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The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center.

Defense Ministry said Saturday that a NATO airstrike in the western province of Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four Afghan soldiers and three policemen.

More than 30 years ago, Hung Ba Le fled Vietnam onboard a trawler crammed with hundreds of refugees.

The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept.

Thirteen people died after a shooting spree Thursday at Fort Hood, a sprawling Army post in Texas.

Spc. Kham Xiong of St. Paul was 23 years old when he was gunned down Thursday at Fort Hood.

An Army soldier sweeps leaves near the American flag flying halfmast at the headquarters building at Fort Hood where U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting rampage on November 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas.

An Army medical official says the man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

A pair of military briefings to members of Congress about the Fort Hood rampage resulted in confusion and conflicting information late Friday on the number of wounded.

A second Wisconsin soldier is recovering after the Fort Hood shooting that left 13 dead and 30 injured.

Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan from a routine resupply mission, the alliance said Friday.

FORT HOOD, Texas a ' Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas.

A military psychiatrist went on the rampage at an army base in the US, shooting dead 12 and injuring dozens more.

A U.S. Army major firing two handguns killed 12 people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage on Thursday at Fort Hood base in Texas, a prime point of deployment for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban urged his fighters to stand fast against a military offensive in tribal South Waziristan, warning them in an intercepted message obtained Thursday that cowards will go to hell.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. Fort Lewis would not comment Thursday on security measures at the post following a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas in which 12 people were killed including the gunman, an Army major.

His name had barely been released, his heritage and history not immediately known, but the reaction was fast and furious.

U.S. President Barack Obama makes remarks about a shooting at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Department of the Interior in Washington, November 5, 2009.

At least 12 people were killed and 31 wounded in two shootings Thursday at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.