When a Colombian commando suspected of joining ex-soldiers in the fatal shooting of Haiti’s president escaped to Jamaica, he soon grew weary of life on the lam and arranged to meet with U.S.

An Israeli special forces member of a military K-9 unit looks around as US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (unseen) visits a military base near Tel Aviv, on April 23, 2013. Hagel met Israel's ...

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