Two US Marines were killed and several more troops wounded in an attack on the Camp Bastion military compound in Afghanistan.

A US military investigation has determined that US troops burned up to 100 Qurans and other religious materials in Afghanistan during a February incident that led to deadly riots and strained relations between the two countries.

About 20 women were brought back to a hotel in Colombia by US Secret Service and military personnel in an incident last week involving alleged misconduct with prostitutes, US Senator Susan Collins said yesterday.

The sex scandal involving US Secret Service agents and prostitutes in a hotel in Colombia involved at least 20 foreign women, congressional officials say.

A US Marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi women and children has pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty in a deal that ends the largest and longest-running criminal case against US troops to emerge from the war.

THE second time around, the shock has worn off.

The US Marine Corps said it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

Marines fired rifles at a South Korean civilian plane as it was descending to land after mistaking it for a North Korean military aircraft, an airline official said today.

A PRISONER killed two US Marines in southern Afghanistan after escaping a prayer room and grabbing a rifle, Nato said yesterday.

Hundreds of US Marines landed on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima today to prepare for the 65th anniversary of one of the Second World War’s bloodiest battles.

The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah today as Nato troops worked to root out final pockets of militants.

Taliban fighters are increasingly using civilians as human shields in the assault on the southern town of Marjah, an Afghan official said today as military squads resumed painstaking house-to-house searches in the Taliban stronghold.

Thousands of US Marines were expected off the shore of Port-au-Prince today to help relief organisations get supplies to Haitian earthquake survivors.

US Marines and Afghan troops today launched the first offensive since the troop surge was announced, hitting Taliban communications and supply lines in Helmand province.

Nine victims of a mid-air collision between a coastguard aircraft and a US Marine Corps helicopter were feared dead today as the investigation focused on how the crews failed to see each other in a heavily-used military training area.

US troops attacked a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan today as part of operations to secure the country ahead of presidential elections.

A former US soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teenager and murdering her family was spared the death penalty after jurors couldn’t agree on a punishment for the brutal crime.

Last-minute Christmas shoppers shivered and travellers were left stranded as winter storms lashed the US from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon.

Roadside bombs killed eight American soldiers in separate attacks today in Diyala province and Baghdad, and a car bomb claimed 30 more lives in a wholesale food market in a part of the Iraqi capital where sectarian tensions are on the rise.

Military prosecutors have granted immunity to at least seven US Marines who may be called to testify at the trial of fellow troops accused over the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha.

An alleged ’confession’ by one of 15 British sailors and Marines held captive in Iran is to be broadcast on an Arabic-language TV channel today.

A US Marine Corps squad leader has been charged with murdering 12 people and ordering other Marines under his command to kill six people during an incident that left 24 civilians dead in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year.

A US Marine Corps squad leader was charged today with murdering 12 people and ordering other Marines under his command to kill six people during an incident that left 24 civilians dead in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year.

A US Marine Corps squad leader was charged today with 13 murder counts stemming from the killings of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year, his attorney said.

As many as eight US Marines could be charged in the biggest US criminal case to emerge from the war in Iraq in terms of Iraqis killed.

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

A US Marine charged with kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man last spring assaulted another man in a separate incident because he made ”disparaging remarks” about Marines while in Abu Ghraib prison, a court has heard.

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

FORMER Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is being made to watch his appearance in cult cartoon South Park while he is behind bars, it emerged yesterday.

Gunmen attacked two Sunni mosques today in Baghdad, fanning Iraq’s sectarian crisis, as US military officials confirmed three more US Marines died in action in separate attacks in western Iraq.

Iraqi police stormed a farm north of Baghdad early today and freed at least 17 people who were snatched a day earlier in a mass kidnapping of 64 workers and family members at the end of a factory shift.

The US military today announced that four Marines had been killed – three of them in a roadside bombing in Iraq – during operations in insurgent-ridden Anbar province.

The US Marine Corps today planned to charge seven Marines and one sailor with murder in connection with the April death of an Iraqi civilian, a defence official said.

US President George Bush said today he was troubled by allegations that US Marines had killed unarmed Iraqi civilians and that “if in fact laws were broken, there will be punishment”.

The deaths of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians and an ensuing cover-up threaten to do more harm to US efforts in Iraq than even the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a prominent congressman and war critic says.

Four US Marines died in Iraq when their tank rolled off a bridge into a canal and they drowned, the military said today.

High-tech equipment has detected sounds at the site of a Philippine school buried by a landslide, US and Malaysian officials said today.

Four US Marines died in a pair of roadside bombings in western Iraq’s volatile Anbar province, the military said today. Another explosion killed two Iraqi civilians south of Baghdad.

A car bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad targeting an Iraqi police patrol today, wounding at least one policeman and another civilian, police said.

A roadside bomb has killed two US soldiers in Baghdad and two Marines died in a vehicle accident in western Iraq, the military said today.

Five US Marines have been killed by small arms fire and roadside bombs, the military said today.

A PHILIPPINE judge said he will insist on local custody of four American Marines charged with raping a Filipino woman, which would test a visiting forces treaty between the two allies.

Four US Marines were charged with rape in the Philippines today.

A roadside bomb killed 10 Marines and wounded 11 others on a foot patrol near Fallujah, the US military said. It was the deadliest attack against American troops in four months.