Carter Warns About ISIS Push in Iraq and AQAP Threat in Yemen Defense Secretary Ashton Carter acknowledged that a resurgent ISIS was threatening to take the capital of Anbar province in...
Dempsey Apologizes to Fallen SEAL's Mom for Ramadi Comments Gen. Dempsey apologized to the mother of a SEAL killed in Ramadi for saying the city's capture by Islamic State was not...
Pentagon IG Investigating Possibly Skewed Intelligence on ISIS Strikes The DoD's Inspector General is looking into charges that upbeat analysis has skewed progress reports on the campaign against...
US Commander Rejects Iraqi Complaints on Lack of Airstrikes A lack of U.S. airstrikes was not to blame for the lengthy delays in Iraqi efforts to retake Ramadi, a U.S. commander said...
US Pulls Surveillance of ISIS Convoy After Russian Request The ISIS convoy was given safe passage over 10 days ago to travel across the Syrian desert to the Iraqi border.
US Military Ordering Troops in Iraq to Dust Off Chemical Weapon Suits The U.S. military has ordered its nearly 3,500 troops stationed in Iraq to reacquaint themselves with their chemical weapons...
Women in Combat: Silver Stars, Combat Action Badges and Casualties More than 9K female troops have earned Combat Action Badges in modern combat operations, including those in Iraq and...
Turkey Will 'Very Soon' Begin Bombing ISIS in Iraq, Syria: Pentagon The airstrikes are expected to start after Turkey and the U.S. finalize targeting details, a Pentagon spokesman said.
US Army Gen. Odierno Retires amid Controversy over Iraq Remarks Gen. Ray Odierno stepped down Friday as Army chief of staff amid controversy over his remarks on the campaign against ISIS.
Army Announces Troop Rotations to Iraq and Afghanistan The Army will be sending 3,000 troops to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait in August and September to replace troops already there...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Army Col. Ryan Dillon, a U.S. coalition spokesman, said at a Sept. 7 press conference from Baghdad that the coalition was "able to exploit and take advantage" of an ISIS convoy traveling across Syria. (DoD photo)](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/media/people/2017/09/ryandillon090917.jpg?itok=-nuEI7JI "Army Col. Ryan Dillon, a U.S. coalition spokesman, said at a Sept. 7 press conference from Baghdad that the coalition was "able to exploit and take advantage" of an ISIS convoy traveling across Syria. (DoD photo)")
