Why the Next Islamic State 'Territorial Caliphate' Will Be in Africa "The expulsion of ISIS from its "territorial caliphate" in Iraq and Syria did not end its ambition of establishing a...
Pentagon Eyes New Bombs for War With China, Not ISIS Despite the service shifting more resources toward the ARRW program last year, the missile failed its first flight test a few...
Cryptic SpecOps Tweet Was Accidental Search Term, Not a Hack as Originally Claimed U.S. Special Operations Command Central admitted that a Twitter message Saturday was a mistakenly posted search term, not a...
Lawmakers Want to Know How US Will Keep Up Terror Fight After Afghanistan Pullout As the U.S. prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan, lawmakers and others are trying to figure out how to keep it from becoming...
US Will Still Support ISIS Fight Despite Drawdowns from Iraq, Afghanistan, General Says U.S. forces are still needed in the region to deter Iran and contain the Islamic State.
A Year After al-Baghdadi's Death, ISIS Is Alive -- and Growing It appears that the Islamic State continues to be well-funded and is not only maintaining, but even expanding, operations.
Bradley Fighting Vehicles Sent to Protect US Troops in Syria The nature of the new threat posed by ISIS that triggered this U.S. response was not described.
Soldier Awarded Medal of Honor on Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks That Inspired Him to Fight Sgt. Maj. Thomas "Patrick" Payne is the first living member of Delta Force to receive the nation's highest award for valor.
COVID-19 Has Hit Syria's Biggest ISIS Prison Camp, US General Says The U.S. has pressed for repatriation of the Al Hol inmates to their home countries to face justice.
ISIS Took Advantage of COVID-19 Restrictions to Ramp Up Attack in Iraq, Report Finds There were 405 ISIS attacks during the quarter in Iraq, with major spikes during Ramadan, according to data analysis.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...