A 3-year-old girl who was recovered as a baby after being injured in a military raid in Afghanistan is now at the center of court battles in the United States as two families say they want to care for ...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A U.S. Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest levels of government will remain on active duty. A ...

A Marine who adopted an Afghan war orphan amid a lengthy legal clash will remain on active duty, a panel of officers ruled Tuesday. The baby girl was found abandoned on an Afghan battlefield in 2019 ...

A military administrative board of inquiry hearing overseen by three officers from Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) at Camp Lejeune from Oct 2-8 substantiated allegations against a ...

From Doe v. Mast, decided Wednesday by Judge Norman Moon (W.D. Va.) (for more on the recent Virginia Court of Appeals decision voiding the adoption, see this AP story [Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman ...

(AP) — A Virginia appellate court ruled Tuesday that a U.S. Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he’s relied on to raise the girl for ...

FILE - U.S. Marine Corp Major Joshua Mast, center, talks with his attorneys during a break in the hearing of an ongoing custody battle over an Afghan orphan, March 30, 2023, at the Circuit Courthouse ...

Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, arrive at Circuit Court for a hearing in an ongoing custody battle over an Afghan orphan, March 30, 2023, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A Virginia appellate court ruled Tuesday that a U.S. Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he’s relied on to ...