U.S. troops overseas celebrate holidays with new traditions, special meals and community events while serving far from home across the Pacific region.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. has ruled that National Guard troops can remain in the city for now. That decision comes after a different federal appeals court ruled that troops must leave Los Angeles earlier this week.

The killing of three Americans during what was said to be a counterterrorism operation in central Syria served as a reminder that U.S. troops are still operating in the country.

U.S. troops remain deployed in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen under war authorities, conducting raids and airstrikes in conflicts most Americans have forgotten.

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

This attack was Adolf Hitler’s last attempt to turn World War II in his favor following the Allied D-Day invasion in June 1944, where roughly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Nazi-occupied France and successfully executed the largest air, land, and sea invasion in history.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country's eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia's war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces.