Iran-Iraq Deal Challenges US Fight Against ISIS Militants Iran and Iraq have reached a cooperation agreement that complicates the U.S.-Iraq arrangement to combat Islamic State...
Army Seeks to Identify Troops, Veterans Exposed to Chemical Weapons The Army is using news reports, documents and a hotline to identify troops and vets exposed to chemical warfare agents in...
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.
Sen. Graham Calls for Increasing US Presence in Iraq to 10K Troops Lindsey Graham said he would increase the U.S. military presence in Iraq to about 10,000 troops if elected to the office.
Iraqi Army -- And US -- Go Back to Conventional War Basics The U.S. is retraining the Iraqi army in conventional warfare fundamentals, even as the U.S. Army re-focuses on core skills.
French, American Weapons Take Toll on ISIS in Ground Combat The Kurds have been using French-made anti-tank weapons to stop ISIS counterattacks with car and truck bombs.
Pentagon Officials Hail Iraqi Forces Retaking Ramadi from ISIS The recent success of Iraqi forces in retaking Ramadi showed that the U.S. strategy against ISIS is working, Defense...
ISIS Feels Strain in Iraq as Forces Prep to Retake Mosul: US Commander The U.S. commander in Iraq said ISIS is feeling strain from shrinking resources as the Iraqi government gears up to retake...
US Improving Accuracy of Airstrikes, Intel Against ISIS: Dunford As the U.S. likely sends more troops to Iraq, the Joint Chiefs chief said existing efforts, including airstrikes, are...
11 Years After the Battles, Some Say It’s Time for a USS Fallujah More than 120 Americans died in the two battles of Fallujah that took place in the spring and fall of 2004.
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-40-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...
