Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, said the target of the bombing was the intelligence services and their employees. He claimed the bus was filled with employees of the intelligence services and that Taliban insurgents spent the last two months shadowing the intelligence services e...
Four A-29 Super Tucanos arrive at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, Jan. 15, 2016. The aircraft will be added to the Afghan Air ForceÕs inventory in the spring of 2016. Designed to operate in high temperatures and in extremely rugged terrain, the A-29 Super Tucano is a ...
WASHINGTON — Nearly half a year into his job, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is still trying to convince critics that his efforts to improve the department won’t lead to privatizing care and support programs for veterans. In an editorial in USA Today Monday morning, Shulkin ...
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MOSCOW — The Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, a prominent figure in the controversy over Russia's possible involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has ended his assignment in Washington. The Russian Embassy in Washington announced on Twitter that Ki...
In this June 20, 2017 photo, Robert James uses his PTSD service dog in order to calm him down in stressful situations, mainly by blocking out everything and focusing mainly on petting Apollo on the head, in Gillette, Wyo. It wasn’t until 2015 that James began cognitive processing ther...
WASHINGTON — Leading veterans groups are opposing House lawmakers plans to extend the Veterans Affairs Choice program with emergency funding, saying the plan unfairly shifts needed monies away from department programs. But supporters say the move simply keeps the much-needed health ca...
WASHINGTON — Speaking on a panel at the Aspen Security Forum, Gen. Raymond Thomas, the commander of US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), said the U.S. asked the People’s Protection Unit, or YPG, to re-brand because of its alleged linkages to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), an in...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Rogers, the House Strategic Forces Subcommittee chairman and Congress’s chief advocate for a new branch of the military focused on space, issued a dire warning to fellow lawmakers. The United States faces very real threats from Russia and China, he said, and “wa...
New Tricare mental health benefits, including expanded treatment options for opioid and other substance-use issues, went live July 13, according to Kevin Dwyer, spokesman for the Defense Health Agency. Benefits now in effect include: Emergency and nonemergency inpatient hospitalizatio...
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis clarified on Friday that while the Defense Department now has authority to set troop numbers for Afghanistan, President Donald Trump is still setting the strategy that will drive those numbers. “What he delegated was a tactical decision abo...
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he assumes Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and guiding the terror group in some capacity. “I think Baghdadi’s alive,” Mattis told reporters Friday at the Pentagon. Mattis declined to say why he thinks Baghda...
WASHINGTON — An errant U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan's Helmand province has killed local forces aligned with the Afghan government, according to U.S. officials in Kabul. There may be at least nine fatalities and the count could go higher, according to Navy Capt. William Salvin, a spok...
BEIRUT — The Syrian army and members of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group launched a major ground offensive on Friday aimed at ending the yearslong presence of hundreds of militants in a border area between the two countries. The offensive was widely expected after negotiations with ...
WASHINGTON — Survivors of the USS Arizona were greeted with cheers and applause by U.S. service members and Defense Department staff as they visited the Pentagon early Friday morning. The three survivors, Mr. Lauren Bruner, a fire controlman on the ship, Mr. Don. Stratton, a seaman fi...
The UFC’s heavyweight gatekeeper — fittingly, a former National Guardsman — returns to his post Saturday night. Tim Johnson, a onetime sergeant in the Minnesota National Guard, will battle Junior Albini (13-2) in the Brazilian’s UFC debut at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, New York. I...
ASPEN, Colo. — The U.S. is seeking a political resolution to the crisis in Syria and won't insist on Syrian President Bashar Assad's immediate ouster, President Donald Trump's homeland and counterterrorism adviser said Thursday. "I don't think it's important for us to say Assad must g...
ASPEN, Colo. — CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Thursday that Russia has no plans to leave Syria and will continue to try to meddle in U.S. affairs to "stick it to America." He reiterated his belief that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and described the U.S.-Russia re...
Starting later this year, all honorably discharged veterans, no matter their branch of service, will be eligible to shop tax-free online at the Army & Air Force Exchange Service with the same discounts they enjoyed on base while in the military. It's the latest way in which the organi...
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress said they were deeply concerned following reports that the U.S. is planning to abandon a covert operation to train and equip Syria moderate rebels. The Defense Department’s program, which had a shaky start in 2015 after almost all of the original train...
WASHINGTON — Senate leaders are introducing their own GI Bill expansion legislation today, hinting at an easy political path for the once controversial measure. The legislation was introduced Thursday morning by Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and ra...
AIN ISSA, Syria — Some 250 residents of Syria's Raqqa province Thursday became the latest batch to graduate from a brief U.S. training course, part of an internal security force to hold and secure areas as they are captured from Islamic State group militants. The graduation ceremony i...
WASHINGTON — Afghan pilots will begin training on U.S. UH-60 A model Black Hawk helicopters sometime in early October. The Black Hawk training aircraft are expected to arrive in Afghanistan sometime shortly after October 1, and training will start soon after that, Capt. William Salvin...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to appoint a pair of veterans to lead the Pentagon’s personnel and readiness office, the latest in a recent flurry of defense nominations. Trump has nominated Robert Wilkie to serve as undersecretary of defense for perso...
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The Manchester VA Medical Center, under investigation after reports of substandard treatment and conditions, is now dealing with flooding and severe water damage. The hospital says a mechanical pipe failure early Wednesday caused flooding on a number of floors. Heal...
The uneasy dynamic between the president and top aides has been exacerbated by the revelation this week of an extended dinner conversation between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the recent summit in Germany. The previously undisclosed conversation, which occurred a few ...
It pays to be from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' home state, at least that seems to be at least one of the lessons for a student from Washington's Mercer Island High School. In May, the world saw Mattis' private cellphone number in a Washington Post photo that inadvertently showed Pre...
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump will visit the Pentagon Thursday to get briefed on the military’s global deployments and discuss potential plans to increase those commitments in Afghanistan and against the Islamic State, defense officials said. No additional troop level decisions ...
Turkey’s state-run news outlet, the Anadolu Agency, on Tuesday published detailed information on the location of U.S. bases in northern Syria. The base locations that were disclosed are on the front lines of the U.S.-led effort to take down the Islamic State stronghold and de facto ca...
JOHANNESBURG — When President Donald Trump left his chair at this month's G20 summit while Africa was discussed and had daughter Ivanka sit in for him, critics blasted it as a breach of diplomatic protocol. But it also drew attention to the growing concern that when it comes to the co...
