A video captured protesters in Washington, D.C., yelling at police officers to "get off our streets!" as law enforcement set up a checkpoint along a popular nightlife corridor in the nation’s capital.

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital would ...

Three members of the armed forces were killed and 10 wounded in a mine explosion as they took control of the checkpoint at Abu Grain, said Mohamed al-Gasri, a spokesman for an operation room set up by ...