Airstrike Agreement Keeps US Air Controllers Away From Combat The Air Force has worked out a way to fly close air support for the Iraqis without having U.S. troops calling in the strikes.
Navy Replaces Ships in Arabian Gulf as Bombing Continues The U.S. Navy participated in 11 coalition air strikes against the Islamic State as the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier...
Panetta Blasts White House for Pulling US Forces out of Iraq Panetta is lashing out at President Obama's inner circle for failing to secure a 2011 deal to leave U.S. troops in Iraq.
Operations in Iraq And Syria Finally to Get a Name After 55 days of bombing in Iraq and Syria, the military has decided that the fight against the Islamic State will finally...
Obama Holds ISIS Strategy Session at Pentagon President Obama met with the head of the U.S. Central Command and other defense leaders at the Pentagon Wednesday to review...
Pentagon Names Airstrikes Against ISIS 'Operation Inherent Resolve' The name will be retroactive to actions against ISIS extremists in the region going back to Aug. 8, when airstrikes began.
Austin Defends Effectiveness of Airstrikes Against ISIS More than two months of airstrikes have had the “desired effects” in degrading Islamic extremist forces in Iraq and Syria...
Hagel: US Troops Fighting Islamic State Will Get Combat Pay U.S. troops fighting Islamic militants in northern Iraq and possibly Syria will receive combat pay, Defense Secretary Chuck...
Iraqi Security Forces Gain Ground Against ISIS Iraqi soldiers and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have made progress retaking territory in the ongoing ground fight against the...
NATO: ISIS Fighters Pose 'Lone Wolf' Threat to Europe NATO's commander warned of the threat posed by ISIS “lone wolf” terrorists returning to Europe and the U.S.
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...
