TUCSON — Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson will soon have a new commander.

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE - Air Force officials say one squadron of F-16 fighter jets at Luke Air Force Base will be retired by early next year as part of a planned base downsizing.

WASHINGTON - Army Secretary Peter Geren is expected to recommend that a retired three-star general be demoted for his role in providing misleading information about the death of Army Ranger and former Arizona Cardinals star Pat Tillman, military officials say, in what would be a stinging and rare rebuke.

The U.S. Marine Corps is having a birthday in November, and some local Marines are gathering in Sun Lakes next month for a ball and fundraiser. The 236th Annual U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Ball will commemorate the Corps’s Nov. 10, 1775, establishment by the Continental Congress.

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE - A master sergeant assigned to Luke Air Force Base was killed in fighting in Afghanistan, the military announced Wednesday.

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - U.S. special operations forces raided a presidential palace Thursday north of Baghdad, finding no trace of Saddam Hussein but seizing important documents, a Central Command spokesman said.

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Insurgents launched a brazen attack Thursday on an Iraqi civil defense outpost visited by Gen. John Abizaid, commander of all U.S. forces in the Middle East. Abizaid and his party escaped injury in the gun battle.

April 26, 2005

MASNAA, Lebanon - Syria's 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended Tuesday when Syrian soldiers flashing victory signs crossed back over the border, completing a withdrawal brought about by international pressure and massive Lebanese street protests.

The mother of former NFL player Pat Tillman suspects the military's account of how fellow Army Ranger comrades shot and killed her son in Afghanistan is still not the true story, four years later, according to her new book.

The Obama administration is divided over a request by the top military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, to send up to 40,000 more U.S. soldiers to the embattled nation.

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - Six satellite jamming devices, which Iraq was using to try to thwart American precision guided weapons, were destroyed and have had "no effect" on U.S. military operations, a U.S. general said Tuesday.

Hospitals, first responders, National Guard forces and others are participating this week in the largest emergency response drill in Arizona's history. More than 250 agencies and 8,000 participants are taking part in "Vigilant Guard," an exercise designed to assess disaster preparedness in Arizona.

ARUSHA, Tanzania - The alleged mastermind of Rwanda's 1994 genocide began his testimony Monday at the U.N. tribunal trying those accused of leading the 100-day slaughter of 500,000 people in the central African nation.

June 22, 2004

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - A coalition A-10 "Warthog" warplane was shot down near Baghdad early Tuesday in what was believed to be the first downing of a coalition aircraft by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile.

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - U.S. Marines have reported that about 2,500 Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered between Kut and Baghdad, U.S. Central Command said Friday.

A stiff salute to the guts and skill of the special operations units that planned and executed the rescue of prisoner of war Jessica Lynch.

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. military officer in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, will be replaced as part of a command restructuring that has been in the works for several months, administration officials said Tuesday. The Pentagon also suspended Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski from her command.

With sandstorms finally over and a new front opened in the north, U.S. commanders said Thursday they would swiftly intensify attacks on Iraqi forces. In the south, a captured Iraqi airfield was renamed “Bush International Airport,’’ while a British armored unit destroyed Iraqi tanks outside the besieged city of Basra.

BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military has reprimanded seven officers in the alleged abuse of inmates at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, the first known punishments in the case, an official said Monday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military has reprimanded seven officers in the alleged abuse of inmates at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, the first known punishments in the case, an official said Monday.