International Business News - Soldier http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The corpse of a man believed to be a North Korean soldier has been found in a South Korean river near the border of the two countries. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff says an army guard fired warning shots after finding an unidentified object drifting down the river near the eastern section of the Korean border Tuesday morning. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080902/corpse-of-suspected-nkorean-soldier-found.htm Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:30:57 EDT Army National Guard soldiers from farm states are hoping to fight terrorism and grow Afghanistan's farm economy, one legitimate crop at a time. Guard soldiers have been in the country since February teaching modern farming practices in hopes of supplanting fields of opium poppies with wheat and other crops. While their work is limited to a small part of the country, they believe it is making a difference. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/soldiers-working-with-afghan-farmers-to-grow-wheat.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:28:11 EDT A Mexican soldier has won his job back six years after he was kicked out of the military for testing HIV positive. The soldier from western Mexican state of Jalisco was removed from his job after 20 years of service. But a federal court has ruled in his favor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/court-has-hiv-positive-mexican-soldier-reinstated.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:52:07 EDT Hundreds of soldiers in camouflage set off Tuesday on a 10-day march to Poland's holiest Roman Catholic shrine--among them five Americans hoping to deepen ties with an ally. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/hundreds-of-us-soldiers-join-polish-pilgrimage.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:02:22 EDT Spc. Megan Touma and a married Sgt. Edgar Patino began their relationship when both were stationed in Germany. Patino transferred in January to Fort Bragg, and a pregnant Touma followed six months later. A day after she arrived, police said, the two met in a motel room near the North Carolina base. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101020-pregnant-soldier-dead.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/questions-remain-in-slaying-of-pregnant-soldier.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/questions-remain-in-slaying-of-pregnant-soldier.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:25:16 EDT A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a pregnant colleague whose partially decomposed body was found in a motel bathtub in Fayetteville more than a month ago, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/100363-pregnant-soldier-death.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/man-arrested-in-death-of-pregnant-soldier-in-n-c.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/man-arrested-in-death-of-pregnant-soldier-in-n-c.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:13:01 EDT Colleagues of a soldier captured by insurgents in Iraq more than a year ago saluted his casket Tuesday and carried it to a memorial service past a glass case containing the fallen serviceman's boots, helmet and goggles arranged in the shape of a field cross. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95894-missing-soldier-memorial.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/saying-goodbye-to-a-found-but-fallen-mich-soldier.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/saying-goodbye-to-a-found-but-fallen-mich-soldier.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:36:51 EDT A Fort Bliss soldier's husband kicked her in the face, stabbed her and raped her before abducting her from her off-post apartment last week and taking her to Las Vegas, police said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/95218-addition-missing-soldier.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/sister-missing-fort-bliss-soldier-found-alive.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/sister-missing-fort-bliss-soldier-found-alive.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:33:53 EDT The U.S.-led coalition says one of its members has died after being wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's troubled south. The coalition says in a statement that the blast occurred in Helmand province Sunday and that the wounded fighter died Monday morning. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/afghanistan-coalition-member-killed-in-bombing.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:21:27 EDT A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday. "Hey sis he's gone so when my check comes I'm going to buy a futon," Army Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis wrote in the text message Wednesday, said her sister, Tammy Skelton. "Yeah, he's gone. Had police go with me yesterday, it's all clear." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94244-missing-soldier.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/search-continues-for-missing-fort-bliss-soldier.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080720/search-continues-for-missing-fort-bliss-soldier.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:24:59 EDT A missing Fort Bliss soldier sent a text message about leaving her husband two days before she vanished, her sister said Saturday. "Hey sis he's gone so when my check comes I'm going to buy a futon," Army Pfc. Jeneesa Lewis wrote in the text message Wednesday, said her sister, Tammy Skelton. "Yeah, he's gone. Had police go with me yesterday, it's all clear." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94220-missing-soldier.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/police-missing-texas-soldier-may-be-in-danger.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080719/police-missing-texas-soldier-may-be-in-danger.htm Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:22:09 EDT Police say a Fort Bliss soldier is considered in danger after she did not report for work Friday and evidence of foul play was found in her apartment. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/police-missing-texas-soldier-may-be-in-danger.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:50:53 EDT It's a scene that's become all too familiar in North Carolina's military communities. For the third time in seven months, a young woman serving her nation has been slain at home, away from the dangers of combat. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/91705-soldier-apartment-fire.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/dead-army-nurses-husband-charged-with-murder.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080715/dead-army-nurses-husband-charged-with-murder.htm Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:26:37 EDT Israelis pored Monday over every detail of 20-year-old pictures just received of their most famous missing soldier--his injured arm held close, the length of his beard and the Arabic writing on a wall in the background. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/91200-mideast-israel-missing-soldier.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/israelis-gripped-by-new-photos-of-missing-airman.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/israelis-gripped-by-new-photos-of-missing-airman.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:02:31 EDT The husband of an Army nurse who worked in the maternity ward at Fort Bragg's hospital was charged Monday with murder in her death, a day after her body was discovered by authorities. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/father-says-nc-remains-in-fire-are-missing-soldier.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:25:23 EDT The bodies of two U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year have been found, their families said Thursday night. The military would not immediately confirm the report. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89560-missing-soldier.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/bodies-of-2-missing-us-soldiers-are-found-in-iraq.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080711/bodies-of-2-missing-us-soldiers-are-found-in-iraq.htm Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:26:21 EDT Families say the bodies of two U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq for more than a year have been found. The father of Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez of Lawrence, Mass., says the military told him Thursday that the remains of his son were identified in Iraq. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/89465-missing-soldiers.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/father-body-of-missing-soldier-found-in-iraq.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/father-body-of-missing-soldier-found-in-iraq.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:30:30 EDT Authorities were searching Thursday for a female soldier who was missing after a suspicious fire burned her apartment near Fort Bragg. The soldier has not been identified while police tried to reach her family and find out if anyone knew where she was, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/soldier-missing-after-fire-at-her-nc-apartment.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:20:35 EDT A former Army medic made famous by a photograph that showed him carrying an injured Iraqi boy during the first week of the war in March 2003 has died of an apparent overdose, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/army-medic-made-famous-in-iraq-photo-dies.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:08:02 EDT A pregnant soldier lay dead in the bathtub. Reportedly scrawled on the motel-room mirror in lipstick was a crosshair design--the same symbol contained in a letter that arrived at the local newspaper four days later. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/83679-pregnant-soldier-death.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/pregnant-soldier-is-slain.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/pregnant-soldier-is-slain.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:18:45 EDT