OTTAWA, June 6 (UPI) -- An international veteran with the Canadian military was named chief of defense staff in Ottawa Friday by the Conservative government.

OTTAWA, April 22 (UPI) -- Canadian air force pilots flew missions in the war in Iraq as part of training on new Boeing C-17 aircraft, a leaked memo said.

OTTAWA, April 15 (UPI) -- The chief of Canada's military defense staff, Gen. Rick Hillier, announced his resignation in Ottawa Tuesday after three years in the post.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, March 20 (UPI) -- The Holy Grail of hockey, the Stanley Cup, was on display Thursday at a Canadian military base in Afghanistan on a morale-boosting mission.

OTTAWA, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents are gleaning intelligence from soldiers' Internet postings from Afghanistan, a Canadian general in Ottawa said.

OTTAWA, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- NATO announced Canadian Maj. Gen. Marc Lessard has assumed command of the 12,000-soldier NATO international security assistance force in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

OTTAWA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Canada's top military officer has criticized a proposal to end all of his country's combat efforts in Afghanistan by February 2009.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's top-ranked soldier, was spending Christmas Eve with 2,000 Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

OTTAWA, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Canada's defense minister admits that the country is "scrambling" to find soldiers to meet its obligations in Afghanistan.