26-year-old Captain John Scarlett (pictured) was shot in the thigh in Helmand Province last July as he tried to save his comrades from an attack by an Afghan policeman. He was given the Military Cross for gallantry.

If they do, they are excused from military service in Israel. This exemption to the otherwise universal draft for Israeli Jews has been in existence for as long as Israel has been a country — part of an early bargain struck between religious and …

Israel – The IDF intends to implement wide-reaching budget cuts over the coming five years that will save billions of shekels, according to a multi-year plan published on Wednesday. The plan, which would need to be …

The trenches and battlefields of World War I are the setting for a startling and surprising amount of ghostly encounters reported by soldiers on the frontlines, from sighting dead comrades still marching to an angelic host of angels hovering over a battlefield…And if this Chesire, England woman is to be believed, the attic of her […]

More than 1,100 National Guard soldiers and airmen in Hawaii — and thousands in other states — will be living with 20 percent less pay over the next three months as the Defense Department carries out automatic federal budget cuts.

A new bill by Israeli Member of Knesset Elazar Stern seeks to allow Jews and non-Jews to be buried alongside each other in military cemeteries. The bill was brought to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, but …

The border with Syria, as opposed to the Hezbollah-held border with Lebanon, is geographically advantageous to Israel. The IDF controls the high ground along the length of the Golan Heights. On clear days, soldiers stationed in the lookout on Mount …

Here's a new one — the Rapture Right is now claiming the increase on sexual assaults within the US military is due to the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. What's the reasoning, you ask? Seems the troops are suddenly sex-obsessed because they are …

Three Americans have been killed by a man wearing an Afghan uniform, in the latest apparent example of an insider attack. A Nato spokesman said that the man in the Afghan uniform turned his weapon on troops in the eastern province of Paktika.

Suicide Bomber Kills 6 Georgian Soldiers In Afghanistan – 6/6/2013 Reuters