PHU LAM YAI, Thailand — About 30 U.S. and Thai troops braced themselves Sunday as more than 730 pounds of TNT and nearly 20 ...

It consists of a large bowl, known as a mortar, and a heavy, club shaped stick called a pestle; these are often made of stone or ceramic, giving them plenty of strength to crush and grind spices.

Servicemen attached to Battlegroup East have destroyed a temporary deployment site of the Ukrainian military near the Velikaya Novoselka settlement using a Tulpan self-propelled heavy mortar ...