A Colorado company is accused of illegally exporting defense technology used by the U.S. military to South Korea, China, Russia and Turkey, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Rocky Mountain Instrument Co., based in Lafayette, said it is working toward a plea agreement with prosecutors and that ...

The latest hit-and-run accident involving US troops in Japan has sparked anger on an island that has become a flashpoint in a row over the American troop presence in the country. In the second such crash on the southern island of Okinawa in five months, a US military Humvee slammed into a passenger car near a US base late on ...

As of Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at least 4,385 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least ...

The number of reports of sexual assault in the US military rose by 11 percent in 2009, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. The Defense Department attributed the spike in part to efforts to encourage victims to report such assaults. The department recorded 3,230 complaints of sexual assault in fiscal year 2009, which involved members of the military -- either as ...