International Military Intervention

Obama forced again to rethink troop numbers in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON – Fifteen years into the war that few Americans talk about anymore, conditions in Afghanistan are getting worse, preventing the clean ending that President Barack Obama hoped to i...

DATE: Jan 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Abduction of Americans in Iraq raises fears about security

BAGHDAD – The abduction of three Americans from a Baghdad apartment over the weekend is the latest in a series of brazen high-profile kidnappings undermining confidence in the Iraqi governme...

DATE: Jan 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In shattered Ramadi, a test of Iraqi unity

City ‘totally destroyed’ from years of war

DATE: Jan 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

French transplants in La Plata County horrified by terrorism

Hopes those from Middle East won’t face baseless prejudice

DATE: Nov 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Pentagon giving up on building new Syrian rebel force

Military to focus on aiding groups already fighting

DATE: Oct 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

19 dead in bombing of Afghan hospital

Unclear who attacked center for Doctors Without Borders

DATE: Oct 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Military hearing on Bergdahl desertion charges begins

HOUSTON – A hearing to decide if Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should face a military trial for leaving his post in Afghanistan began Thursday – proceedings that his lead lawyer said would reveal detai...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Germany urges EU to accept refugees

MUNICH – Embracing its role as a defender of those in need, Germany welcomed at least 10,000 more asylum-seekers into the country Saturday. As aid workers worked to give all a firm roof over...

DATE: Sep 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

FBI: Middle Eastern men intimidating military families

Reports coming out of Greeley, Cheyenne

DATE: Aug 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Vet reflects on WWII, devastation

Cortez man served in Army in both Hiroshima, Pacific

DATE: Aug 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Remembering those who didn’t come home

‘Don’t take for granted the people who left to defend our country’

DATE: May 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Even before the Navy SEALs: La Plata County native went underwater during World War II

It takes 89-year-old Cecil Benton a while to struggle into his old pullover Navy uniform, but eventually, he appears from the bedroom. “It’s tight,” he says as he pats his midsect...

DATE: May 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: John Peel

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