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A team from U.S. Africa Command was joining an international effort in the hunt for the kidnapped girls in Nigeria.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved spending $22 million to set up a 25-bed field hospital in Liberia to treat...

The number of U.S. troops in West Africa has risen to more than 2,100 and the first medical facility built by the military to...

Hassan Ali Dhoore had planned an attack that killed three Americans on Christmas Day 2014.

In the humid, lush jungle of Cameroon, 18 Marines shared tactics and skills with more than 80 soldiers part of the Forces...

Starving people on the move in search of food and water would complicate a stepped-up air campaign in Somalia, an official...

Defense Secretary Panetta says he now sees the murder of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya as a "terrorist attack."

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has maintained close contact with his counterpart, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, through the...

The U.S. military was limited in what it could do to help rescue the kidnapped Nigerian girls by restrictions imposed by the...

U.S. Africa Command will lead the largest response yet by the U.S. to combat the deadly virus.