According to US military official, leaks pose security concern for Afghans working with the US. And, the body of the second missing sailor was recovered in Afghanistan.

Leaks pose security concern for Afghans working with U.S.

U.S. military officials are assessing what damage could be done to intelligence contacts in Afghanistan after a number of names of local Afghans working with the U.S. military appeared on documents leaked by the WikiLeaks website, according to a U.S. military official.

Second Sailor’s Body Recovered in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — A second U.S. Navy Sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

For troops with brain trauma, a long journey back

TAMPA — Army Ranger Cory Remsburg was thrown like a rag doll into an Afghanistan canal Oct. 1 by the blast from a 500-pound roadside bomb, the right side of his head caved in by shrapnel.

VA is stepping up its services for female veterans

About 1.8 million women have served in the U.S. military, and with 245,000 female soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s estimated that within a decade, women will make up 16 percent of all veterans.

Karzai: Target Militants Outside Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai pushed his international partners on Thursday to take stronger action against terrorist sanctuaries outside of Afghanistan. In a clear reference to havens in Pakistan, Karzai said: “The international community is here to fight terrorism, but there is danger elsewhere and they are not acting.”

Deployed GI Who Lost Home Gets it Back

The Texas Soldier who lost his home to foreclosure while serving in Iraq has gotten the house back.

4 killed in C-17 crash at Elmendorf AFB

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — Authorities say all four airmen aboard a plane that crashed at an Air Force base in Alaska were killed.

Pentagon focuses on ‘main suspect’ in Afghanistan leak

[Update: July 28, 9:38 a.m. ET] The Pentagon is focusing on jailed Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as the main suspect in the leak of tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official told CNN.

Searching for answers after a soldier’s suicide

PHOENIX — On the first day of 2010, Jeanette Baker sat down at the kitchen table to eat a late breakfast of takeout from Filiberto’s Mexican restaurant. Her family, sleepy and still recovering from New Year’s Eve festivities, recounted the highlights of what she missed after she went to bed.

$33B War Funding Boost Clears Congress

WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday sent President Obama a major war-funding increase of $33 billion to pay for his troop surge in Afghanistan, unmoved by the leaking of classified documents that portray a military effort struggling between 2004 and 2009 against a strengthening insurgency.

Dispatch from Iraq: A ‘herculean’ withdrawal of troops

It’s a transition that America’s highest-ranking military official is calling “Herculean in scope.”

By Sept. 1, all but 50,000 U.S. troops must leave Iraq, combat operations are supposed to stop, and the mission here will officially become a civilian-led effort to build the country’s government and security forces.