Costs of Campaign Against Islamic State Near $1 Billion The costs of the U.S. campaign against the Islamic State are approaching $1 billion as the pace of the airstrikes increase.
US Delays Delivery of F-16s to Iraq, Re-Routes Them to Arizona Citing the escalating threat of the Islamic State, the U.S. announced it would delay delivery of eight F-16 fighter planes to...
Dempsey Softens Carter's Line on Iraqis Lacking 'Will to Fight' Gen.. Martin Dempsey has been trying to clarify what Defense Secretary Ashton Carter really meant by charging that the Iraqis...
CentCom: No Evidence of ISIS Using Mustard Gas Against Kurds The U.S. has yet to find solid evidence that ISIS used mustard gas against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, CentCom said...
Retired General Replaced by Lawyer as Special Envoy to Iraq, Syria President Obama replaced a retired four-star general with a lawyer as his Special Envoy for Iraq and Syria.
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...
ISIS Burns Fighters Alive for Letting Ramadi Fall ISIS fighters who fled to the terror group's Iraqi stronghold of Mosul after being defeated in Ramadi were burned alive in...
Sanders Says US and Russia Should Support Muslim Troops Targeting ISIS Sen. Bernie Sanders said the US,its allies and Russia should provide air power and equipment to Arab countries fighting ISIS.
Soldier Who Fought VA, Blamed Cancer on Iraq 'Burn Pits,' Dies A decorated Army veteran who battled the VA over treatment for cancer he claimed to have gotten from working over burn pits...
SEAL Keating Was Part of Rescue Team for 'Dynamic Gunfight' with ISIS Navy SEAL Charles Keating IV was fatally wounded in a gunfight with ISIS attackers while coming to the rescue of other...
Watchdog Finds 50% Increase in VA Medical Center Jobs with 'Severe' Shortages This year, Veterans Health Administration facilities reported 4,434 severe occupational staffing shortages in jobs ranging...
4 Out of 5 US Troops Surveyed Understand the Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into...
National Guard Rehearsed Show of Force Against Immigration Raid Protesters, General Testifies National Guard troops repeatedly rehearsed their role in an operation at a Los Angeles park intended as a show of force...
San Diego Espionage Trial Begins for Sailor Accused of Spying for His Native China Jinchao “Patrick” Wei, 25, is accused of seven counts of conspiracy, espionage and charges related to unlawfully sending...
Trump and Putin Will Meet at an Alaska Military Base Long Used to Counter Russia The base created by merging Elmendorf Air Force Base and Army Fort Richardson in 2010 has played a key strategic role in...
