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Suicides drop at Lewis-McChord

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Mother of fallen soldier helps other soldiers

By ALYSSA HARVEY - Associated Press

Army IDs soldier killed in Ga. helicopter accident

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2014 file photo, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gestures as she answers questions during an interview with the foreign media at the office of Permanent Secretary for Defense on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. From inside her “war room” in a temporary office at the Defense Ministry, Yingluck is watching television feeds of flag-waving protesters trying to bring down her government. The demonstrators have taken over key pockets of downtown Bangkok, blocking off their territory with sandbag walls guarded by supporters. They refuse to negotiate, and they’re trampling campaign billboards bearing her image amid increasing doubt that the election she called next month can be held. Yingluck can’t order a police crackdown for fear of triggering a military coup. And she is now facing a serious legal threat: the country’s anti-corruption commission announced this week it will probe her handling of a controversial rice policy, an investigation that could force her from office if it is successful. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)

Thai prime minister struggles to stay in power

By TODD PITMAN - Associated Press

Retired Army officer named to NM magistrate court

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In this Friday, Jan. 9. 2014 photo, Jeon Jang-Beom, left, and Yoon Hyun-Jin show their family photo taken with their son Jeon Seong-Jin, second from left in the picture, during an interview in Seoul, South Korea. Jeon Seong-Jin, a 26-year-old dentist, is being punished for a crime that is not a crime at all in most of the world. A Jehovah’s Witness, he has refused to become a soldier in South Korea, where all able-bodied male citizens are required to serve about 21 months in the army. More than 660 conscientious objectors were jailed each year in South Korea from 2004 to 2012, far more than any other country. Eritrea comes in second with only about 50 imprisoned, according to the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who often refuse military service because they believe the Bible forbids warfare. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

SKorea jails hundreds for refusing military stints

By EUN-YOUNG JEONG - Associated Press

1 killed in Army helicopter ‘hard landing’ in Ga.

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, injured Israeli settlers are detained by Palestinian villagers in a building under construction near the West Bank village of Qusra, southeast of Nablus. The annual rate of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians has almost quadrupled in eight years, U.N. figures show, buttressing claims that Israeli security forces have largely failed to stem the so-called &quot;price tag&quot; campaign in which thugs cut down trees, deface mosques and beat Palestinian farmers. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh, File)

UN says pace of Israeli settler attacks up 4-fold

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2013 photo, a woman who claims she was raped by Myanmar security forces stands in her home in Ba Gong Nar village, Maungdaw, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Myanmar's transition to democracy following five decades of brutal military rule has won widespread international praise, but rights’ groups say little has changed in resource-rich border areas, where the army continues to grapple with stubborn ethnic insurgencies. As in the past, the use of sexual violence against civilians is widespread and systematic, said Tin Tin Nyo, general secretary of the Women's League of Burma. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Group says Myanmar army uses rape as weapon of war

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

A speaker rallies anti-government protestors with a banner reading: &quot;Shutdown Bangkok&quot; outside the MBK Center shopping mall in the Pathumwan district, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, in Bangkok, Thailand. Anti-government protesters took over key intersections in Thailand's capital Monday, halting much of the traffic into Bangkok's central business district as part of a months-long campaign to thwart elections and overthrow the democratically elected prime minister. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Thai protesters block roads in bid to shut capital

By Thanyrat Doksone and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

American basketball players arrested at Benghazi University

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A U.S. Army cultural support team member with the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force scans the terrain while sitting in a Humvee in Sarobi district, Kabul province, Afghanistan, Dec. 6, 2013. Team members traveled to multiple villages in order to speak with women and children about issues within their community and to address their medical needs. (DoD photo by Spc. Sara Wakai, U.S. Army/Released)

Pentagon pivots to social issues; providing for common defense a lower priority

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ALLARD: A tale for Michelle’s Christmas collection

By Ken Allard

Image: Facebook, Rachel Washburn

Cheerleader-to-soldier: Philly Eagles girl turns in pom-poms for rifle

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times