The U.S. and the Taliban have begun preliminary talks on a possible prisoner exchange.

The over-the-hill gang of U2 spy planes and B52 bombers in the Air Force fleet are going to be around a lot longer under the current budget proposals.

Dustin Napier’s dream career in the Army was just beginning. He in was in Afghanistan on his first combat mission when he was killed while playing volleyball by one of the Afghan soldiers he had come to help.

North Korea has often taunted the U.S. with offers to return MIAs, but searches in March appeared to be a go.

The Pentagon’s budget proposal includes one request that seems to straight out of a science fiction movie.

The Fisher House Foundation is opening a new facility in England for the families of wounded British troops to stay during their recovery.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlined his budget forecast for a smaller, more cost-conscious and land-war averse military — and the hand of former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was all over the fine print.

“They’re not consumed with personal ambition. They don’t obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together,” President Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address.

U.S. Navy SEALs pulled off another successful mission, this time in Somalia where they rescued an American aid worker and her Danish colleague.

It’s called Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, a once-controversial method for treating post-traumatic stress. Now it’s become an effective way to help vets deal with the aftermath of war.