Paul McLeary
Friday, January 29, 2016 - 06:52
American involvement in the long Afghan war was supposed to come to a close by the end of the year, but an array of top Pentagon officials spent Thursday making clear that U.S. troops will be fighting — and potentially dying — there for years to come.
Monday, January 4, 2016 - 08:42
With the Islamic State dominating headlines in 2015, Afghanistan went back to being America’s forgotten war. That made it easier to ignore the fact that the Taliban now control more territory than at any time since 2001.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 06:09
The unexploded cluster bombs are an increasingly common sight in Yemen’s farms and small villages, a visible reminder of Saudi Arabia’s continuing air war there – and of Washington’s large but little-known role in arming and fueling Riyadh’s warplanes.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - 05:54
After a roadside bomb killed a fighter from one of the Kurdish militias battling the Islamic State this summer, and another was shot and wounded, residents of the town of Hammam al-Turkman were presented with a stark choice.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - 06:30
On Capitol Hill, it’s been called “a joke,” a “total failure,” and “a bigger disaster than I could have ever imagined.” And now we have another name for it: dead.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 - 06:31
The United States has suspended a critical piece of the troubled program to train and equip Syrian fighters to battle the Islamic State, putting the brakes on bringing the next batch of vetted recruits out of Syria for training.
Monday, July 27, 2015 - 06:15
U.S. warplanes flying over East Africa have bombarded al-Shabab targets in the past week with a series of strikes in Somalia, shifting from pinprick attacks that strictly focus on the jihadis’ leaders, U.S. officials said Friday.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 - 07:12
The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy are arriving just as two Iranian warships have taken up position in the Gulf of Aden, heightening tensions between the two rivals just as fighting between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Yemeni forces supported by Saudi Arabia and other American allies intensifies.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 06:14
US Special Operations forces in Africa are preparing for one of their biggest exercises of the year, a multinational event that spans several West African countries and serves as one of the premiere partnership events for US forces in Africa.
Thursday, January 22, 2015 - 06:39
American soldiers will deploy to Ukraine this spring to begin training four companies of the Ukrainian National Guard.