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Russia said on Wednesday it would deploy a new paratroop regiment on annexed Crimea by the beginning of December and complained about a British deal to boost Ukraine's navy which it said showed ...
These men were the special honorees at the event this year. Members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, they were the first black paratroop unit, which became known as the Triple Nickels.
Beavers was one of 17 soldiers who formed what became the Army’s first all-black paratroop unit, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. The unit, which began training in 1944, was never as ...
Some 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers landed in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq Wednesday, allowing the coalition forces to support “a robust flow of follow-on forces,” according to an American ...
One of Russia’s top paratroop commanders has been killed in Ukraine in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin ’s debilitating war effort. The death of Col Sergei Sukharev, of the 331st Guards ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian military court on Thursday placed Colonel Artyom Gorodilov, commander of the country's 83rd Guards Air Assault Brigade, in pre-trial detention for two months on ...
The witness, known as Inquiry 7, told the tribunal's three judges that earlier on the afternoon of the killings, a single high-velocity shot hit a drain-pipe or guttering close to his position ...
THE BLOODY SUNDAY INQUIRY: Official documents recording the orders given to the Bloody Sunday paratroopers to enter the Bogside do not match the events on the ground, the Saville Inquiry heard ...
One of Russia ’s top paratroop commanders has been killed in Ukraine in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin ’s debilitating war effort.