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The U.S. is expected to build a military base in the West African region of Agades, Niger with total construction and operations costs of $280 million by the end of 2024. 

by Donnie Moreland My grandfather—my mother’s father—participated in the first sit-ins in Greenville, South Carolina. My grandfather is a military veteran. He patrolled the tomb of the unknown soldier, was employed as a manufacturer with the Department of Defense and was a supervisor, in the Pentagon, when Flight 77 made contact with the building at […]

By DJ Ferguson My mother, no stranger to emotional blackmail, had no hesitation in using it on behalf of her god in an attempt to reconvert me. “Don’t you think God (Yahweh) ever mourns?” she asked, hoping to get me to feel sorry for the possessive West Asian shepherd god whom I no longer worship. […]

On Friday, Senior Judge Gray Miller of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas ruled that a male-only military draft is unconstitutional.

According to journalist Antony Loewenstein from TRTWorld, a Turkish international news channel, the founder of notorious private military company Blackwater is looking to monetize a war-torn Afghanistan by extracting and mining the country’s minerals.

At this point, President* Donald Trump is essentially the antithesis of his predecessor. The public collectively wondered how we even got here after police officers were seen marching through the streets of Ferguson, Mo. As a result, many of those departments lost their military gear and armored tanks with a little help from President Obama. […]

  A recent college grad got the shock of her life when her dad surprised her at her graduation. Ruby Robinson, a graduate of the Columbia Engineering School, assumed that her father, U.S. Army Reserve Captain Keith Robinson, would not be able to attend the ceremony due to deployment in Afghanistan. 

As the search for nearly 300 missing Nigerian school girls continues, neighboring Cameroon is helping gather intelligence that may lead to the girls’ rescue. But the addition to the search team, which consists of U.S., United Kingdom, French and Asia military intelligence, isn’t so cut and dry. 

In response to criticism about the American military’s newly revised policies regarding hairstyles, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the branch to review the regulations. Hagel’s orders come on the heels of a complaint filed by 16 women of the Congressional Black Caucus, that alleges the regulations which ban large cornrows, twists and dreadlocks, discriminate against […]

A gunman opened fire on a Fort Hood, Texas, military base on Wednesday, killing 3 and injuring 16 before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 34-year-old Spc. Ivan Lopez was a military truck driver at the base. Officials say he suffered form mental illness. 

St. Louis native LaVena Johnson of was a bubbly, intelligent young woman who had high hopes of making an impact while serving her country. As a member of the military, Johnson served overseas in Iraq, just shortly after the U.S. embarked on the Iraq war. Her tragic dreams were cut short when she was found […]

After receiving thousands of messages pressuring him to reconsider, Stevie Wonder will cancel a performance during a gala that would have benefited Israel’s military. Was this the right decision? Should Stevie Wonder have even agreed to perform in the first place?