Accused Marine faces tough legal fight
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A Marine who withdrew his guilty plea to kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man will have a difficult time proving he was only following orders, military experts said.
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A Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq last summer and later turned up in his native Lebanon was charged Thursday with desertion.
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A U.S. battalion commander and an enlisted man will face courts-martial on charges related to the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005, the Marines said on Friday.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan A military court-martial is under way for Charles Jenkins, the Army sergeant who&#39;s accused of deserting his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea.
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A U.S. Marine offered a guilty plea to conspiracy charges on Tuesday in connection with the April 2006 killing of a 52-year-old Iraqi grandfather in the village of Hamdania.
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A Marine appeared in a military court Wednesday but did not enter a plea on a manslaughter charge for his alleged involvement in the killing of 24 Iraqi men, women and children.
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A Marine lieutenant has been charged with a military count of premeditated murder for shooting two Iraqis during a search for a terrorist hideout, and he could face the death penalty  if he is found guilty, his attorney said Thursday.
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The highest-ranking U.S. serviceman to face court-martial involving combat since Vietnam was ordered to trial Friday for failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis, including women and children, in Haditha two years ago.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A Navy corpsman testified yesterday that Marines in his patrol seized an Iraqi civilian from his home, threw him into a hole, and put at least 10 bullets in his head and chest after growing frustrated in their search for an insurgent.
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A Marine Corps sergeant under investigation in connection with the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha is accusing Rep. John P. Murtha of defaming him in public comments about the case.
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The lawyer for a right-wing Colombian warlord donned scuba diving gear on Tuesday to confront the nation&#39;s prison authority for imprisoning his client on a ship.
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A U.S. Marine officer accused of destroying evidence in the 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha was arraigned on Wednesday by a military judge who set his court martial for May.
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Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach had a protective order against the fellow Marine accused of killing her, but the order expired in September, military records show.
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Seven Marines and a Navy corpsman were charged Wednesday with premeditated murder in the shooting death of an Iraqi man who was pulled from his home and shot while U.S. troops hunted for insurgents. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
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A Marine captain has been told he will be criminally charged in connection with the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha, his attorney said Monday.
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A jury must determine whether a Marine reservist committed an act of murder or self-defense when he killed an Iraqi soldier at a guard post in Fallujah last year.
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun,  charged a month ago with desertion in a mysterious case in  which he left his unit in Iraq only to turn up in Lebanon, has  failed to return to his base in North Carolina, the Marine  Corps said on Wednesday.