Europe Military Bases Go on Heightened Alert as Pentagon Officials Cite Olympics, Euro Cup U.S. military bases across Europe were put on heightened alert over the weekend due to concerns that terrorist activity or...
US Appeals Court to Reconsider Dismissal of Former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Conviction The Justice Department filed an appeal last week immediately after a U.S. District Court judge spelled out his reasons for...
The Operation That Took Out Osama Bin Laden On May 2, 2011, SEAL Team Six descended upon a compound in Pakistan, blew down doors and engaged enemy combatants. The goal...
Pentagon Vows to Press On with Counterterror Mission as Negotiations to Depart Niger Begin The potential military withdrawal from Niger comes more than a month after the military junta ruling the country made the...
ISIS Fighters Surrender in Syria, Others Killed in Afghanistan Many civilians have been fleeing Raqqa, ahead of an anticipated final push by U.S.-backed fighters seeking to retake the city...
Op-Ed: US Faces Daunting Foreign Policy Challenges in 2018 2017 brought a wide array of international challenges to U.S. policymakers. 2018 promises more of the same.
Moscow Terror Attack Showed Growing Reach of ISIS-K – Could the US Be Next? Considering ISIS-K’s track record and clear aspirations, it would be naïve to dismiss the possibility of an attack on...
How Moscow Terror Attack Fits ISIS-K Strategy to Widen Agenda, Take Fight to Its Perceived Enemies Established in 2015, ISIS-K aims to establish a physical "caliphate" – a system of governing a society under strict Islamic...
US Troops Staying Behind In Syria Could Face Threats From Assad Regime U.S. troops guarding oil wells in Syria could face a threat from the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On the Hunt for al-Qaida in East Africa with the US Military's Most Secretive Unit An excerpt from "The Unit: My Life Fighting Terrorists as One of America's Most Secret Military Operatives" by Adam Gamal...
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...
