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Today, the Defense Department announced the recertification of some locations as imminent danger pay areas while discontinuing that designation for others. -
The military is investigating the death of Marine Corps Sgt. Jacob M. Hess, 22, who lost his life in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on New Year's Day. Hess is the first U.S. service member to die in Afghanistan in 2014. -
The American service member killed in Friday's suicide bomb attack near Kabul, Afghanistan has been identified as Air Force Capt. David Lyon. -
The widow of Sgt. Daniel M. Vasselian said her husband joined the Marine Corps because he "wanted to be great." Vasselian died Dec. 23 in Afghanistan when the enemy ambushed his Humvee. -
Three NATO soldiers, one of them American, were killed Friday when a suicide car bomb hit their convoy in Afghanistan. -
Burglars stole thousands of dollars worth of Christmas gifts from Army Cpl. Chris Petrossian's home he purchased online while he was deployed to Afghanistan. But residents of the California town of Lodi stepped up to make sure the Petrossian family didn't go without on Christmas day. -
Two NATO International Security Assistance Force members were killed Monday in Afghanistan, in separate attacks, after enemy forces hit them with direct fire. -
On December 19, Congress extended the special visa program for Iraqi and Afghan interpreters and mandated improvements. -
The Department of Defense has released the names of the six U.S. soldiers who died Tuesday when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan. Killed were: Chief Warrant Officer 2 Randy L. Billings, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joshua B. Silverman, Sgt. Peter C. Bohler, Sgt. 1st Class Omar W. Forde, Staff Sgt. Jesse L. Williams, and Spc. Terry K. D. Gordon. -
Two of the six soldiers killed in Tuesday's Black Hawk helicopter crash in Afghanistan have been identified as helicopter crew chief Chris Bohler, 29, and Staff Sgt. Jesse Lee Williams, 30.
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