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Rumour says that the future of the American Marine Corp is going to be in Afghanistan. News that the bush administration is retooling it Afghanistan Stratergy and the fact that the Marines will soon be turning over the security responsibility for the...
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AP, San Diego
The attorneys for two Marines charged in the killing of unarmed Iraqi detainees accused prosecutors Friday of intimidation by delaying the court-martial of one to try...
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AP, Riverside
Prosecutors want to drop contempt proceedings against two Marines who refused to testify against their former squad leader when he was being tried for the killings of...
made popular Sep 23 2008
AP, Camp Lejeune
A top commander acted properly by removing a Marine special operations unit from Afghanistan amid allegations that members killed as many as 19 civilians after a car...
made popular Sep 16 2008
AP, San Diego
The Marine Corps is no longer allowing troops who have extra-large tattoos on their arms to serve as recruiters or security guards at U.S. embassies.
made popular Sep 15 2008
AP, Kabul
U.S. Marines who took back a key town in southern Afghanistan from Taliban militants in an operation earlier this year turned over responsibility for the area to...
made popular Sep 8 2008
AP, San Diego
A jury has found San Diego Gas & Electric negligent in the deaths of four Marines who were killed when their helicopter hit an unlit utility tower on Camp...
made popular Sep 4 2008
AP, San Diego
The drawdown of Marines from the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Anbar will take time because there is still much work to be done, a top U.S. commander said Sunday...
made popular Aug 31 2008
AP, Washington
President Bush witnessed cannons firing, guns flinging and heavy marching at a Marines parade Friday night while visiting their barracks.
made popular Aug 30 2008
AP, San Diego
Some members of the civilian jury that acquitted a former Marine accused of war crimes in Iraq say they weren’t qualified to judge actions in combat, and military...
made popular Aug 29 2008
AP, Riverside
A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter Thursday in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Riverside
A former Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees has been acquitted of voluntary manslaughter in a first-of-its-kind federal trial.
made popular Aug 28 2008
AP, Riverside
A federal jury on Wednesday began deliberating whether a former Marine squad leader committed manslaughter in Iraq, marking the first time in which civilians will...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Riverside
The defense has rested without calling a single witness at the civilian trial in Southern California of a former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq.
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Riverside
A former Marine sergeant testified Tuesday at the civilian trial of a former squad leader accused of manslaughter that he saw the body of an Iraqi man on the floor and...
made popular Aug 27 2008
AP, Riverside
A judge found two Marines in contempt of court Friday for refusing to testify against a former squad leader accused of killing unarmed detainees in Iraq, but he...
made popular Aug 22 2008
AP, Riverside
A judge has refused to jail two Marines but found them in contempt of court for refusing to testify against a former squad leader accused of killing unarmed detainees...
made popular Aug 22 2008
AP, Riverside
A judge has ordered two Marines to disclose whether they will testify against their former squad leader who is the first to be tried under a federal law that allows the...
made popular Aug 22 2008
AP, Riverside
A former Marine charged with killing unarmed detainees in Iraq did what he did to save his comrades, his attorney said Thursday as opening statements in the...
made popular Aug 21 2008
AP, Irvine
A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of...
made popular Aug 17 2008
AP, San Diego
The screams of agony from the soldier echoed through the ballroom-turned-theater, forcing a hushed whisper among those witnessing his sudden break with reality.
made popular Aug 14 2008
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AP, Kabul
U.S. Marines who took back a key town in southern Afghanistan from Taliban militants in an operation earlier this year turned over responsibility for the area to...
made popular Sep 8 2008
AP, Baghdad
Iraqi troops captured two suspected insurgents linked to a suicide bombing that killed three U.S. Marines and several Sunni sheiks, the military said Friday.
made popular Aug 1 2008
AP, Kabul
A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April.Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th...
made popular Jul 9 2008
AP, Kabul
A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April.Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th...
made popular Jul 9 2008
AP, Kabul
A U.S. Marines commander says his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since April.Col. Peter Petronzio, the commander of the 24th Marine...
made popular Jul 9 2008
AP, Cairo
Al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq has released an Internet statement claiming responsibility for an attack that killed more than 20 people, including three U.S....
made popular Jun 28 2008
AP, Baghdad
A member of an extremist cell believed to be behind a suicide attack that killed more than 20 people including three U.S. Marines has been arrested, the U.S. military...
made popular Jun 27 2008
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military on Friday postponed a ceremony to hand over Anbar province to Iraqi security control, citing forecasts of sandstorms. The announcement came a day...
made popular Jun 27 2008
NATO allies have yet to come up with replacements for a key deployment of some 3,000 U.S. Marines due to leave Afghanistan later this year, alliance officials said...
made popular Jun 14 2008
AP, Kabul
Afghan officials expressed outrage Saturday at a decision by the U.S. military not to charge U.S. Marines involved in a shooting spree that left 19 Afghan civilians...
made popular May 24 2008
AP, Garmser
U.S. Marines who once planned to be in this southern Afghan town for just a few days are extending their mission by several weeks after facing an influx of Taliban...
made popular May 14 2008
AP, Outside Garmser
U.S. Marines exchanged gunfire with militants Tuesday after pouring into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region...
made popular Apr 29 2008
AP, Outside Garmser
U.S. Marines are moving into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years.Several hundred Marines are...
made popular Apr 29 2008
AP, Helmand Province
U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition that is growing but still short on...
made popular Apr 26 2008
AP, Baghdad
A bomb-rigged truck exploded at a checkpoint Tuesday near the western city of Ramadi, killing two U.S. Marines and wounding three others in an apparent strike by...
made popular Apr 22 2008
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military says that two U.S. Marines have been killed in Iraq’s western Anbar province.A military statement says the two died Sunday when their vehicle...
made popular Apr 16 2008
AP, Baghdad
The U.S. military said Monday it will release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, more than two years after he was detained by U.S. Marines on suspicions of...
made popular Apr 14 2008
AP, Toledo
One of three men accused of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers overseas showed a government informant videos displaying gruesome beheadings and U.S. Marines killing Iraqis,...
made popular Apr 4 2008
AP, Kabul
Some of the 3,200 U.S. Marines slated for a seven-month deployment to Afghanistan’s volatile south have begun arriving at the region’s largest base...
made popular Mar 18 2008
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