Reuters - U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, praised for curbing violence in Iraq, seeks to persuade senators on Thursday he can handle the task of heading the U.S. military in the entire Middle East and beyond.

AP - An assembly line worker charged with vandalizing a military helicopter at a Boeing plant was upset about a job transfer and cut a bundle of about 70 electrical wires during his last shift on the Chinook line, federal investigators said Tuesday.

AP - As of Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at least 432 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 17 at 10 a.m. EDT.

AFP - US financial services giant Citigroup and Spain's Abertis Infraestructuras have won a bidding war to run a major US toll road, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, with a bid of 12.8 billion dollars, officials said Monday.

AFP - The Pentagon notified Congress on Monday of the possible sale of 48 F-16 fighters to Romania as part of a deal valued at 4.5 billion dollars.

AFP - An influential architect of the war in Iraq defended the case for US military action on Monday, saying the failure to find weapons of mass destruction did not mean the decision to invade was a mistake.

AP - The Pentagon on Monday announced upcoming deployments of more than 42,000 troops, including 25,000 active duty Army soldiers who would be sent to Iraq beginning in the fall to replace troops scheduled to come home by year's end.

AP - Japan should boost defense spending instead of decreasing it as Tokyo's Asian neighbors expand their military budgets, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan said Tuesday.

AFP - The United States plans to build a vast, new detention camp at its main military base in Afghanistan, a Defense Department spokesman said on Saturday.

AFP - Matthis Chiroux is the kind of young American US military recruiters love.

AP - As of Friday, May 16, 2008, at least 431 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures May 10 at 10 a.m. EDT.