A U.S. soldier has died in Iraq for the first time since 2011 as the United States continues to increase its involvement in the battle against the Islamic State, which controls large swathes of Iraq and Syria.
The U.S. Army is expelling a Green Beret for actions he took after learning that a young boy in Afghanistan was raped and the police weren't going to do anything about it.
A Tajik special forces police officer who has been missing for several weeks appears to have joined the Islamic State.
Luke Somers, a U.S. journalist who has been held captive by militants in Yemen since Sept. 2013, was killed in a raid as U.S. Special Forces attempted to rescue Somers and other hostages.
