Nearly two years after President Barack Obama ordered 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to tamp down the escalating Taliban violence, the last of those surge troops have left the country, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday in Auckland, New Zealand.

Panetta said the "surge did accomplish it objectives of reversing the Taliban momentum on the battlefield and dramatically increase the size and capability of the ...

A new study finds 13 percent of Marines who've been deployed overseas have considered taking their own lives, according to the Marine Corps Times.

The San Diego-based Naval Health Research Center conducted the study.

Cynthia Thomsen, a research psychologist with the Naval Health Research Center, told the Marine Corps Times:

“In our sample, unfortunately, 13 percent of people reported some type of suicidal thoughts or plans."

Thomsen said Marines ...