CENTCOM: More US-trained fighters in Syria
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Just days after the head of U.S. Central Command testified that only a handful of U.S.-trained Syrian fighters remained in the fight against the Islamic State, a CENTCOM spokesman said Friday that additional New Syrian Forces have joined them on the battlefield.
President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Eric Fanning to be the next secretary of the Army, along with new undersecretaries for the Navy and Air Force.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is nominating longtime Pentagon official Eric Fanning to be the Army's new secretary. If confirmed, Fanning would be the nation's first openly gay leader of a military service.
Obama says Fanning brings years of experience and leadership to the role. He says in a ...
Statement by the President on the Nomination of Eric Fanning as Secretary of the Army: “Eric brings many years of proven experience and exceptional leadership to this new role.
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Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks with Russian counterpart about military action in Syria
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The Obama administration is considering scrapping its effort to create a large-scale Syrian force to fight Islamic State as it searches for alternatives to prevent the American-led effort from collapsing, officials said.
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U. S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter spoke to his Russian counterpart about Moscow’s deepening role in Syria, ending a long pause in high-level military ties between the two countries.
Japan’s parliament gave final approval to legislation expanding the overseas role of the country’s military, a long-sought goal of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that came despite an outcry from demonstrators.
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The U.S. government on Friday for the first time in at least a decade honored a request from China to hand over a person Beijing considers a suspected criminal.
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However, senior Russian officials have repeatedly told counterparts in the Arab world that their stance stems largely from the US-led intervention in Libya in 2011, which Moscow saw as a trick and a threat to its influence. “They are very much disrespectful of the regime as a partner and an ally,” said Harling. “But they completely share its view of the war's cause and structure. They are anti-Islamist, anti-west and anti-democratic. “They have been fighting a ... More news...
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Kremlin gives clearest indications to date that troop deployments in Syria to help regime fight Islamic State jihadists may be imminent.
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