ISIS seizes big Russian-Syrian T-4 air base
Islamic State forces pushed their assault forward to retake the central Syrian town of Palmyra Monday, Dec. 12. By
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Ashton Carter
The Operation to Retake Raqqa from ISIS Is Still Far off
A Raqqa operation to drive the Islamic State from its Syrian stronghold is very much on US Defense Secretary Ashton
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Rockets on Golan, Pentagon flouts Obama, no truce
The Pentagon and US army are not following the orders of their Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama in the execution of the
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Erdogan and Putin Shut US out of Role in N. Syria
US President Barack Obama has made a date to meet with Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sept. 4 during the
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US Tigris Bridge Plan for Mosul Offensive Sparks Baghdad-Kurdish Tug-o’-War
On a surprise visit to Baghdad on July 11, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced a more than 10 percent
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Assad Has Finally Won. Washington Is Talking to Him
By making himself an immovable object, stuck hard in the way of the combined US-Russian effort to come to grips
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Local Setbacks Slow US-Russian Momentum against ISIS in Iraq, Syria
It is no longer doubted that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is falling back in Iraq and
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Why the Collective Gasp of “Surprise” over Putin’s Bombshell?
How credible is the claim that the US was taken by surprise by President Vladimir Putin’s March 13 order to
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The US Will Field More than 10,000 Troops in Iraq by February
During a visit this week with the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said
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Ashton Carter Reconfigures US Intelligence for Cyber War on ISIS
The ultimate overseer of US security, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, has undertaken to personally design and chart America’s cyber war
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