Local Forces Must Exploit Gains from US Strikes against ISIS: James Air Force Secretary Deborah James said local forces in Iraq and Syria need to secure gains made by coalition airstrikes...
Special Operations Teams to Iraq, Syria Puts More Boots on the Ground The deployment of Special Operations teams to Iraq will put more U.S. troops in combat despite President Obama's ban on...
House Weighs Directly Arming Kurds in Northern Iraq, Skirting Baghdad House lawmakers will debate a bill calling on President Obama to arms Kurdish Peshmerga forces directly instead of sending...
Iraqis Make Gains in Drive to Retake Ramadi from ISIS: Pentagon Iraqi forces have pushed toward the center of Ramadi amid predictions that they would retake the capital of Anbar province...
US Navy Corpsmen, Marines Assist with Lifesaving Efforts in Iraq Wounded Iraqi soldiers are brought to Camp Manion, where U.S. Navy corpsmen and Marines are the first responders to treat...
Like Kurds, Sunnis in Iraq Want Direct US Arms Shipments to Fight ISIS Three former Iraqi government officials said Sunni forces in the campaign against Islamic State are asking Congress for...
Obama to Confer with Commanders on Intensifying Fight against ISIS President Barack Obama will visit the Pentagon Monday to confer with commanders on new tactics to intensify the campaign...
Obama Pledges to Battle ISIS, Shutter Gitmo in Last Year in Office President Obama said he's optimistic that in 2016 he will close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and continue battling...
With US Help, Iraqi Security Forces Move Against ISIS in Ramadi Center U.S. training in bridge building paid off for the Iraq Security Forces who used a portable bridge to gain access to the...
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...
