1,800 California National Guardsmen activated for LA fire response
California Governor Gavin Newsom increased the number of Guardsmen over the weekend, as the death toll for the wildfires climbed to 24.
By Riley Ceder
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US Navy decommissions Bonhomme Richard after fire destroyed amphibious assault ship in July
The amphibious assault ship is expected to be towed to a ship yard in Texas for dismantling.
Army veteran planned to bomb Nazi rally, US officials say
An Army veteran who converted to Islam and discussed launching various terror attacks throughout Southern California was arrested as he plotted to bomb a white supremacist rally as retribution for the New Zealand mosque attacks, federal prosecutors said Monday.
US strikes ISIS-held mosque as Syria battle intensifies
The U.S. military said Tuesday it struck a mosque that had allegedly been used as an Islamic State control center, as American-allied Syrian forces battled the extremists in their last stronghold in eastern Syria amid reports of more civilian casualties.
South Korea blows up its own guard posts as part of deal with North Korea
The destruction is part of the Koreas' plan to dismantle or disarm 11 of guard posts by the end of this month.
Did US drones swarm a Russian base? Probably not, but that capability isn’t far off.
"It is sometimes hard to tell which claims Russian officials believe and which are merely rhetoric,” one observer of Russian defense policy said.
By Kyle Rempfer
Coalition airstrike targets mosque used by Islamic State
The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group says an airstrike on a mosque in Syria last week targeted an insurgent command and control center and killed a dozen fighters.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
US airstrike wiped out al-Shabab camp in Somalia, intel officials say
The U.S. said the strike was meant to deny the al-Qaida-linked group the ability to reconsolidate.
This move was a ‘living nightmare’ — and it’s just one example from a brutal PCS season for troops, families
Heirloom vases destroyed, dining room tables broken.... this is the PCS season.
By Karen Jowers
Guilty plea in military recruiting center fire in Virgin Islands
A man who had moved to the U.S. Virgin Islands from Texas has admitted setting fires that destroyed a military recruiting office and damaged two other federal properties in the territory.
Trump calls for crushing terrorists with military means
President Donald Trump denounced the deadly mosque attack in Egypt and reached out to its president, asserting the world must crush terrorists by military means — and insisting the U.S. needs a southern border wall and the travel ban tied up in courts.
By Jill Colvin, The Associated Press