US Appeals Court to Reconsider Dismissal of Former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Conviction The Justice Department filed an appeal last week immediately after a U.S. District Court judge spelled out his reasons for...
Moscow Terror Attack Showed Growing Reach of ISIS-K – Could the US Be Next? Considering ISIS-K’s track record and clear aspirations, it would be naïve to dismiss the possibility of an attack on...
Was the War in Afghanistan Worth It? You May Not Like This Veteran's Honest Answer In "What The Taliban Told Me," a veteran Air Force cryptologic linguist responds to the question he gets asked the most about...
The New ISIS: How a Branch of the Terrorist Group Is Becoming a Top Threat The Islamic State's Khorasan Province, also known as ISIS-K, has rapidly become the new boogeyman in the Middle East --...
A String of Assassinations in Afghanistan Points to ISIS Resurgence with US Officials Warning of Possible Attacks on American Interests "Since returning to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have struggled to contain the Islamic State Khorasan province...
Afghan Drug Lords Escaped Justice—But Did It Matter? Former senior Drug Enforcement Administration officials say the Obama administration’s 2013 refusal to indict and prosecute...
Feds Drop Charges Against Afghan Soldier Trying to Claim Asylum in Texas Wasi faced up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 if he pleaded guilty.
Afghan Government Officials Helped Smugglers Sneak Almost $1 Billion in Cash and Gold Out of Afghanistan During Collapse During the final months of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as the Taliban advanced on the capital, the elected...
An Afghan Soldier Fleeing the Taliban Spent Months Reaching the US to Request Asylum. He Was Arrested at the Texas Border. Over the course of the conflict, the U.S. issued special visas to more than 34,000 Afghans who qualified for various reasons.
Afghan Pilot Who Bombed the Taliban Now Flying Recon to Combat US Wildfires With the support of a U.S. veterans group, former Afghan Air Force (AAF) Maj. Samimullah Samim earned U.S. flight...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-40-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...