Hamid ul Rahman Qazi and Masooda Qazi, who were successful lawyers in Afghanistan, fled Kabul as it fell to the Taliban last year with their sons Habib, 10, and Hasib, 5. The couple's young daughter, ...

FOLSOM, Calif. (Tribune News Service) — Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews came home to Folsom in time for Independence Day, and thousands of people were there to welcome him. “It’s surreal,” he said.

Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews came home to Folsom in time for Independence Day, and thousands of people were there to welcome him. “It’s surreal,” he said. He’s home after spending the past 18 ...

On a recent foggy morning, Cheryl Rex drove from the foothills of Rancho Cucamonga to Long Beach to spend some quiet time thinking about her son. At Rosie the Riveter Park, she walked over to a nearly ...

SAN DIEGO — Most of them were based at Camp Pendleton, but they came from all over America, from small towns and suburbs. And that’s where the sorrow and the pride linger, one year later. The 13 U.S.

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Faze Ahmed returned to Irvine Friday night, which began with an embrace from his mother at LAX. His family is relieved that he is back on U.S. soil. The 31-year-old is a University of California, ...

Masooda Qazi held her 8-year-old son's hand tightly as she frantically tried to convey to a group of Dutch soldiers that she was an employee of the U.S. Embassy and was promised transport out of Kabul ...