As of Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at least 4,385 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least ...

The number of reports of sexual assault in the US military rose by 11 percent in 2009, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. The Defense Department attributed the spike in part to efforts to encourage victims to report such assaults. The department recorded 3,230 complaints of sexual assault in fiscal year 2009, which involved members of the military -- either as ...

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died in a vehicle accident in Iraq. A statement by the military says the United States Division -North soldier died of injuries sustained in a vehicle roll-over while conducting a patrol in northern Iraq on Monday. It says three other soldiers were injured and evacuated to a military medical facility where ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The leaders of France and Germany said they would consult their EU partners over concerns that protectionism is at play in a big U.S. military tanker deal that looks set to go to Boeing. U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS withdrew last week from a long-running competition to supply tanker planes to ...