International military intervention

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Durango Palestine Solidarity Coalition members hopeful of ceasefire, skeptical it will last

Announced truce ‘giving people a lot of hope, which is a good thing’

January 22, 2025

Local News

Bayfield native named Navy’s top sailor in 2023

Officer First Class Austin Smith wins award for work on submarine naval base

May 16, 2024

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Veterans remember the fallen during Memorial Day ceremonies

service members reflect on younger generations and what it means to serve your community

May 29, 2023

Local News

La Plata County comes together for veterans as Afghanistan falls into chaos

‘They don’t have to go through this alone,’ says county manager and Afghan vet

August 21, 2021

Local News

Four Corners veterans react to Afghanistan withdrawal

Uncertainty a pervading feeling among vets as U.S. pulls out of longest war

May 22, 2021

Local News

Gunnery Sgt. Scott Koppenhafer honored in Cortez as ‘Marine’s Marine’

Hundreds of residents, fellow Marines pay respects to Sgt. Scott Koppenhafer

August 26, 2019

Local News

Marine from Mancos, Colorado, dies after combat in Iraq

Koppenhaferdu1-i-syn He died after being injured during combat Saturday in Iraq, according to Maj. Kristin Tortorici, a communications officer with…

August 11, 2019

Regional News

Colo. delegation responds to strikes

in Syria was in response to recent chemical weapons attack

April 14, 2018

Nation & World

75 years after Midway, U.S. Navy hero honored

The dive bombers McClusky led that day in the Battle of Midway helped to gut the Imperial Japanese Navy and…

June 3, 2017

Nation & World

U.S. struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn’t support IS

People read newspapers in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday. For nearly two years, U.S. airstrikes, military advisers and weapons shipments have…

May 8, 2016

Nation & World

Protests disband after IS group carries out 2nd Iraq bombing

Anti-government protestors chant slogans calling for governmental reforms as they wave national flags before ending their sit-in inside Baghdad’s Green…

May 1, 2016

Nation & World

U.S. once again forced to turn to Russia for help on Syria

Protesters hold up placards during a protest in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday against…

May 1, 2016

Nation & World

Obama says new U.S. troops in Syria will be essential

The deployment will bring the number of personnel to roughly 300, up from about 50 special operations forces currently in…

April 25, 2016

Local News

Western Slope native tells of heroism during Benghazi attack

agent tells Fort Lewis audience politics blur sacrifices made that night

April 12, 2016

Nation & World

With UN envoy in Damascus, IS takes Syrian town from rebels

Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military’s General Staff speaks at a briefing in Moscow, Russia, on Monday. The…

April 11, 2016

Nation & World

Syrian cease-fire strained by new clashes ahead of talks

Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization forces fire toward positions in the Islamic State group-held town of Besher, Iraq.…

April 10, 2016

Nation & World

A look at how the Syrian conflict has changed the world

Rise of islamic state It was in the vacuum of the deteriorating Syrian conflict that a little-known and terrifically violent…

March 12, 2016

Nation & World

In drills, U.S., South Korea practice striking North’s nuclear plants

South Korean army soldiers stand on their K-55 self-propelled howitzers during an annual exercise in Paju, near the border with…

March 7, 2016

Nation & World

Serbia: 2 hostages killed in US airstrikes in Libya

This picture, released online by the Sabratha Municipal Council on Friday, shows the site where U.S. warplanes struck an Islamic…

February 20, 2016

Nation & World

Obama forced again to rethink troop numbers in Afghanistan

Afghan security forces patrol in Nad Ali district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 22, 2015. Conditions in Afghanistan are…

January 30, 2016

Nation & World

Abduction of Americans in Iraq raises fears about security

Witnesses said men in uniform carried out the kidnapping in broad daylight Saturday, 100 yards (meters) from a police station.…

January 17, 2016

Nation & World

In shattered Ramadi, a test of Iraqi unity

‘totally destroyed’ from years of war

January 16, 2016

Local News

French transplants in La Plata County horrified by terrorism

those from Middle East won’t face baseless prejudice

November 14, 2015

Nation & World

Pentagon giving up on building new Syrian rebel force

Military to focus on aiding groups already fighting

October 9, 2015