Graham Blasts Pentagon Officials for Haphazard Strategy in Syria Sen. Lindsey Graham was frustrated with the Pentagon's recent failure to train and equip moderate forces to fight in Syria.
US Troops Guide Airstrikes for Kurds in Major Iraq Offensive U.S. troops were moving with a mostly Kurdish force and guiding airstrikes in an offensive to retake the Sinjar region of...
Hagel Resurfaces to Blast Obama Administration's ISIS Strategy The former defense secretary joined his predecessors in criticizing the Obama administration on Mideast policy and ISIS.
House Committee Votes to Directly Arm Kurds in Northern Iraq A House committee has approved a bill calling on the president to directly arm the Kurds fighting ISIS in northern Iraq...
Special Forces Reportedly Finds ISIS Fatwa Supporting Organ Harvesting US special forces reportedly captured an ISIS fatwa earlier this year that supports the harvesting of human organs.
Carter Signals US Plans to Deploy More Troops to Iraq Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has again addressed the controversial issue of U.S. "boots on the ground" in Iraq and Syria.
Missing Radioactive Material in Iraq Prompts Search, ISIS Fears A desperate hunt for "highly dangerous" radioactive material is on in Iraq, where officials fear it could be used to make a...
Marine Combat Death in Iraq Exposes Challenge of Quickened ISIS Fight The death of a Marine in Iraq highlights the difficulty of the "accelerated" campaign to take back Mosul from ISIS.
Video of Military Convoy New Evidence Russia Not Pulling Out of Syria There is more evidence that Russian forces are not pulling out of Syria, but instead, more troops are arriving there, a new...
Trump: Under My Administration, ISIS' Days Will Be Numbered Donald Trump appeared in Washington to outline a foreign policy stance that purported to add new funding for the armed forces...
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...