Chinese jets intercept US military plane, Pentagon says :0

Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea , the Pentagon said on Wednesday, drawing a rebuke from Beijing, which demanded that Washington end surveillance near China. The incident, likely to increase tension in and around the contested waterway, took place in international airspace on Tuesday as the U.S. maritime patrol aircraft carried out "a routine U.S. patrol," a Pentagon statement said.

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Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a US Navy aircraft that was flying in a "routine patrol" over the South China Sea on Wednesday, a US Defense Department spokesman said in a written statement. China has asserted territorial claims over the South China Sea, which has large oil and natural-gas deposits and has also been claimed by Washington has not recognized China's claims to the waters, and has accused Beijing, which is allegedly building islands there , of "militarizing" the area.

US establishes first permanent military base in Israel

For the first time in history, the United States on Monday established an official, permanent military base in Israel: an air defense base in the heart of the Negev desert. Dozens of US Air Force soldiers will call home the new base, located inside the Israeli Air Force's Mashabim Air Base, west of the towns of Dimona and Yerucham.

Former sailor seeks pardon in submarine photos case

A former Navy petty officer, who is imprisoned for illegally taking pictures on a nuclear attack submarine, is seeking a presidential pardon and clemency. On Monday, Jeffrey Addicott, a former Army attorney and director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St Mary's Law School in Texas, submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice petitions for a presidential pardon and for clemency to get Kristian Saucier out of jail.

Iraq War Anniversary: Bombing began 10 years ago

ORG XMIT: PERSPECTIVExxB.JPG METRO Press-Enterprise reporter Michael Coronado, left, receives gas mask training with other journalists in Kuwait before embedding with Marines from the 7th ESB. ORG XMIT: WARxxF.JPG METRO U.S. Marines attached to Engineer Support Battalion of the First Force Service Support Group in Kuwait pratice first aid techniques at Camp Betio to be applied in the battle field.