In eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as government troops and militia allies battle Rwanda-backed M23 rebels for control of mineral-rich land, civilians pay the price in a brutal war.

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

In 1943, a battered B-17 Flying Fortress sat in a scrapyard, written off after repeated combat damage and burdened with the ...

The American recapture in World War II of Corregidor Island from the Japanese garrison in the Philippines began with a daring, highly risky parachute drop by the 503rd Parachute Regiment on Feb. 16, ...

Operation Hailstone, the two-day carrier assault launched 82 years ago this week, demolished Japan's largest overseas naval installation and sent more than 40 ships beneath the waves.

In March 1943, during World War II, American B-25 bombers flew directly toward a heavily defended Japanese convoy at just ...

No more back in the United States, than Marvin was sent to Australia, arriving July 15, 1942. He was now part of the Fifth Air Force, 43rd Bombardment Group flying in the Southwest Pacific theater. By ...

Twenty junior Australian Defence Force leaders took part in Exercise Kanga Return late last year, following in the footsteps ...

Among the consequences of the rise and fall of empires in the last couple of centuries has been the formation, in the territories they formerly governed, of the political entities we call nations; ...

A New Jersey pilot and his co-pilot have been jailed in a West African country for almost six weeks after landing there to refuel. CBS News New York's Christine Sloan spoke to both men on the phone on ...

Two American pilots have been imprisoned in the Republic of Guinea for six weeks — after authorities said they violated the country’s airspace for a simple fuel stop, The Post has learned. Fabio ...

We descended into Chibichibi Cave in southern Okinawa with the heavy feeling that this was not a site of distant history, but a warning. The cave is low enough that you have to bend forward as you ...