U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a 534-billion-dollar defense budget package for fiscal year 2016, an increase of 38.2 billion dollars over the amount approved by Congress this year, and 11 billion dollars over the spending caps put in place by sequestration.
U.S. and partner-nation military forces have conducted a total of 33 airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria and Iraq over the past two days, the U. S. Defense Department said Sunday.
U.S. and partner-nation military forces have conducted a total of 19 airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria and Iraq in a 24-hour period, the U.S. Defense Department said on Wednesday.
A total of 56 people were killed in the clashes between security forces and the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq and 9 others killed in bomb attacks targeting restaurants in the capital Baghdad on Sunday, security sources said.
U.S. and partner-nation military forces have conducted a total of 23 airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria and Iraq over the past two days, the U.S. Defense Department said on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama acknowledged on Sunday that Afghanistan is still a "dangerous place" as U.S.-led coalition forces formally ended their 13-year- long combat mission in the Asian country.
President Xi Jinping has asked the armed forces to clear up the "bad influence" left by the graft case of Xu Caihou, a former senior commander.
Some 22 Taliban militants have been killed and 28 wounded as the Afghan security forces pressed ahead with offensives in restive provinces, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
U.S., partner-nation military forces continued to attack Islamic State (IS) forces over the past three days using fighter and bomber aircraft to conduct 14 airstrikes, U.S. Central Command said on Wednesday.
Iraqi security forces on Sunday broke the Islamic State (IS) group's months-long siege of the country's largest oil refinery in Salahudin province, a provincial security source said.
The United States top military officer said during an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan on Saturday that the momentum in the battle with Islamic State (IS) militant group was "starting to turn", but predicted the campaign against the group would take several years.
Britain is planning to offer more military training and advisory personnel to Iraq to help local forces combat extremist Islamic State (IS) militant group, British Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Wednesday.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group executed 75 tribesmen in western Iraq on Thursday, a day after they executed 30 tribesmen from the same allied Sunni tribe in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said.
The Pentagon chief on Thursday praised the progress made against the Islamic State (IS) as U.S.-led coalition continues to implement a comprehensive strategy aimed at destroying the militant group.
Having served 13 years fighting militants in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, British troops departed for home on Sunday, leaving Afghan national forces to take over the security responsibility alone in the former Taliban stronghold.
Having served 13 years fighting militants in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, British troops departed for home on Sunday, leaving Afghan national forces to take over the security responsibility alone in the former Taliban stronghold.
The security situation in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in general and in North Sinai is "dangerous" but is still "under control" despite the ongoing anti-security terrorist attacks in the region, said Egyptian experts.
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