A welcome home ceremony, one year in the making, awaited a group of Kansas National Guardsmen at Landon Middle School Saturday morning.

All troops at Afghanistan bases were ordered to carry loaded weapons around the clock after an increase in attacks by Afghan security forces, a U.S. official said Friday. "Green-on-blue" attacks have been carried out by Afghans in security uniforms.

Melissa Jarboe unveiled a sculpture she had made to represent the wedding photo she and her husband Jamie would have had. Jamie died of injuries suffered in Afghanistan.

Officers say some of the U.S. troops killed early today are thought to be special operations forces. Other Operation Enduring Freedom copter crashes have killed Americans and Turks this year.

A new elementary school on Fort Riley has welcomed 675 students for the start of the new school year. The project was completed ahead of schedule and under budget.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation suspended Syria Wednesday from membership.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announces WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London. Patino says British authorities have threatened to "assault" the embassy adding, "We are not a British colony."

The USAF's unmanned X-51A Waverider went out of control Wednesday before the scramjet engine could be ignited, the Air Force said.

Controllers "couldn't be happier" with Curiosity so far, a scientist says after the rover landed in Gale Crater on August 6; The rover could take its first short test drive in about a week, the mission manager says.

At least 70 people have been killed across Syria on Tuesday, the opposition reports. Officials vote to suspend Syria from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

New details are emerging following a deadly head-on collision in Marion County involving a military family. Troopers say a Fort Riley soldier is the only member of his family who survived the accident.

An Afghan policeman opened fire on NATO forces and Afghan soldiers Monday morning in the fifth apparent attack in a week by Afghan security forces on their international partners. The U.S.-led military coalition says none of its service members were killed.

The U.S. Navy said its guided missile destroyer collided with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz early Sunday morning.

Family and friends anxiously awaited the arrival of 112 soldiers from the first battalion 108th Aviation Regiment Kansas National Guard.. The homecoming was presented in a ceremony at Washburn University's Lee Arena Saturday morning.

An Afghan working on an installation shared by Afghan and foreign forces shot and killed three American service members Friday - raising to six the number of U.S. troops killed by their Afghan partners in 24 hours.

The short list of candidates is believed to include Ohio Rep. Rob Portman, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. Saturday's announcement will be made in Norfolk.

Col. Glenn Palmer, commander of the 737th Training Group at Lackland AFB, speaks to trainees in San Antonio. The Air Force has relieved Palmer, a top commander at Lackland Air Force base from his position in the wake of wake of a widening sex scandal. (William Luther, AP Photo/ The San Antonio Express-News)

360-degree color panorama of Gale Crater includes Mount Sharp. The peak is the Mars rover Curiosity's prime target. The Curiosity rover performed "flawlessly" on its third day on Mars, according to NASA controllers.

The unmanned Morpheus is designed to carry cargo to the moon. NASA calls failed tests "part of the development process," as operators recover data from the crashed lander.

When Wisconsin temple gunman Wade Michael Page arrived at Fort Bragg in 1995, the sprawling Army base in North Carolina already was home to a small number of white supremacists including three soldiers later convicted in the murder of an African-American couple.

At least 57 members of an Islamist sect, including children, have been discovered living underground in the Republic of Tatarstan, according to Russian police

The Kansas National Guard ushered one of their very own into retirement after over 40 years of service.

Opposition reports at least 116 deaths in fighting across the country Monday. Analysts say Riyad Hijab's departure is a symbolic blow for Syria's government.

A Topeka woman plans to unveil a memorial tribute to her new husband, who died this spring after being severely wounded last year in Afghanistan.

Rebel and Syrian forces battled early Saturday for a building that houses state-run TV and radio studios in Aleppo, a day after the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that slams the Syrian government for its actions and the U.N. Security Council for its failure to counter the crisis.