A 30-year-old U.S. Army veteran who survived three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan was gunned down in Lancaster Saturday. Nathen Taylor was sitting alone in his car outside his brother's home in the 700 block of West Avenue H-7 around 12:10am when "several men walked up to the car and one of the suspects fired several rounds into the vehicle," said Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau in a statement. more ›

U.S. officials are upset that the LA Times published the photographs, possibly putting forces in harm's way, but Afghan President Karzai has a solution: Get out fast. more ›

The photos of U.S. soldiers posing with the corpses of Afghan bombers have shocked the globe today, and the White House is none too happy that the graphic images were published. Given to the LA Times by a soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division, the pictures show soldiers, reportedly from the 82nd Airborne Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team, striking mocking poses with the deceased. more ›

Eight years after photographs of U.S. soldiers torturing prisoners at Abu Gharib shocked the country and world, there's now a set of photographs showing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing with body parts of bombers. The photo were given to the LA Times, which reports that the soliders were initially supposed to get iris scans and fingerprints to ID "the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber." more ›

As part of an immigration scam, a 51-year-old man from El Monte set up a phony army recruitment office and charged Chinese nationals to become part of what he claimed was the U.S. Armed Forces, reports the Pasadena Star News. Recruits were asked to come to David Deng's office, decorated to look like a military recruitment office, in Temple City for training, according to CNN. more ›

"He definately knew how to make everyone laugh," wrote a friend of Staff Sgt. Du Hai Tran on an LA Times comment board. Tran, 30, of Reseda was killed Friday by a roadside bomb in Baqubah, Iraq. He is the 501st soldier from California (24th from Los Angeles) to be lost due to the war. more ›

Boy, it's certainly heartening to see that we're still making good "progress" on the whole "winning hearts and minds" objective: Here at this searing, dusty U.S. military base about four miles west of Baqouba, Iraqis — including interpreters who walk the same foot patrols and sleep in the same tents as U.S. troops — must use segregated bathrooms. Another sign, in a dining hall, warns Iraqis and "third-country nationals" that they have just one... more ›