Trump Officials Texted War Plans to a Group Chat in a Secure App That Included a Journalist The material in the chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen...
US Military Campaign Against Islamic State Ramps Up The U.S. military has waged a series of large strikes on the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq over the past...
US Military Conducts More Airstrikes to Prevent Islamic State from Making Gains Amid Syria Turmoil While the campaign to quell the Islamic State has been ongoing for years, the military says the recent strikes have been...
Marine Corps F-35C Was Used in Combat for First Time to Strike Houthis, Military Confirms Traveling at speeds of 1,200 mph, the F-35C can carry Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, air-to-air missiles and other...
An AP Photographer Captures a Bomb Falling on a Building in His Childhood Neighborhood When he heard the sound of the projectile overhead, Ammar had his camera already trained on the building set to a high...
Israel Says It Killed a Hezbollah Official Expected to Become the Group's Next Leader Israel said Tuesday that one of its airstrikes outside Beirut earlier in the month killed a Hezbollah official widely...
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...
Is the US Military at War with the Houthis and Iran-Backed Militias? The Answer Is Complicated. The question of war comes amid growing signs that American forces in the region are certainly in combat and approaching a war...
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...
US MQ-9 Predator Drones Waging Most Airstrikes in Syria as Middle East Violence Spikes The drone strikes have continued as the region has been roiled by factional violence in recent months and amid heightened...
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...
