The U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State will “simultaneously” carry out operations in its de-facto capitals of Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, “as soon as possible,” declared U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is expected to visit Turkey Friday, a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unleashed a scathing critique of the ongoing efforts by the U.S.-led coalition to push the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) out of Iraq, demanding a bigger role for Turkish troops.
An Iraqi lobbyist group, citing the recently enacted law that allows Americans to sue Saudi Arabia over the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. homeland, is reportedly urging its government to ask the United States for compensation over alleged violations by the American military following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration is getting ready to deploy an additional 615 U.S. troops to assist Iraqi forces in retaking Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), bringing the overall number of American service members in the country to 5,262.
The government of Pakistan has failed to take “adequate” action against the al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked Haqqani Network, which poses the “primary threat” to the American military and its allies fighting in Afghanistan, declared a top U.S. commander.
A Russian Su-27 Flanker warplane came within a hair-raising ten feet of a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon plane over the Black Sea on Wednesday, in what U.S. defense officials described as an “unsafe and unprofessional” intercept.
Fighting has erupted in northern Syria between two US allies on opposing sides of a Turkish military offensive — the now Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The USS Fort Worth, prior to breaking down in Singapore earlier this month, had been deemed vulnerable by the Pentagon after being subjected to simulated effects of equipment shutdowns and battle damage.
