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Before a Secret Raid on an ISIS Leader's Mountain Cave Complex, US Forces Ran the Mission at a Special Recreation of the Target Area It's a similar technique to the one used before the 2011 raid that brought down Osama bin Laden.
A Secretive US Special-Operations Base in Syria Is Taking Fire from a Shadowy Middle East War A remote U.S. special-operations base in the Syrian desert is caught in a shadow war between military powers in the Middle...
Couple Pleads Guilty to Supporting ISIS in the US, Discussed Attacking Troops Over the course of the investigation, James Bradley told undercover law enforcement officers that he planned to execute an...
ISIS Fighter Behind Brutal Beheading of Journalist and Murder of Veteran Sentenced to Life in Prison On the eighth anniversary of the brutal beheading of journalist James Foley, a federal judge in Virginia sentenced one of the...
Billions Spent on Overseas Counterterrorism Would Be Better Spent by Involving Ex-Terrorists My research shows that international aid does not stop terrorists from carrying out violent acts.
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Another Helicopter Went Down on a US Special-Ops Raid. Here's How Elite Aviators Prepare for that Worst-Case Scenario. Last week, Delta Force conducted a counterterrorism operation in northwestern Syria that killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al...
ISIS Leader Detonated Suicide Bomb Killing Family as Troops Closed In, US Military Says U.S. troops had surrounded the building and were calling on the ISIS leader and civilians inside to surrender, according to...
Navy Orders Forcewide Housing Inspections After Secretary 'Appalled' by Guam Barracks Conditions Navy Secretary Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was "appalled" after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks...
Air Force Wants Private Company to Take Over its On-Base Hotels The Department of the Air Force, which includes the Space Force, will start accepting requests for proposals this summer...
2 Elite Marine Corps Pilots Reveal What It's Like to Fly a F-35B Fighter Jet In his role as a pilot with the Marine Corps air demonstration team, Maj. Craig Norris flew the F-35B Lightning II at...
Ken Burns Reveals Why He Chose to Tell the Story of 'The American Revolution' Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because...
Veterans’ Protests Planned for D-Day Latest in Nearly 250 Years of Fighting for Their Benefits Veterans were not always politically popular, nor were they treated well by the federal government.
![Former leader of Al Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiah Imron Baihaqi prays at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia.](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-05/AP%20Indonesia%20Radicals%20Reformed%201800x1200.jpg?itok=BMSiz7mo "In this June 2, 2016 photo, former leader of Al Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiah Imron Baihaqi, center, who is also known by his militant name "Abu Tholut," prays at a mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia has been struggling in its efforts to de-radicalize militants in prison, partly because the Islamic State group inspires them to hold to extremism. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)")
