The groundbreaking move overturns a 1994 rule preventing women from serving in ground combat units. The military has been given until 2016 to recommend any special exceptions to the new regulation.
Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war.
The US military said on Saturday it had carried out a strike on a vessel in...
The US military said it had carried out another strike Friday on a boat accused of...
At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli...
