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Michigan weapons company Trijicon takes flak for rifle scopes with Bible verse

A Michigan weapons company is under fire for branding thousands of rifle scopes used by U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan with passages from the

Britain bans Islamist group at centre of march row

Britain will outlaw an Islamist group that provoked anger with a plan to march through a town where British troops killed in Afghanistan are honored, the interior minister announced Tuesday.

The danger of hired guns

Private security contractors are set to make up half of the military presence in Afghanistan, but has the US lost control of them?

Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes (Updated)

Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the

The fallacies of military intervention: Obama on Afghanistan and Vietnam

Yet this argument [the similarity of Vietnam to Afghanistan] depends on a false reading of history.” President Barack Obama

Afghanistan Hub Gets Half-Billion-Dollar Facelift

Southern Afghanistan is the initial focus of the military’s rapid, six-month troop buildup. And in recent months, Kandahar Airfield, the main logistics hub in southern

All Blacks to mark Remembrance Sunday with poppy

The All Blacks will mark Remembrance Sunday this weekend by wearing red poppies embroidered on their jerseys for the Test match against Wales at Millennium