Army major on trial for rape charges involving more than a dozen women
Maj. Jonathan Batt is accused of a variety of sexual and aggravated assaults on women in Arlington, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., between 2019 and 2023.
By Todd South
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DOD stops offering rape kits to most overseas civilian workers
DOD civilian workers and contractors overseas who are ineligible for the Military Health System will no longer be provided sexual assault forensic exams.
By Riley Ceder
Officer accused of raping and stalking a fellow sailor
The junior officer's attorney denies the allegations.
Is the Pentagon breaking a law designed to help sexual assault victims?
An audit released last week casts doubt on whether the services are listening to victims.
Why McSally is right, and wrong, about military sexual assaults
Sen. Martha McSally's belief that commanders should remain at the center of the solution to sexual assault in the military is unfounded.
By Paula Coughlin
Fort Gordon sailors charged with raping, sodomizing 18-year-old woman at party
All three sailors are being detained in the Richmond County Jail.
By J.D. Simkins
Arizona senator reveals she was raped by a superior officer while in the Air Force
Martha McSally, a key Republican voice on military issues in the Senate, said she kept the assault hidden because of fear of how military leaders would handle it.
After latest FONOP, China fires ’stern complaints’ at US
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters on Monday that China dispatched planes and ships to demand that the guided-missile destroyer McCampbell leave waters around the Paracel Islands.
Attorney: Navy officer accused of rape was engaged in ‘bizarre role playing sexual game’ with junior officer
The Navy is seeking to try Cmdr. John M. Neuhart on rape and other charges involving a drunken night with a female lieutenant in 2016. It's a case that has gone through the civilian justice system three times.
Settlement reached in infamous ‘Norfolk 4’ case
The city of Norfolk has agreed to pay $4.9 million to four former sailors who were wrongly convicted of a woman’s rape and murder based on intimidating police interrogations. A copy of the settlement agreement for the “Norfolk Four” was obtained by The Associated Press.
Deployed border troops are preparing for militias stealing their gear, protester violence, documents show
An estimated 200 armed militia members are on the border and have stolen troops' gear in the past, DoD documents show.
By Tara Copp, AP
Nobel prizes focus attention on rape as a weapon of war
The atrocities unfold as victorious fighters sweep into seized territory, using sexual violence out of a sense of impunity or entitlement or as a way to terrorize and punish communities.
By Christopher Torchia, The Associated Press