A top Pentagon official suggested the US could work with the Taliban to fight...
Summary List PlacementGen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not rule out the possibility of the US working with the Taliban in the fight against ISIS-K, the Islamic State...
View ArticleA lawsuit and an arms deal highlight Mexico's messy relationship with US guns
Summary List PlacementCiudad Juarez, MEXICO - Mexico's government recently sued some of the biggest US gunmakers and distributors, in an unprecedented effort to stop the flow of illegal firearms from...
View Article'9/11 was a cancel culture': 'Reign of Terror' author Spencer Ackerman talks...
Summary List PlacementSpencer Ackerman is a national security reporter who most recently was a staff correspondent for The Daily Beast and now has his own Substack called, "Forever Wars." A native New...
View ArticleFacebook helped a group of employees flee Afghanistan alongside 'families who...
Summary List PlacementA group of 175 Afghan citizens, including Facebook employees, fled Taliban rule on a flight to Mexico this Tuesday."In the process of assisting Facebook employees and close...
View ArticleBritish defense secretary suggests US is no longer a superpower after...
Summary List PlacementThe UK's defense secretary in a new interview suggested the US is no longer a superpower because it wasn't willing to stick it out in Afghanistan. "It is obvious that Britain is...
View ArticlePhotos: What it was like to cover the 9/11 attack, the war in Afghanistan,...
Summary List PlacementTwenty years is a long time, long enough to forget what the texture of daily life was like. I think back to that September day in New York, and the six months that came after –...
View ArticleHere's why these US Air Force A-10 attack aircraft rock fearsome shark teeth...
Summary List PlacementThere are the ordinary A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, and then there are what one US Air Force squadron commander called "the coolest looking A-10s." Those planes are the...
View Article3 movies that the US Army's elite Green Berets say actually show what their...
Summary List PlacementHollywood is usually quite off the mark when it comes to war and the military, but there are a few films that actually reflect the Army Special Forces experience, according to...
View ArticleAfghan women and girls were forced into marriages in order to escape the...
Summary List PlacementSome Afghan families forced women and girls into marriages at Kabul's airport to secure them safe passage out of the country after the Taliban takeover last month, according to a...
View ArticleUS Special Operations Command has given up on its 'Iron Man suit,' but it's...
Summary List PlacementFor years, the Pentagon has been looking to maintain its competitive edge over its near-peer competitors by outfitting US troops with the best technology out there.The US Special...
View ArticleCalifornia families say they were shot at and beaten by the Taliban while...
Summary List PlacementCalifornia families trying to escape Kabul during the frantic Western evacuation said they were shot at and beaten by the Taliban, the Associated Press reported on Friday.Only...
View Article78 years after a 'forgotten' WWII battle, the US military is 'plussing-up' in...
Summary List PlacementAugust marked the 78th anniversary of the end of the Aleutian Islands campaign, a yearlong battle along a chain of islands stretching from mainland Alaska across the northern...
View ArticleNew York Times report details the chaos that unfolded after Afghans were...
Summary List PlacementMilitary and government officials in Doha, Qatar, experienced a chaotic reception of thousands of Afghan refugees including "rogue" flights and rough conditions, The New York...
View Article5 missing Navy sailors have been declared dead after their helicopter crashed...
Summary List PlacementThe US Navy announced Saturday that five sailors who went missing after their helicopter crashed on August 31 have been declared dead.As of September 4, the US 3rd Fleet's mission...
View ArticleGen. Mark Milley says a civil war in Afghanistan is 'likely' after US troop...
Summary List PlacementGen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that a future civil war in Afghanistan is "likely" after the US troop withdrawal from the country, which could...
View ArticleGOP Rep. McCaul says 6 planes with Americans onboard are stuck at Afghanistan...
Summary List PlacementSix airplanes are stuck at the Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport in northern Afghanistan with Americans on board, unable to take off because they had not received clearance...
View ArticleThe Taliban barricaded and hit Afghan women protesting in Kabul with tear gas...
Summary List PlacementAfghan women protesting the Taliban on Saturday say they were tear-gassed and beaten on the streets of Kabul. Scores of women demonstrated outside the Defense Ministry building in...
View ArticleThe Taliban say they have taken control of the last Afghan province rejecting...
Summary List PlacementThe Taliban say they have seized control of the last province in Afghanistan that was holding out against their rule, though local resistance fighters said this wasn't...
View ArticleAs many as 48,000 civilians have been killed by US airstrikes since 9/11:...
Summary List PlacementIn the 20 years since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the United States has bombed more than a half-dozen nations as part of its global war on terror, overthrowing Saddam...
View ArticleTaliban fighters used US-made weapons and handcuffs to fight in the last...
Summary List PlacementTaliban fighters used weapons and handcuffs made in the US while fighting in the last Afghan province resisting their rule, The Times of London's Anthony Loyd reported.The Taliban...
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