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U.S. and coalition special forces train Shiite militia recruits this month at a facility about 55 miles south of Mosul.

The United States is helping train Iraqi militias historically tied to Iran

August 21, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

In a significant break with past policy, U.S.-led forces in Iraq have started arming and training hundreds of fighters belonging to Shiite militias historically known for having ties to Iran....

Chief Steward James H. Brown on board Air Force One in the Nixon era.

‘Cancel order!’ Trump tweets Air Force One deal ‘out of control’; Boeing says it’ll deliver ‘best value’

August 21, 2019 at 9:13 p.m.

President-elect Donald Trump took aim at Air Force One on Tuesday, criticizing the cost of the iconic 747 jumbo jet that has served as the president's flying White House and...

Syrians carry a stretcher as they evacuate victims from the rubble of a collapsed building after a reported U.S. airstrike in northern Syria on July 19.

Even with the most high-tech targeting, U.S. airstrikes are still killing civilians in Syria

August 21, 2019 at 9:10 p.m.

The sun had yet to rise over the northern Syrian village of Al Tokhar on July 19 when a U.S. airstrike obliterated much of the town, leveling adobe buildings and...

Captured battlefield cellphones, computers help U.S. target and kill Islamic State’s leaders

August 21, 2019 at 8:42 p.m.

U .S. military officers watched grainy video feeds at a small operations center in Baghdad on Tuesday as Predator drones tracked and killed three reputed Islamic State leaders — one...

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry speaks about the situation in Syria during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday.

Kerry lashes out at Russia, calls for grounding of all aircraft over humanitarian routes in Syria

August 21, 2019 at 8:13 p.m.

Amid a fresh round of bloodletting in Syria, Secretary of State John F. Kerry called Wednesday for the grounding of all aircraft in key opposition-held areas of the country in...

Yemeni engineer Faisal bin Ali Jaber, whose brother-in-law and nephew were killed in a 2012 drone strike, speaks at a news conference in November 2013 in Washington.

Veterans who worked in U.S. drone program support legal fight by Yemeni relative of drone victims

August 21, 2019 at 8:02 p.m.

Three military veterans once involved in the U.S. drone program have thrown their support behind a Yemeni man's legal fight to obtain details about why his family members were killed...

Turkish Army tanks drive to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus.

U.S. intelligence says Islamic State is weakening after series of defeats

August 21, 2019 at 7:52 p.m.

The Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies now view Islamic State as a shrinking and increasingly demoralized military force, a sharp shift from the seemingly invincible extremist army that declared an...

How a stockpile of America’s nuclear weapons got tangled up in a Middle East crisis

August 21, 2019 at 7:21 p.m.

A little more than 100 miles from the territory held by the violent extremist group Islamic State, there is a little piece of Americana. It has an eight-lane swimming pool,...

GOP chairman says ‘people just don’t care’ about misogyny allegations against Donald Trump

August 21, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Donald Trump would have to answer for allegations about repeatedly disrespecting women but deflected concerns that it posed a major challenge for his...

Epic L.A. car chase led by man trained to drive by U.S. military

June 24, 2019 at 5:41 a.m.

A suspected burglar and getaway driver who mesmerized Los Angeles on Thursday in an epic, televised car chase was a trained tactical vehicle driver for the U.S. Marine Corps before...

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