Joint Chiefs Supported Bergdahl Prisoner Swap The service chiefs were kept of the loop on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl release negotiations but later backed the prisoner swap.
US to Temporarily Hold Captured ISIS Leaders for Interrogation The U.S. will hold for about a month captured ISIS leaders for interrogation before turning them over to local authorities.
Report: US Wants to Swap Taliban for Bergdahl The Obama administration has decided to revive talks with the Afghan Taliban in an effort to free Bowe Bergdahl.
Bergdahl Gets Army Desk Job Army Sgt. Bergdahl has been given a desk job at a Texas military base while he awaits the outcome of an investigation.
Vietnam-Era POW Demonstrates 'Tap Code' at POW/MIA Ceremony POW/MIA Day featured a pilot held prisoner in North Vietnam tapping out the special code used by prisoners to communicate.
Pentagon Stands Up New POW/MIA Remains Agency Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made sweeping changes to how the Pentagon searches for missing service members’ remains.
Bergdahl Hires Yale Scholar as Lead Counsel Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier for whom the U.S. traded five senior Taliban operatives held at Guantanamo Bay, hired a...
Military Denies Foot-Dragging on POW Release The Defense Department pushed back Thursday against allegations that bureaucratic infighting was hampering the effort to find...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
