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• We Build, We Fight : The Role of the Seabees in the Invasion of Normandy
• Car bombs kill 14 in Iraq, officials say
• US-ARTS Summary
• Hezbollah's Syria victory risks wider Sunni-Shi'ite conflict
• Analysis: Hezbollah's Syria victory risks wider Sunni-Shi'ite conflict
• D-Day and the words of war
• 3 days in, WikiLeaks trial comes into focus
• Officials: Car bombings kill 7 people in Baghdad
• Soldier pleads guilty to murdering 16 Afghan civilians
• Lawmakers act to limit military authority in sex assault cases
• Judge accepts U.S. soldier's guilty plea to murdering 16 Afghan civilians

We Build, We Fight : The Role of the Seabees in the Invasion of Normandy Posted: 06 Jun 2013 03:03 PM PDT We Build, We Fight : The Role of the Seabees in the Invasion of Normandy

Car bombs kill 14 in Iraq, officials say Posted: 06 Jun 2013 01:45 PM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of car bomb explosions in and around Baghdad killed 14 people including seven policemen on Thursday, police officials said, adding that dozens were also wounded.

US-ARTS Summary Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:39 AM PDT La Scala's new manager wants an Italian music director VIENNA (Reuters) - Alexander Pereira, the next manager of Italian opera house La Scala, would like to have an Italian music director, ideally Riccardo Muti or Claudio Abbado, he told an Austrian newspaper. Pereira, an Austrian who is now artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, will take over at the helm of Italy's best-known opera theatre in 2015, replacing current general manager Stephan Lissner, who is moving to Paris. Painting seized by Nazis fetches more than $3. ...

Hezbollah's Syria victory risks wider Sunni-Shi'ite conflict Posted: 06 Jun 2013 07:36 AM PDT By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - The capture of Qusair by Syrian troops spearheaded by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite Islamist militia, risks turning the war in Syria into a wider sectarian battle between Sunni and Shi'ite forces that will sweep through the country's neighbours. The fall of the town after weeks of fighting has emboldened the Syrian government and left the rebels contemplating their biggest defeat in a two-year-old war that has killed 80,000. In Damascus, the victory lifted the morale of a government under siege. ...

Analysis: Hezbollah's Syria victory risks wider Sunni-Shi'ite conflict Posted: 06 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) - The capture of Qusair by Syrian troops spearheaded by Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shi'ite Islamist militia, risks turning the war in Syria into a wider sectarian battle between Sunni and Shi'ite forces that will sweep through the country's neighbors. The fall of the town after weeks of fighting has emboldened the Syrian government and left the rebels contemplating their biggest defeat in a two-year-old war that has killed 80,000. In Damascus, the victory lifted the morale of a government under siege. ...

D-Day and the words of war Posted: 06 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT In this commentary from June 2012, Dr. Edward J. Lordan from West Chester University looks at how three presidents used language to convey the need to fight overseas.

3 days in, WikiLeaks trial comes into focus Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:49 AM PDT Three days into Pfc. Bradley Manning's court-martial for giving thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, prosecutors have shown the soldier was trained to guard classified information and knew it ...

Officials: Car bombings kill 7 people in Baghdad Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:47 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say two car bomb explosions in Baghdad have killed at least six people and wounded more than two dozen.

Soldier pleads guilty to murdering 16 Afghan civilians Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:39 AM PDT By Eric M. Johnson TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. Army sergeant who killed 16 Afghan civilians in cold blood last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday to premeditated murder and other charges under a deal with military prosecutors that spares him from the death penalty. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, admitted to leaving his Army post in the Afghan province of Kandahar last March to gun down and set fire to unarmed villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds. ...

Lawmakers act to limit military authority in sex assault cases Posted: 05 Jun 2013 06:23 PM PDT By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers, reacting to a spate of sexual violence seen as a "cancer" in the armed forces, backed a measure on Wednesday that would strip military commanders of their ability to overturn convictions for rape and other sexual assaults. The House of Representatives Armed Services Committee voted to include the plan in the National Defense Authorization Act, a $638 billion bill that sets defense policy and authorizes spending levels for the Pentagon. ...

Judge accepts U.S. soldier's guilty plea to murdering 16 Afghan civilians Posted: 05 Jun 2013 02:54 PM PDT TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. military judge on Wednesday accepted the guilty plea of Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales to the premeditated murder of 16 Afghan civilians last year, approving a deal with prosecutors that spares the soldier from the death penalty. Bales, 39, a decorated veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, now faces a maximum penalty of life in prison without the possibility of parole. A military jury will decide his sentence after further proceedings set to begin August 19. (Reporting by Eric M. ...

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