USS Carney shoots down drone launched from Yemen
A U.S. official told the Associated Press that the Navy destroyer deemed the drone to be a threat and shot it down over water.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
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Don’t believe the hype about Fort Bliss
"Striking is the disparity between what people who’ve never been here presume about the region and what residents recognize as reality."
By Maj. Gen. Jim Isenhower, Oscar Leeser, Ricardo A. Samaniego
US-backed fighters launch final push to defeat ISIS in Syria
U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces said Saturday they have launched a final push to defeat the Islamic State group in the last tiny pocket the extremists hold in eastern Syria.
Blue Angels pilot makes emergency landing
The incident happened Tuesday in California.
Fort Bliss soldier charged with fatally stabbing woman, attacking two soldiers
The soldier allegedly stabbed the woman and attacked a lieutenant and a specialist, police say.
The Texas Guardsman arrested at the border for sexual assault was fired last year by county sheriff
A National Guard member arrested on a sexual assault charge while serving on the U.S.-Mexico border lost his job as a county jailer last year after being arrested for drunken driving and allegedly lying to investigators.
ISIS gunmen kill 40 US-backed fighters in eastern Syria
The Islamic State group killed at least 40 U.S.-backed Syrian fighters, captured several alive and regained areas they lost earlier this month in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border in some of the most intense fighting in weeks, a war monitor and an agency linked to ISIS said Saturday.
Notre Dame destroys Navy in San Diego 44-22
Ian Book threw for 330 yards and two touchdowns, Dexter Williams ran for 142 yards and three scores and No. 3 Notre Dame overwhelmed Navy 44-22 on Saturday night to remain undefeated and in the playoff picture.
San Diego sailor’s fatal stabbing was the grim conclusion of a Navy love triangle
The wife testified that she had been dating the man accused of murdering her husband.
By Jon Simkins
Here’s why a Navy command master chief got fired in May
Jeremy Embree was relieved as command master chief of Naval Air Facility El Centro in California in May.
Assad wants American troops out of Syria and threatens to attack region under US-backed Kurds
Syrian President Bashar Assad threatened to attack a region held by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, saying in an interview broadcast on Russia Today channel on Thursday that American troops should leave the country.
By Philip Issa, The Associated Press