

Reuters - Turkish commandos backed by helicopters deployed along the Iraqi border Monday after Kurdish guerrillas killed 11 soldiers at the weekend in one of the deadliest attacks for years in their separatist war.

AFP - US military authorities on Monday locked down a naval base in New Jersey for about an hour after a delivery truck driver was found with a gun at the base’s entrance, officers said.

AP - A Camp Pendleton Marine has relaunched his Facebook page criticizing President Barack Obama’s health care policy after prompting a controversy over free speech that won him the support of the American Civil Liberties Union.

AP - A Camp Pendleton Marine has relaunched his Facebook page criticizing President Barack Obama’s health care policy after prompting a controversy over free speech that won him the support of the American Civil Liberties Union.

AP - A Camp Pendleton Marine has relaunched his Facebook page after taking it down briefly when his criticism of President Barack Obama grabbed the attention of his superior and fueled a free speech debate among the military.

AFP - A crew member went missing but three others were rescued on Wednesday as a US Navy radar plane supporting operations in Afghanistan ploughed into the Arabian Sea, the US Fifth Fleet said.

Reuters - Colombian rebels on Tuesday freed a government soldier who was held hostage in the jungle for more than 12 years and symbolized those left behind in the war against Latin America’s oldest insurgency.