Richard Sisk
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 - 06:28
French-made anti-tank weapons supplied to the Kurds and U.S. versions given to the Iraqi Security Forces have been blunting a main method of attack by the Islamic State, according to Kurdish and U.S. Central Command officials.
Friday, November 6, 2015 - 06:27
A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft operating out of Incirlik airbase in Turkey provided "devastating" close air support for U.S.-backed Syrian-Arab fighters in taking a town in northwestern Syria from the Islamic State, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 06:17
U.S. advisers have begun training the Iraqi Security Forces in the use of line charges to clear obstacles in the long-stalled effort to retake Ramadi in Anbar province from the Islamic State, the military said Tuesday.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 07:15
U.S. military officials are pushing back against charges that the air war against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria has been ineffective and amounts more to a "drizzle."
Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 06:39
President Obama’s Camp David summit with the Gulf Arab states on Thursday will seek to boost arms sales to the Gulf neighbors but the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been taken off their wish list.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 - 06:59
President Obama pledged Tuesday to give Iraq what it needs to defeat ISIS but stopped short of promising the delivery of high-end weaponry such as Apache attack helicopters and armed drones.
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 05:37
The U.S. was still adjusting the number of troops that will be committed to the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq where their ground combat roles have ended, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 06:13
The Defense Department plans to bolster the Iraqi National Security Forces for the fight against ISIS with MRAPs, the heavily-armored vehicles that Defense Secretary-designate Ashton Carter steered through a rapid acquisition process to counter roadside bombs.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:33
The new Army commander in Europe plans to bolster the U.S. armored presence in Poland and the Baltic states and keep rotations of U.S. troops there through next year and possibly beyond to counter Russia.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 11:10
The U.S. commander of NATO said Monday that he had renewed alliance warnings to France against going ahead with the $1.5 billion sale of two Mistral-class helicopter assault ships to Russia.