WASHINGTON: The U.S. Air Force is predicting it will need to grow sharply over the next decade or so, boosting the number of operational squadrons by nearly a...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. military is increasing spending on a secret research effort to use artificial intelligence to help anticipate the launch of a...
WASHINGTON: A research arm of the U.S. intelligence community just wrapped up a competition to see who could develop the best facial recognition technology....
WASHINGTON: After years of focusing divided Iraq on a shared fight against Daesh (ISIS), the U.S. is now straining to leverage its limited influence to avoid...
AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar: Even as tensions between the United States and Russia fester, there is one surprising place where their military-to-military...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has ordered stepped-up military operations against Daesh (ISIS) and delegated more authority to his generals, but without a...
WASHINGTON: When U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis greeted Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister at the Pentagon last month, the first thing he did was joke about...
WASHINGTON: The United States is considering deepening its role in Yemen’s conflict by more directly aiding its Gulf allies battling Iran-aligned Houthi...
WASHINGTON: The U.S. military said on Friday it plans to forge ahead with building the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea, separating the issue from...
BRUSSELS: U.S. President Donald Trump’s defense secretary warned NATO allies Wednesday that they must honor military spending pledges to ensure the United...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s push to create safe zones in Syria could force him to make some risky decisions about how far to go to protect...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy legacy rests in part on a foundation of unilateral actions that his successor Donald Trump could...
WASHINGTON: A U.S.-backed assault on Raqqa, Daesh’s (ISIS) de facto capital in Syria, is unlikely to pierce the city itself before President Barack Obama...
ANKARA: Turkey and Iraq have reached an agreement in principle that could eventually allow a Turkish role in the campaign to retake Mosul from Daesh (ISIS),...
WASHINGTON: Iran has stepped up weapons transfers to the Houthis, the militia fighting the Saudi-backed government in Yemen, U.S., Western and Iranian...
BAGHDAD: When Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged in December that Iraq would retake Daesh’s (ISIS) de facto capital Mosul by the end of 2016, the target...
BAGHDAD: The death of Daesh’s (ISIS) “minister of war” may disrupt its operations, a senior U.S. military officer said Thursday, and an Iraqi security expert...
WASHINGTON: Russia’s latest military moves in Syria have sharpened divisions within the U.S. administration over whether Russian President Vladimir Putin...
WASHINGTON: The United States Thursday carried out an airstrike in Syria targeting the ISIS militant known as "Jihadi John," who participated in...
BEIRUT/WASHINGTON: U.S. forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in...
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON: Russia’s airstrikes in Syria are in part designed to extract concessions from the West over Ukraine by making Moscow a key player in any...
WASHINGTON: In Syria, U.S.-trained rebels surrender supplies and ammunition to Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents. In Iraq, the battle by American-backed government...
IRBIL: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter called Iraq's Kurdish fighters a model for the kind of force needed to defeat ISIS as he made an unannounced visit...
BAGHDAD: Iraq has for the first time deployed troops trained by the U.S.-led coalition in their campaign to retake the city of Ramadi from ISIS militants,...
TEL AVIV: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said it plainly just before landing in Israel, where officials are fuming over the Iran nuclear deal: "I'm not...