From Jordan base, UAE resumes airstrikes on Islamic State
By ADAM SCHRECK United Arab Emirates fighter planes roared out of an air base in Jordan on Tuesday to pound Islamic State militant positions, marking a return to combat operations…
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Iraqi Shiites pushing for al-Maliki’s removal
By HAMZA HENDAWI FILE – In this Friday, March 26, 2010, file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s Vice President Khudeir al-Khuzaie…
AUDIT: MORE THAN 57,000 AWAIT FIRST VA APPOINTMENT
By MATTHEW DALY FILE This April 28, 2014 file photos shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Veterans Affairs Department says more than 57,000 patients are still waiting…
HUNDREDS RALLY AGAINST OKINAWA BASE MOVE PLAN
By KOJI UEDA In this video image taken from AP video, protesters march against the relocation plan of the US base in Naha, OKinawa prefecture, Feb. 11, 2014. Several hundred…
ACTIVISTS: SYRIAN REBELS FREE HUNDREDS FROM PRISON
Associated Press In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp wait to leave the camp, on the southern edge…
THE KEY FINDINGS ON NUCLEAR FORCE TROUBLES
By The Associated Press FILE – In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel takes questions as he briefs reporters at the Pentagon in Washington. In taking…
PENTAGON CHIEF IN RARE VISIT TO NUKE MISSILE BASE
By ROBERT BURNSU.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel talks with retired Army Col. Rebecca Hooper, program manager for the Center for the Intrepid, after Hagel spoke to soldiers, veterans and…
PUTIN VOWS TO BEEF UP ARCTIC MILITARY PRESENCE
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Col. Gen. Valery Gerasimov during a meeting with the…