US expands air base in northern Syria for use in battle for Raqqa
The Air Force has expanded an air base in northern Syria to assist in the fight to retake the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State, U.S. Central Command said.
The Air Force has expanded an air base in northern Syria to assist in the fight to retake the city of Raqqa from the Islamic State, U.S. Central Command said.
The Coast Guard's top officer said Monday that his service was "left behind" in an effort by the Trump administration to improve the Armed Forces, and still needs dozens of new ships and thousands more servicemembers.
Yemeni security and tribal officials say two airstrikes suspected to be by the Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels have killed eight people, including two women.
Clara Lewandoske and her "boys" were among the millions of Americans who served in World War I — soldiers, sailors, nurses; white, black and Latino — who were caught up in the cataclysm, which the United States entered 100 years ago on April 6.
He first found the body of his nephew. Then as rescue workers pulled more and more bodies out of the pile of concrete that was once his sister's home in western Mosul, it was too much for Mahmoud Salem Ismail. He collapsed next to the body bags on the ground.
Syrian troops intensified their bombardment of opposition-held areas around Damascus on Monday and besieged a rebel neighborhood northeast of the city, the latest in the government's push to erase battlefield advances made by insurgents in March.
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is using a recent attempt to fire a porn-watching employee to demonstrate why Congress should give him more disciplinary power.
The United States conducted about 20 airstrikes against al-Qaida militants in Yemen in recent days, continuing its increased bombing campaign against the terrorist group that has taken advantage of a civil war to increase its influence in the region.
After nearly a half-century and service under nine presidents, Maj. Gen. Mike Edwards put on his uniform for the last time Friday.
The president who loves generals met Monday with the general-turned-president.
To get President Donald Trump to come around to tougher fuel-economy standards, a corporate titan is calling in the troops and following a battle plan that worked when George W. Bush was president.
Over a 24-hour period in 2014, top U.S. cyber defenders engaged in a pitched battle with Russian hackers who had breached the unclassified State Department computer system and displayed an unprecedented level of aggression that experts warn is likely to be turned against the private sector.
The vaccines unit of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi SA will pay a $19.9 million fine for overcharging the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for two products between 2002 and 2011.
The House, except for impeachment, never has been good in delving into possible scandals of this size. Members who face election every two years are too vulnerable to partisan influence.
Will Trump’s golf hurt the country? No. Will it help Trump’s adversaries? If they know an opportunity when they see one.
A German court handed lengthy prison sentences Monday to four Islamic extremists over plots to bomb a train station and kill a far-right politician.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has begun a visit to Jordan where she is to announce plans to send more British military trainers to help the kingdom's air force in the fight against Islamic State group extremists.
A 102-year-old World War II veteran who served with Canadian and American forces and survived captivity by the Nazis has received his high school diploma and overdue medals.
Violence is mounting in three neighboring provinces in southern Congo, where more than 400 civilians have been killed since August.
Rodrigo Duterte said Monday that he would use newly acquired attack aircraft and other weapons against the guerrillas if the talks go nowhere.
A large explosion tore apart a train as it traveled between two central St. Petersburg metro stations Monday, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 20, Russia's federal anti-terrorism authority said.
State police say 30-year-old Brandon McPherson was arrested on an additional count of second-degree conspiracy after investigators say a co-conspirator admitted to agreeing with him to kill someone.
Russia strongly opposes NATO's expansion in the Balkans. Montenegro accuses Moscow of plotting an election day coup in October to try to keep the country out of the alliance.
The men who signed it were all wounded in some way, and they were all a part of the Army's 34th Infantry, 24th Division. Anthony estimates they signed it in about 1944, just a year before the war ended.
Although the home-made bomb was discovered and defused before it detonated, the court said the German convert to Islam deserved a life sentence due to the seriousness of the crime.
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