A picture released by the US military shows US army soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team fighting insurgents in Baqubah 14 March 2007.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — The Army’s first Stryker brigade is in training for a return to Iraq next summer. By the time brigade members head out in June, they’ll have been home about 20 months — long enough ...

Two soldiers based at Fort Lewis were killed in Iraq this week, becoming the 50th and 51st members of the U.S. military with links to Washington state to die in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.

The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered the deployment of approximately 3,000 active-duty troops to the U.S-Mexico Border, ...

BAGHDAD, Nov. 2, 2006 — -- Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade's 2nd Platoon live in a confined world. There are no windows in their armored vehicles, and barricades ring the Baghdad ...

TACOMA -- The U.S. military doesn't plan on sending its second Stryker brigade at Fort Lewis to Iraq until it brings the first one back, the Central Command operations director said. The first Stryker ...

FORT LEWIS - Grace Collazo huddled in the rain under a large red and white umbrella, scanning an airfield where thousands of soldiers with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division stood for a deployment ...

Although they’ve spent just two months in Iraq so far, four friends from the Carlisle area have seen enough to last a lifetime. Spc. Brian Albright, Sgt. James Graver, Sgt. Jerry Kiner and Spc. Joshua ...

The U.S. military is tinkering with high-energy lasers in Iraq as part of a broader effort to refine directed-energy weapons and more effectively counter drones, according to the leader of Central ...

The 3rd Stryker Brigade has suffered more casualties in Iraq. The Department of Defense says that Sgt. Israel P. Obryan, 24, of Newbern, Tenn., and Spc.William C. Yauch, 23, of Batesville, Ark. died ...

TACOMA -- A Stryker brigade at Fort Lewis will be among five combat brigades that will go to Iraq early next year, the Department of Defense said. The Army 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division was ...

The scenes almost seem lifted from a different war: On a scorching afternoon in Ur, a neighborhood in northeast Baghdad, members of the Army’s 172nd Stryker Brigade are on a charm offensive. The ...