Two Army brigades leaving Iraq in the next six months due to drawdown won’t be replaced.

Never one to stay out of a sticky situation, the U.S. Army has joined the parade of those in the peanut butter recall, removing some peanut butter items from warehouses in Europe.

Iraqi and U.S. officials have signed a pact to end the U.S. military presence in Iraq. Iraq U.S.A. withdrawal pact was signed today.

The Pentagon says U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have reached a draft agreement establishing the legal framework for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq after the United Nations authorization expires at the end of the year. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon.

According to media reports, ground troops with the Pakistani army exchanged gunfire with troops from the United States after Pakistani troop fired at two American OH-58 Kiowa helicopters on a patrol mission inside Afghanistan. Also included in the patrol were Afghan border police.

War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though — it is Packbot from iRobot Corporation.

A man was arrested in connection with the murder of Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, 23, an Army dental specialist who was seven months’ pregnant. She was found dead in her room at the Fairfield Inn near Cross Creek Mall on June 21 2008.

The Army is deploying a multitude of prevention programs as part of efforts to stop soldiers from taking their own lives, senior Army officials said here today.

The US military announced on Thursday that the withdrawal of another 4,000 troops from Iraq next month as violence across the country hit a four-year low.

The Defense Department is taking steps to ensure that remains of fallen servicemembers are always treated with the utmost respect, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters today.

The US army will pull out five brigades by the end of July following improvement of the security conditions and declining attacks against coalition and Iraqi forces.