THEY ALSO SERVE . . . President George W. Bush revealed at a press conference this week that he put away his golf clubs six months into the Iraq war because he didn't want to be called out by grieving families for having fun or engaging in frivolous activities. Here's the Q and A: Q: Mr....
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Afghan police officers are seen around the damaged police vehicle after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Chaparhar district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Al-Qaida's foreign...
With 2005's underappreciated Live From Iraq, 4th25 (pronounced "fourth quarter") gave the world some of the best rap music in history. Recording in his barracks in Baghdad, Big Neal and some fellow soldiers got everything...
"Liberal Iraqi MP Mithal Alusi’s family home in West Baghdad's Hai Al-Jam’ia neighborhood was reduced to rubble this morning after terrorists had rigged the structure with explosives in an apparent assassination attempt. Alusi,...
The Star’s Washington correspondent WASHINGTON | The room was full of military families as Muppets sang new “Sesame Street” songs aimed at preschoolers with parents in faraway Iraq and Afghanistan. But organizers and parents...