Fort Gillem News

The broad effects of the housing mortgage crisis will prevent nine out of 10 homeowners affected by base closure and realignment actions from receiving financial help under the Homeowners Assistance Program, ...

Soldiers stand next to bags filled with seized ANFO, explosive material made from a mix of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, on display for to the press, at a military base in Facatativa, Colombia, Saturday, July ...

Jul 4, 2008 2:21 PM By FRANK BAJAK, AP Gerardo Aguilar, right, a rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, who was arrested by army officers during the rescue of Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. ...

Bob Usry of Smithville announced Thursday that he will be a candidate for the Georgia State Senate District 13 seat being vacated by Tifton's Joseph Carter, who is running for Tift Superior Court Judge.

At least 48 Tamil Tiger rebels and a soldier were killed in a series of gunbattles in Sri Lanka's strife-torn north with the army today claiming to have a captured a major LTTE base after three days of fierce ...

Gunmen in a dangerous part of southern Afghanistan assassinated an Afghan lawmaker, while a roadside bomb militants were planting detonated prematurely, killing 10 Taliban, officials said Saturday.

Saturday, July 5, 2008, 6:32 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. July 05, Colombo: Sri Lankan troops operating under the Army's 59 division yesterday captured a Tamil Tiger base known as Michael Base, Sri ...

In Suriname, witnesses have testified before a military court that the country's former dictator Desi Bouterse was present at the killings of 15 political opponents in Fort Zeelandia in 1982.

Dunwoody wrapped itself in red, white, blue and hoped-for independence on Friday with its largest-ever Fourth of July parade.

The plan was nothing if not audacious: A turncoat persuades rebels to bring together their most prized hostages and march them 90 miles through Colombia's wilderness. A month later, disguised commandos primed with acting lessons land in a helicopter and trick the rebels into handing them over.

The mission was to rescue three U.S. military contractors, former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 11 others held captive in the Colombian jungles.

Its success hinged entirely, its planners said Thursday, on a near-total breakdown in communications between the isolated guerrilla jailers and their commanders _ the net result of years of intense U.S.-Colombian military cooperation that has seriously weakened Latin America's last major rebel army.