Missing pregnant marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach is dead. Her body has not yet been recovered. A witness phoned detectives and told them she was dead and where her body was buried.

Five Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats harassed and provoked three U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route off the Iranian coast, over the weekend, CNN reported on Monday.

An Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. colleagues last week, killing two American troops. The incident happend when U.S. and Iraqi troops were doing a joint patrol.

The Air Force suspended non-mission critical F-15 flight operations on Nov. 3 following the crash of a Missouri Air National Guard F-15C aircraft Nov. 2.

Verizon Business will help the U.S. Army modernize its communications infrastructure and systems at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., to support increased bandwidth and converged communications while improving vital communications for military operations now and in the future.

An influential U.S. Senate Republican says President Bush should announce an initial withdrawal of troops from Iraq on September 15. Senator John Warner of Virginia made his comments to reporters Thursday, just days after visiting Iraq. VOA's Deborah Tate reports from Capitol Hill.

The U.S. military says an American helicopter has crashed in northern Iraq, killing all 14 soldiers on board.

Failed relationships, including marriages stressed by combat deployments helped push the number of suicides in the U.S. Army last year to its highest since the Gulf War, the Army said.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki shrugged off U.S. doubts of his government's military and political progress on Saturday, saying Iraqi forces are capable and American troops can leave "any time they want."

The U.S. Navy's newest underway replenishment vessel, USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE-4), was christened and launched from the General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego on May 15.

The U.S. commander in northern Iraq says he does not have enough manpower to secure the increasingly violent Diyala province. Major General Benjamin Mixon made the remarks to reporters at the Pentagon by videoconference from Iraq. VOA correspondent Meredith Buel has details from Washington.

The White House is threatening to veto a bill proposed in the House of Representatives that would pay for the Iraq war only through July since the Defence Secretary Robert Gates said such a limit would be disastrous.