Troop deployments
A French crew member is seen of a window on France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at Limassol port, Cyprus, Monday, May 10, 2021. With the Task Force's deployment on its mission named "Clemenceau 21," France is assisting in the fight against terrorism while projecting its military power in regions where it has vital interests. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
French admiral: Air power helps root out 'underground' IS

By Menelaos Hadjicostis May. 10, 2021 12:58 PM EDT

A man holds a poster reads "Freedom for Navalny" during a protest in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Police across Russia have arrested more than 180 people in connection with demonstrations in support of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to a human rights group. Navalny's team called the unsanctioned demonstrations for Wednesday after reports that his health is deteriorating while on hunger strike, which he began March 31. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Putin vows a 'quick and tough' Russian response for its foes

By Vladimir Isachenkov Apr. 21, 2021 05:35 AM EDT

Members of the National Guard leave the Capitol perimeter the they had been guarding, Friday, April 2, 2021, after a car crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Repeated Guard missions in DC trigger frustration, denials

By Lolita C. Baldor Apr. 19, 2021 08:15 PM EDT

Fort Campbell soldiers head to Florida in vaccination effort

Feb. 26, 2021 04:13 AM EST
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Some soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are heading to Florida to help with the vaccination effort there. ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks to Department of Defense personnel alongside President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Pentagon approves 20 more COVID-19 vaccination teams

By Lolita C. Baldor Feb. 12, 2021 04:22 PM EST

Resident Eleanor Garrison, left, talks with director of nursing Cheri Place-Chafin in her room Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, at Arbor Springs Health and Rehabilitation Center in Opelika, Ala. Coronavirus cases have dropped at U.S. nursing homes and other long-term care centers over the past few weeks, offering a glimmer of hope that studies and health officials link to various factors, including the start of vaccinations, the easing of a post-holiday virus surge and better prevention. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett)
Things to Know: Pentagon lends military aid to vaccine push

By The Associated Press Feb. 05, 2021 01:50 PM EST

National Guard members work the line of people at Triton College in River Grove, Ill., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, on opening day for mass vaccinations sponsored by the Cook County Department of Public Health. (Mark Welsh/Daily Herald via AP)
Pentagon deploys troops to fuel COVID-19 vaccine drive

By Lolita C. Baldor And Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Feb. 05, 2021 11:35 AM EST

Pentagon approves deployment of 1,000 active duty troops to help deliver COVID-19 shots, first to California next week

Feb. 05, 2021 11:12 AM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon approves deployment of 1,000 active duty troops to help deliver COVID-19 shots, first to California next week. ...

In this grab taken from video on Monday, Jan, 25, 2021, rioters throw stones at police, in Haarlem, Netherlands. Groups of youths have confronted police in several Dutch cities defying the country’s coronavirus curfew and throwing fireworks. Police in the port city of Rotterdam used a water cannon and tear gas in an attempt to disperse a crowd of rioters Monday night. (Mizzle Media via AP)
Dutch police deployed in force to curb rioting, looting

By Mike Corder Jan. 26, 2021 08:56 AM EST

This Dec. 13, 2019 photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Sgt. 1st Class Duke Webb who is currently serving as a Special Forces Assistance Operations and Intelligence Sergeant. Webb, arrested in an apparently random shooting at an Illinois bowling alley that left three people dead and three others injured had four deployments to Afghanistan, the most recent ending in July. Webb was scheduled to appear in court Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, on three counts of murder and three counts of first-degree attempted murder in the shooting at Don Carter Lanes, in Rockford, Ill., on Saturday evening. (Photo courtesy U.S. Army via AP)
Lawyer: Soldier charged in Rockford shooting may have PTSD

By Michael Tarm And Sophia Tareen Dec. 28, 2020 03:13 PM EST

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. The specter of election chaos in the United States is raising questions about whether voting, vote-counting or the post-vote reaction could become so chaotic that the military would intervene. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
Army: No requests made for use of troops around election

By Lolita C. Baldor Oct. 13, 2020 04:19 PM EDT

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press upon arrival at Nouakchott Oumtounsy International Airport Tuesday June 30, 2020, in Nouakchott, to attend a G5 Sahel summit. Leaders from the five countries of West Africa's Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Tuesday to discuss military operations against Islamic extremists in the region, as jihadist attacks mount. The five African countries, known as the G5, have formed a joint military force that is working with France, which has thousands of troops to battle the extremists in the Sahel, the region south of the Sahara Desert. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)
French, Spanish and African leaders meet to combat extremism

By Carley Petesch And Sylvie Corbet Jun. 30, 2020 09:32 AM EDT

A paratrooper assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina's 82nd Airborne Division participates in rollover training on Thursday, May 14, 2020. The exercise is meant to simulate what can happen if a vehicle hits an improvised explosive device. Over the next month, the division will send over two thousand soldiers to the Middle East for a nine-month deployment. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan)
As soldiers deploy amid pandemic, they fight 2 battles

By Sarah Blake Morgan Jun. 17, 2020 01:08 AM EDT

South Korean army's K-55 self-propelled howitzers are loaded on vehicles in Paju, near the border with North Korea, South Korea, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. North Korea said Wednesday it will redeploy troops to now-shuttered inter-Korean tourism and economic sites near the border with South Korea and take other steps to nullify landmark 2018 tension-reduction deals. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
North Korea says it's sending soldiers to joint border sites

By Hyung-Jin Kim And Kim Tong-Hyung Jun. 16, 2020 08:50 PM EDT

Arizona National Guard troops disembark from military vehicles near the Arizona Capitol on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Phoenix, where there have been several days of protests over the death of George Floyd, who died May 25 after being restrained by Minneapolis police. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
900 Arizona National Guard troops on duty amid unrest

By Bob Christie Jun. 02, 2020 06:17 PM EDT

President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he visits outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Park of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Embracing religious themes, Trump visits John Paul II shrine

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin And Darlene Superville, Jun. 02, 2020 12:36 AM EDT

Vehicles for the District of Columbia National Guard are seen outside the D.C. Armory, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Protests have erupted across the United States to protest the death of Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Barr: Law enforcement must ‘dominate’ streets amid protests

By Michael Balsamo Jun. 01, 2020 04:26 PM EDT

Police stand guard as protesters rally at the Trump Tower, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Las Vegas, over the death of George Floyd. Floyd, a black man, died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Trump threatens military force against protesters nationwide

By Darlene Superville, Tim Sullivan And Aaron Morrison Jun. 01, 2020 04:31 AM EDT

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2020, photo, Chinese police stand guard in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing. This year's version of China's biggest political meeting of the year will be unlike any other. Delayed from March because of the then-spiraling coronavirus outbreak, the decision to go ahead with the gathering signals a partial return to normalcy in the country where the pandemic first broke out. "Partial" being the operative word: The congress will be far from normal. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
White House report blasts Chinese 'malign activities'

By Deb Riechmann May. 20, 2020 05:24 PM EDT

In this April 4, 2019 photo, provided by the U.S. Army, a mobile surveillance camera system is stationed near the Fort Hancock Border Patrol Station at Fort Hancock, Texas. The Trump administration has been quietly adding military surveillance cameras at the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic despite the fact fewer people appear to be crossing illegally. Documents obtained by The Associated Press show the Department of Defense at the request of the Department of Homeland Security sent 60 mobile surveillance cameras in addition to 540 more troops to the southwest border this month. (Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf/U.S. Army via AP)
US adds cameras at Mexico border despite drop in crossings

By James Laporta And Julie Watson Apr. 22, 2020 05:06 PM EDT