Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 40, pleaded guilty in June in a deal to avoid the death penalty, and the only possible sentences for the jury to consider are life in prison with the possibility of release ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I prosecuted Robert Bales. Justice demands he remain in prison. The pardoning of convicted war criminals puts our national ...

Charges against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales "could come sometime this week," The Wall Street Journal reports. That's a development further confirmed by the AP, citing an anonymous military legal expert ...

Afghan officials say that one of Robert Bales's 16 victims was a pregnant woman, possibly explaining why the military has charged Bales with 17 murders.Meanwhile, Bales's wife Kari, in an interview ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Bales sat quietly in the courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state as military prosecutors summarized the events of ...

The News Tribune of Tacoma obtained an eight-page letter Staff Sgt. Robert Bales wrote to the senior Army officer at Joint Base Lewis-McChord requesting that his life sentence be reduced. He said his ...

The adventurism and impunity of the Cold War live on in the modern military. By David Wallace-Wells As cases of lawless behavior and extrajudicial killings mounted, the Special Forces had to decide ...