The body of a fourth U.S. Army soldier was found on Tuesday in Lithuania, a week after the soldier and three others were reported missing when the armored vehicle they were riding in sank in a bog, the U.S. military said. The Army did not immediately release the name of the fourth soldier, whose body…
The war in Ukraine is at an inflection point, with President Trump seeking rapprochement with the Russian leader, Vladimir V. Putin, and pressing for an end to the fighting. But for nearly three years before Mr. Trump’s return to power, the United States and Ukraine were joined in an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning…
Pabrade, Lithuania — Lithuania’s president said Friday that he hoped for “a miracle” as he visited the site of a rescue operation to recover four missing U.S. Army soldiers from their submerged vehicle. The four soldiers, assigned to the Army’s 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, went missing early Tuesday morning during a maintenance mission to recover…
Four U.S. Army soldiers were killed during a training exercise in Lithuania, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday, speaking with reporters in Poland. The U.S. embassy in Vilnius said earlier in a statement posted on social media that the four soldiers had gone missing during training, and it thanked the Baltic nation’s military and police for…
Four U.S. Army soldiers went missing while on a training mission in Lithuania, prompting a search for their vehicle, military officials said on Wednesday. The soldiers, all from 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, had been conducting scheduled tactical training in a training area near Pabrade, a city in eastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus,…
The Army has identified the third crew member of a Black Hawk helicopter who died in the collision with a commercial jet in the skies over Washington last week as Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, 28, of Durham, N.C. On Friday, the Army released the names of two male aviators who were killed in the crash,…
Today in History Today is Thursday, Jan. 23, the 23rd day of 2025. There are 342 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 23, 1368, China’s Ming dynasty, which lasted nearly three centuries, began as Zhu Yuanzhang (zhoo whan-zhahng) was formally acclaimed Hongwu Emperor, following the collapse of the Yuan dynasty. …