As we honor our veterans on Wednesday, we’re also faced with a grim reality that many of them…are unemployed. The Aiken County employment office sees as many as 350 vets a month, looking for a job. We spoke with an Iraqi veteran, on her way to Afghanistan, injured, and then left standing in the unemployment line. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.

When soldiers return home from to the front lines it may be hard for them to adjust back into society, but a new program is aimed at helping them re-establish and help themselves. WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud has the story.

Thousands of men and women have lost their lives in the serving our country, and Thursday, along with Fort Gordon, we salute a mother who lost her son on the battlefield. WJBF News Channel 6’s Kimberely Scott spent Thursday morning in Thomson, and has this story.

Hundreds gathered at Fort Gordon today, to say goodbye. Four hundred soldiers from the 35th signal brigade and 67th signal battalion are shipping out. WJBF News Channel 6’s Joy Howe has the story.

The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of al-Qaida, a person familiar with the program said Wednesday.

Iraqi officials have raised the death toll in a wave of bombings in Baghdad to at least 86 with more than 300 wounded. It is the deadliest toll this year for what appeared to be a coordinated attack.

Taking the time out to say thanks. That’s what the folks at American Legion Post 178 did Monday. They fed about 35 soldiers, who have returned from Iraq with injuries.

The Air Force general who will direct the air battle over Iraq and Afghanistan says a new U.S. military approach may mean fly overs by noisy planes rather than bombing the enemy.

The Air Force is putting a new three-star general in charge of its forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and moving him to the front as the conflict in Afghanistan heats up.

A mother of a fallen SC soldier remembers him by painting pictures from digital pictures he left behind. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has the story.

He was the first casualty in the first Persian Gulf War, 18 years ago, but his body was never found. Now, 18 years after the crash of Captain Michael “Scott” Speicher’s jet, his family finally has some closure. CNN’s Samantha Hayes reports.

The mother of an American freelance journalist missing in Iran says she is concerned for the “safety and welfare” of her son and two other Americans. Shane Bauer’s mother, Cindy Hickey, says her son is one of the three Americans believed to have been arrested by Iranian authorities last week on a hiking trip in northern Iraq.

Britain says it will withdraw its remaining forces in Iraq to Kuwait, after the Iraqi parliament failed to pass a deal allowing the British troops to stay beyond the end of the month.

President Barack Obama is telling the Associated Press that he always has reserved the right to adjust the U.S. troop withdrawal timetable in Iraq based on changing circumstances. But he says he’s confident the U.S. will be able to abide by agreements it made with Iraqis.

Pentagon officials say five Americans are dead after a U.S. soldier opened fire at a U.S. base in Baghdad. They say the attacker is in custody.