A US politician says about six Marines will be charged in the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraq town of Haditha.

A US Navy medic has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in the killing of an Iraqi civilian.

Five people face criminal charges after a weekend confrontation with members of a Kansas church group that pickets military funerals because it believes US casualties in Iraq are a sign of God’s punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality, authorities said today.

THE United States yesterday refused a Philippine request to hand over four marines charged with rape, provoking anti-American protests in the capital and the Muslim south, where US troops began annual counter-terrorism training of Filipino soldiers.

AN Ohio community is racked with grief after 20 soldiers from the local battalion were killed in just two days.

A bus carrying US Navy personnel to a wreath-laying ceremony lost control on a two-lane highway and crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer, killing three sailors and injuring dozens.

There is a war on, and danger lurks ahead, and the American marines of the 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry are getting desperate – for tobacco.