The soldier who killed three people before committing suicide in an attack on the same Texas military base where more than a dozen people were shot dead in 2009 had shown no recent risks of violence, officials say.

One person was killed and 14 injured in a shooting at the US Army's Fort Hood base in Texas, and officials at the base said the shooter is believed to be dead.

The US Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at a Texas base could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century after a military jury sentenced him to death.

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website was kept in tight pre-trial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, told a court today.

A group of 40 campaigners gathered outside the American embassy in London today to protest against the incarceration of a US Army private accused of leaking information to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks

A US soldier has been officially charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder over a shooting rampage in Afghanistan, military officials said today.

US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder, assault and a string of other offences in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a US official said.

A US Army Staff Sergeant accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a night-time shooting spree remembers little about the incident, his lawyer has said.

A diverging portrait of the US Army sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers is emerging as records and interviews show a man appreciated by friends and family who won military commendations, yet faced professional disappointment, financial trouble and brushes with the law.

A supporter of the US Army private suspected of supplying classified documents to the WikiLeaks website has refused to testify to a federal grand jury.

The US Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being flown to a state-of-the-art prison where Pentagon officials said more extensive mental, emotional and physical health care will be available.

The US army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved from a Marine jail south of Washington to a state-of-the-art facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where Pentagon officials said more extensive metal, emotional and physical healthcare will be available.

The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and move terror suspects from there to military prisons on US soil, it emerged last night..