Kerry: Progress with Russia on Syria despite military doubts
By ROBERT BURNS and MATTHEW LEE U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said progress is being made with Russia on a potential military partnership that could strengthen a faltering truce…
Joseph F. Dunford
Q&A: When is a Boot on the Ground not a Boot on the Ground?
By LOLITA C. BALDOR No one disputes that U.S. military forces are fighting in combat in Iraq and Syria — except maybe President Barack Obama and some members of his…
Trump’s GOP Senate critics fact check him on foreign policy
By RICHARD LARDNER The Senate’s leading Republican voices on national security are assembling an indictment of Donald Trump’s worldview by soliciting rebuttals from U.S. military leaders that challenge the accuracy…
US to send 200 more troops, Apache helicopters, to Iraq
By LOLITA C. BALDOR The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send eight Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight…
Pentagon moving to increase US troop numbers in Iraq soon
By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS The Pentagon said Friday it was moving to increase the number of American forces in Iraq and announced that U.S. forces have killed…
New Joint Chiefs chairman looks over war zone in Iraq
By LOLITA C. BALDOR The new top U.S. military officer said Tuesday he sees no prospect right now for Russia to expand its airstrike campaign into Iraq, speaking after briefings…
Joint Chiefs nominee: Russia is top security threat to US
By DEB RIECHMANN President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday that Russia poses the greatest threat to U.S. national security and it would be…
2,558 complaints over Afghan presidential runoff
By RAHIM FAIEZ FILE – In this Sunday, June 15, 2014 file photo, Afghan men, who their fingers have been cut off by Taliban fighters as a punishment for voting,…