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Pentagon Weighs Extending USS Bataan and Marine Expeditionary Unit Deployment in Middle East Amid Turmoil The Bataan Amphibious Ready Group has been patrolling the waters in and around the Middle East after deploying in July, and...
The Limits of US Spying in Beirut In the mountains overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean, a new, ultra-modern American embassy is about to open any day now.
Pentagon Reveals More Yemen Strikes Were Carried Out as Progressives in Congress Bristle The U.S. and U.K. strikes on Houthi targets inside Yemen were nearly twice as large as previously disclosed,
US Airstrike in Baghdad Kills Militia Leader Amid Growing American Involvement in Regional Violence The strike in the capital city jarred U.S. relations with Iraq and is the latest military action in the region as conflict...
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5 Purple Hearts Awarded to Injured Troops After Spike in Attacks on Bases in Iraq, Syria U.S. and coalition forces have been attacked 97 times since Oct. 17, a defense official told Military.com.
Israel’s Assassinations Road to Perdition The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel's intelligence services to launch an assassination...
American Forces Must Strike Iran to Protect US Troops "The disproportionate scale of Iranian attacks to American responses lays bare that Iran, not the U.S., holds deterrence in...
4 Soldiers Charged in Alleged Sexual Assault in Barracks at Washington State Base Four soldiers have been charged in an alleged sexual assault that took place in the barracks at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in...
Fire Extinguished After 12-Hour Fight on USS New Orleans Off Okinawa Two sailors received minor injuries in the response, U.S. 7th Fleet officials said.
A Look at Those Trump Has Targeted in Tactic of Revoking Security Clearances The Trump administration's announcement this week that it would rescind the security clearances of 37 current and former...
Major Russian Attack on Western Ukraine Hits an American Factory During US-Led Push for Peace The aerial assault on a part of Ukraine that has largely avoided such focused attacks was one of Russia's biggest this year...
14 with Ties to Washington Deported to ‘Third Countries’ and Guantánamo Bay As the Trump administration lines up ever more countries to accept deported immigrants, a report to be released Thursday...
![Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Jihad Mughniyeh.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-12/AP%20Mideast%20Lebanon%20Hezbollah%20Israel%201200x700.jpg?itok=8ZOGr54T "FILE -- Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a top Hezbollah operative assassinated in 2008 in Damascus and one of the six Hezbollah fighters killed in what the group said was an Israeli airstrike Sunday in the Golan, during his funeral procession, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. Jihad Mughniyeh is the Hezbollah's most prominent figure to die so far in Syria since the Shiite militant group joined the conflict next door in 2012, fighting on Assad's side against the Sunni-led rebellion. Thousands of supporters pumped their fists angrily in the air and chanted, "Death to Israel." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)")
