WASHINGTON, D.C.—The United States is expected to deploy up to 200 special operation forces to combat the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, including some who will participate in ground combat operations, U.S. defense officials have said.
The “courageous” American soldier who was fatally wounded in a rescue mission in Iraq sacrificed his life to save 70 hostages whose “graves had already been dug” and were about to be “brutally” executed by the “barbaric” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS), U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A married U.S. Army general introduced his same-sex spouse at the Pentagon’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) pride month ceremony on Tuesday that featured Defense Secretary Ashton Carter as the keynote speaker.
In an effort that is being seen as undermining U.S. officials’ assurances that security forces were holding their own, Afghanistan is forming local militias and urging old warlords to provide military assistance in response to a fierce Taliban offensive in the northern part of the country, The New York Times reports.
WASHINGTON, DC — The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the U.S. has begun training about 90 Syrian rebels at an overseas location, adding that pro-Bashar al-Assad regime forces are losing momentum in their fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and other groups.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter told Pentagon reporters that threats of future terrorist attacks on U.S. soil issued after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack in Garland, Texas, should be taken “seriously.”
