Coalition Airstrikes Killed 2,500 ISIS Fighters in December: Pentagon ISIS has lost about 40 percent of the territory it once controlled in Iraq and an estimated 2,500 fighters to coalition...
Former ISIS Sex Slaves Now Army of 'Sun Ladies' Ready to Defeat Group They witnessed the slaughter of their families on Mount Sinjar, and then were forced by ISIS into sexual slavery. Now the...
Partner Forces Closing in on Raqqa and Mosul: Carter Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq -- the two main ISIS strongholds -- are under increasing pressure from U.S.-backed forces...
US Forces Killed Islamic State's No. 2 Leader, Carter Says U.S. forces killed the No. 2 in the Islamic State's chain of command in an operation this month, Defense Secretary Carter...
No Plan Yet to Retake Raqqa: US Military Disarray among the various Syrian rebel factions backed by the U.S. has left them without a plan thus far to retake the ISIS...
ISIS Moving to Shore Up Defenses of Raqqa, Pentagon Says ISIS was moving to bolster the defenses of its self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa in Syria in fear of an imminent major attack.
Obama Criticizes Trumps Rhetoric on Radical Islamic Terrorism President Obama hit back at Trump and others who routinely criticize him for not using the phrase "radical Islamic terror."
US to Coordinate with French on Response to Nice Attacks The U.S. and France will coordinate a response to Nice expected to involve increased French support for the anti-ISIS...
Outgoing US Commander in Iraq: ISIS Collapsing on 'All Fronts' The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria said Wednesday that "the enemy is in retreat on all fronts."
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
