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Staff Sgt. Robert Bales returned to his base covered in blood and was surprised when he was detained by U.S. soldiers, prosecutors said Monday at the beginning of Bales’s pre-trial hearing.

Bales is charged with 16 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder after a killing spree in March that had reverberations from Kabul to Washington, drawing condemnations from President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the midst of a tense period for U.S.-Afghan relations.

Prosecutor Lt. Col. Joseph Morse gave the first detailed account of what happened that March night during Monday’s hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, according to reports.

Everyone in Congress seems to want a bite at the Libya apple.

A major shift will likely redefine the way America's largest land-based fighting force will wage war.

The first in a slew of Army units designed to expand American military presence across the globe is heading Africa Command, tasked with forging and increasing military cooperation with U.S. allies on the continent, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter. 

The South Carolina Republican on Tuesday rejected the classification of the 2009 shooting as a case of workplace violence.

Republicans say Defense officials have not improved access to ballots for overseas personnel. 

Heavy turnover threatens to end the bipartisan camaraderie that has long defined the panel, insiders say.

Picking up on Thursday's heavy critique of the Obama administration's defense and national security strategy, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney hammered the White House for its decision to eliminate a critical piece of the U.S. military arsenal. 

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of going on a shooting spree during his deployment in Afghanistan, will stand trial before a military court in early November. 

An increase in "insider" attacks on U.S. troops by terrorists posing as Afghan policy or soldiers shows the Taliban is "desperate," Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno said Monday. 

"I try to remind everybody, this is a new tactic. The Taliban is desperate. They try to come up with new tactics as they see themselves losing ground," Odierno told "Fox and Friends" on Monday. 

The insider attacks have spiked dramatically in recent months, and account for 14 percent of coalition casualties in 2012, according to the Pentagon. 

"The most important thing is you have to remember is there are hundreds of thousands of Afghan soldiers and police. This is a very, very, very small number. We can't sacrifice what we're trying to do over there because of these small numbers who's trying to is that systematically change what's going on in Afghanistan," he said.