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A top Army general said Friday that training Afghanistan's struggling military and police forces is critical if the U.S. wants to succeed after eight years of war and he's confident President Barack Obama will OK sending more troops there to do that.

The Pentagon has released the names of 7 soldiers killed in the crash of a helicopter in Afghanistan, including two based at North Carolina's Fort Bragg.

Jurors could soon be deliberating the case of a soldier who was wounded when a sheriff's deputy shot him in confusion about a military role-playing exercise in North Carolina.

Families and friends will bid farewell to approximately 450 personnel of which 137 are Professional Officer Fillers from 30 installations during a 28th Combat Support Hospital Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct.

Authorities say two former paratroopers and three Russian women face prison for their roles in a marriage scheme at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.Authorities say each side had something to gain.The men got $600 monthly housing allowances and the ability to live off-post. The women were seeking U.S. citizenship.Now, each faces up to five years in ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. a " Military officials have identified the soldier killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed on a Navy ship during training off the Virginia coast.A statement by Fort Bragg on Sunday said 29-year-old Army Staff Sgt.

Fort Bragg is sending four civilian fire fighters to Puerto Rico to help fight an explosion at a petroleum plant near an Army installation there.

Military officials confirmed a paramedic was killed Thursday morning heading to an injury call.

Deteriorating army barracks at Ft. Bragg, N.C. are seen in a 2008 file photo. A North Carolina group studying soldier housing at Fort Bragg says a program to maintain barracks is undermined by inconsistencies and a lack of resources.

As the debate continues on how to handle the situation in Afghanistan, the state of North Carolina braces itself for whatever decision the Obama Administration makes.

A military judge has ruled against a defense request to test additional evidence in the case of an Army soldier charged with killing a woman and two of her daughters in North Carolina in 1985.

After enlisting in the armed forces at age 17, going to war at 18, and becoming a Green Beret at 24, a Manchester soldier was presented in September with the Bronze Star, the Commendation Medal with Valor Device, and the Non Article 5 NATO Medal of Service.

A former soldier said yesterday that he believed that the sheriff's deputy who initiated a fateful traffic stop in 2002 was part of an Army role-playing exercise -- a belief broken only when the officer fired two fatal shots at a Special Forces colleague.

Soldiers from foreign militaries are again eligible to earn the Green Beret at an N.C. training center.

Two Russian brothers accused of arranging marriages between Russian women and Fort Bragg soldiers will stay in jail until trial next year.

A federal judge in North Carolina said representatives of a soldier killed during a 2002 Special Forces training exercise are no longer involved in a lawsuit.

A lawsuit accusing a Moore County deputy of excessive force in a 2002 shooting that killed a soldier during Special Forces training in central North Carolina was scheduled to go to trial this week.

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Military officials have detained the man who they say rented a truck used in the robbery and assault of a woman at an ATM on Sunday in Statesville.

The first day of a five-day bicycle ride to raise money for wounded soldiers will get under way at a North Carolina Army post.

Fort Bragg soldiers and Central Asian immigrants staged courtships and marriages to reap the benefits America gives those who get hitched, according to federal investigators.

Officials at Fort Bragg plan to hold an anti-terrorism exercise that will include a simulated attack on the base Wednesday.

Heavy cranes, including a Link-Belt 120-ton and a Link-Belt 200-ton , have been performing steel erection on the $290-million new Command Headquarters complex currently under construction at Fort Bragg, N.C. Click to enlarge photo.

Officials announced Sunday that a Fort Bragg soldier was killed while in Wardak Province, Afghanistan Friday.

They're the questions of the moment within the ranks: How many more troops are headed to Afghanistan? And who, exactly, will go? Absent details of the request for additional forces that Army Gen.

Fort Bragg Spc. James Van Dorn says it was nothing more than instinct that compelled him to help a woman and toddler struck by lighting during a Friday afternoon storm.

Reporting from Ft. Bragg, N.C. - Before soldiers leave on missions in Iraq or Afghanistan, they often are ordered to do everything in their power to bring their buddies back.

A military judge will hear motions in the case of a North Carolina soldier who was recalled to duty so he could be tried for a 1985 triple slaying.