The US Army's Fort Hood has reported an active shooter to Texas authorities.

The defence contractor who fatally shot 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard was carrying three weapons during the rampage.

A US jury has sentenced Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan to death for killing 13 people during the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The soldier on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood was allowed to continue representing himself after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence.

A Muslim soldier was stopped hours before completing a bomb he planned to detonate at a Texas restaurant full of US troops, federal prosecutors said today.

ANWAR al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, using his fluent English and internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed yesterday in the mountains of Yemen, US and Yemeni officials said.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, has been killed in the mountains of Yemen.

One of the biggest wildfires sweeping Texas is slowing down after burning hundreds of homes, but firefighters have still not got it under control.

Unarmed soldiers caught up in the deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage as they were preparing to leave for Afghanistan went into combat mode, playing dead to avoid direct gunfire and refusing to leave their fallen comrades behind, a court heard.

A soldier shot five times said he locked eyes with Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Hasan after the US Army psychiatrist cried “Allahu Akbar” and fired into a crowd of troops preparing for deployment.

THE US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a report compiled by the former heads of the 9/11 commission.

The US was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report.

A TEXAS man with no military experience tricked the army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, a deception that placed an untrained soldier in a leadership position in a time of war, a probe has found.

The Muslim US major who went on the rampage at Fort Hood army base killing 13 people was a known problem who should have been spotted, a new report says.

A US Army psychiatrist who may face the death penalty after the mass shooting at Fort Hood was charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder relating to the scores of soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the attack, military officials said.

A US Army psychiatrist who may face the death penalty after the mass shooting at Fort Hood was charged with 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder relating to the scores of soldiers and two civilian police officers injured in the attack, military officials said.

A US Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in an attack on his Texas base will probably plead not guilty and may use an insanity defence at his military trial, his lawyer said.

The American Army Major, charged with shooting 13 people dead at an army base, is apparently paralyzed from the chest down.

The US Army will conduct an internal investigation to examine whether it missed warning signs about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 people in the November 5 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, two newspapers reported.

THE army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralysed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney said yesterday.

The lawyer for the Army psychiatrist accused of killing fellow soldiers at Fort Hood says doctors have told the soldier he may be paralysed from the waist down.

Accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan was coherent during his first meeting with his defence lawyer in a hospital intensive care unit.

A US Army major is expected to be charged with 13 counts of murder over a shooting rampage at a base in Texas.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama paid tribute yesterday to the 13 victims of the Fort Hood atrocity who could not escape “the horror of war, even in the comfort of home”.

NEARLY a year before Major Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.

The FBI knew that the US officer who massacred 13 people at the Fort Hood base had repeated contact with a radical imam overseas.

President Barack Obama will lead mourners at a memorial service held today for the 13 victims of America’s worst shooting atrocity to take place at an army base.

THE military psychiatrist accused of shooting 13 people dead during a rampage at a US army base is awake and talking, hospital staff said yesterday.

The suspected shooter said to have killed 13 people and wounded 30 others on a US army base has regained consciousness and is talking, a hospital official has said.

IN retrospect, the signs of Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s growing anger over the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan seem unmistakable.

US Army officials say the man who killed 13 people during a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care.

The military psychiatrist responsible for a shooting spree that left 13 dead remained in a coma today, frustrating attempts to work out what made him kill.

AFTER mistaken reports in the aftermath of the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that the gunmen responsible for the killings was shot dead, it has emerged that suspect Nadil Malik Hasan is alive and being treated at the base hospital.

A GUNMAN opened fire yesterday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others.

A US officer who killed 13 soldiers in a gun rampage at a Texas army base shouted a triumphant Islamic proclamation before opening fire, it was claimed today.

The Texas army camp massacre gunman was being investigated for possible links to an extremist website, it emerged today.

A military psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a gun rampage on a US army base was being held in hospital under armed guard today.

A military psychiatrist went on the rampage at an army base in the US, shooting dead 13 and injuring dozens more.

President Obama has described a mass shooting at an army base in Texas as a horrendous outburst of violence.

A mass shooting at a military base in Texas has left seven people dead and 12 injured, according to reports.

Army Private Lynndie England, the 22-year-old reservist who appeared in photos smirking amid naked prisoners at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison, stood at attention as she was convicted of taking part in abusing detainees.

US soldier Lynndie England yesterday surrendered her right to challenge the seven charges she faces as a result of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, moving her one step closer to a new military trial.

US soldier Lynndie England today surrendered her right to challenge the seven charges she faces as a result of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, moving her one step closer to a new military trial.

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