US Trainers for ISIS Fight Deploying Ahead of Congressional Approval Some of the 1,500 additional troops President Obama wants for Iraq will begin going there ahead of congressional approval of...
Obama Presses for New Authority To Attack ISIS in State of the Union President Obama last night called on Congress to provide authorization to continue airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon Says Congress Must Send Strong Signal to ISIS with AUMF Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle argued over the level of detail Congress should include in the AUMF against ISIS put...
Ramadi Fall Shows Iraqis Lack Will to Fight: Carter The Iraqis currently lack the will to fight in the struggle against ISIS, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Sunday.
US Reportedly Blocks Arab Allies' Attempts to Deliver Weapons to Kurds The U.S. has reportedly blocked any attempts by Middle East allies to fly weapons to the Kurds fighting the Islamic State in...
US Commander: Initial Tests Show ISIS Used Mustard Gas Initial field tests have indicated that Islamic militants may have used mustard gas in an Aug. 11 attack on Kurdish peshmerga...
Russia's Embassy in Syria Mortared as Its Military Buildup Continues Syrian rebels mortared the Russian embassy in Damascus as the Russian military buildup accelerated, with 28 attack jets now...
Delta Force Death in Iraq Doesn't Reflect 'Combat Role,' Carter Says Defense Secretary Ashton Carter struggled to define combat in describing the death of Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler in Iraq.
Explosion Reportedly Heard on Black Box in Russian Plane Crash The black box recorder of the Russian passenger plane that crashed on its way back from Egypt's Sinai resort of Sharm el...
Suspected Mastermind of Paris Massacre Killed in Terror Raid The man suspected of ringleading last Friday's Paris attacks that killed 129 people was killed in the police raid north of...
Tennessee Man Shot Dead After Flipping Middle Finger at War Memorial Albert Sturgill Jr., 63, was confronted by a group while gesturing at the flag and monuments at Cumberland County Veterans...
Chicago Braces for Potential National Guard Deployment Amid Trump Threats Illinois politicians are sounding an alarm and bracing for possible National Guard deployments to Chicago amid President...
9/11 Air Defense Stories You Might Not Know As hijacked planes turned into weapons on September 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York...
Is Trump's Troop Buildup in US Cities a Declaration of War — or Something Else? As President Donald Trump goads Democratic-led cities, Americans are grappling with a fundamental question of American...
Navy Demotion Reversed for GOP Congressman Who Government Watchdog Found Abused Subordinates Jackson was quietly demoted to captain in 2022, three years after his retirement from the Navy, following an inspector...