Iraq

U.S. warplanes early Friday morning began targeted airstrikes against Islamist militants in northern Iraq.

Kurdish and Iraqi forces consolidating gains around the recaptured Mosul dam were backed up by U.S. airstrikes.

The State Department is launching a tough and graphic propaganda counteroffensive against the Islamic State.

Ground forces were crucial to the fight against the Islamic State but U.S. troops should not be among them, Gen. Dempsey said...

U.S. troops could move to the front lines if needed to oust ISIS fighters from Iraq, Gen. Martin Dempsey said.

Departing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says U.S. troops may be needed to help Iraq in its fight against Islamic State.

The Obama administration held off Tuesday on supplying Apache attack helicopters and armed drones to the Iraqi Security...

President Obama said Monday that the U.S. had yet to draw up a "complete strategy" for training the Iraqi Security Forces...

Gen. Ray Odierno stepped down Friday as Army chief of staff amid controversy over his remarks on the campaign against ISIS.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter struggled to define combat in describing the death of Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler in Iraq.