUBAI (AFP) - The Taliban militia on Monday said it has captured an American soldier in Afghanistan who went missing last week, the monitoring service SITE Intelligence said.

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.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghanistan's insurgent Taliban movement said Monday they had launched a guerrilla operation to thwart a major assault by newly deployed US Marines on their Helmand strongholds.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (AFP) - Seven ISAF soldiers were killed in insurgent attacks in Afghanistan Monday as the Taliban announced it would resist a US Marine assault on its strongholds with a guerrilla campaign.

KABUL (Reuters) - Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in attacks across Afghanistan on Monday, including four in one bombing in the north, amid a spike in violence as the U.S. military pushed ahead with a big new offensive, officials said.

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese court on Monday ordered the state to pay 76 million yen (800,000 dollars) to the family of a former US military base employee who died of lung cancer after being exposed to asbestos.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed at least two civilians in an attack outside a major international military base on Monday in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a Taliban stronghold, army officials said.