President Barack Obama plans to nominate former Procter & Gamble executive Robert McDonald as the next Veterans Affairs secretary, as the White House seeks to shore up an agency beset by treatment delays and struggling to deal with an influx of new veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Obama administration justified using drones to kill Americans suspected of terrorism overseas by citing the war against al-Qaida and by saying a surprise attack against an American in a foreign land would not violate the laws of war.
President Barack Obama on Thursday said he was dispatching up to 300 military advisers to Iraq to help quell the rising insurgency in the crumbling state. He called on Iraqi leaders to govern with a more “inclusive agenda” to ensure the country does not descend into civil war.
Five American troops were killed in an apparent coalition airstrike in southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, in one of the worst friendly fire incidents involving United States and coalition troops since the start of the nearly 14-year war.
Career Navy veteran Ron Deanne of Henderson will do what Army Pvt. Ed Jennings couldn’t do in 1984 and pay his respects to those who participated in the Normandy invasion 70 years ago.
Seventy years after the D-Day invasion of Normandy to liberate France from the grip of Germany’s Nazi regime, Las Vegas barber Gaetano “Guy” R. Benza, part of the Allied Expeditionary Force, returned there today to reflect on his life-changing experience.
NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, June 16, 1944 — I took a walk along the historic coast of Normandy in the country of France.
On the second day of landings at Normandy, Army Pfc. Benjamin Goo remembers the bullets flying and the sight of soldiers’ bodies as his unit penetrated the shoreline on Omaha Beach to join the invasion of Nazi-occupied France.
As Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl recovers from five years as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan and amid questions about whether he was a deserter, some who know him say his personality is too multi-faceted to be summed up so neatly in black and white.
