Conflict
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 07:30
The United States is shifting more attack and surveillance aircraft from Afghanistan to the air war against the Islamic State, deepening American involvement in the conflict and presenting new challenges for the military planners who work here in central South Carolina, far from the targets they will pick for those aircraft.
A dozen A-10 ground-attack planes have recently moved from Afghanistan to Kuwait, where they are to start flying missions supporting Iraqi ground troops as early as this week, military officials said. About half a dozen missile-firing Reaper drones will also be redeployed from Afghanistan in the next several weeks.
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 06:31
In a concerted effort to avoid combat, U.S. advisers in Iraq are pioneering new techniques for calling in airstrikes against Islamic State militants.
The procedures allow U.S. pilots to bomb targets without the need for U.S. advisers on the ground to work alongside Iraqi forces.
Monday, December 1, 2014 - 05:29
Christian group which carried out reprisal attacks against Muslim civilians says it will become a political movement.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 07:01
The West has criticized an agreement between Russia and Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 06:55
NATO's top military commander said during a visit to Kiev on Wednesday that Russian forces were still operating in eastern Ukraine, providing the "backbone" to separatist rebels fighting government forces.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 07:11
Three Armenian helicopter crewmen who were killed when their military aircraft was shot down on November 12 by Azerbaijani forces have been buried with full military honors.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 06:36
It's been two months since Congress authorized a train-and-equip mission to help Syrian rebels fight ISIS—but the mission is unlikely to happen until spring of next year.
In conjunction with air strikes, the American mission to train and equip the Syrian moderate opposition is a central part of the Obama administration's strategy to counter ISIS. Yet this strategy and its execution are deeply flawed, say Congressional lawmakers focused on national security issues—which raises questions about whether the planned training of some 5,000 fighters will ever happen.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 05:05
Talks between the Sudanese government and two rebels groups from the Darfur region began here in the Ethiopian capital on Sunday.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 05:03
Approximately 70 to 100 people were slaughtered in Beni, the North Kivu provnce in the DRC last week by suspected Ugandan rebels.
Friday, November 21, 2014 - 08:55
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met to discuss strengthening bilateral ties. President Barack Obama unveiled his plan to use his executive authority to protect millions of undocumented migrants residing in the United States from deportation. Former rebels turned soldiers began looting a police station while protesting in the Ivory Coast. And Deputy National Security Advisor Tony Blinken stated that the White House is considering providing lethal arms to Ukraine. Click the link below to read more of this week's top security assistance news.