A suicide blast Saturday morning killed four Americans and injured 17 more at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Two of the killed were US troops, and two more were contractors, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a statement. Sixteen of the injured...
The White House on Nov. 10 called for an increase in Fiscal 2017 defense funding for military operations against ISIS and to maintain about 8,400 troops in Afghanistan. The amendments to the Fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act request call...
Iraqi and US officials are planning for the next five years of security in that country, confident in the progress made against ISIS, the top uniformed officer said during a visit to Baghdad. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of...
Retired Air Force Gen. Seth McKee was awarded France’s highest military decoration on Nov. 5. McKee, the oldest living US four star general at 100 years old and a former commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, received the...
Iraqi police involved in ?the approach to Mosul have been accused of torture and extrajudicial killings, an accusation the Pentagon is expecting Iraqi officials to investigate. On Nov. 10, Amnesty International released a report saying fighters in Iraqi Federal Police...
US-led coalition aircraft are stepping up their strikes against ISIS in Raqqa, Syria, as American troops on the ground provide intelligence and more targets. On Nov. 9, US aircraft conducted more than a dozen strikes, dropping 74 munitions near Raqqa,...
International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors found Iran violated a provision of the US-brokered nuclear deal by slightly exceeding the amount of heavy water it can stockpile. During a Nov. 9 press briefing, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Iran exceeded...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte struck a newly conciliatory tone toward the United States in a speech delivered to a Filipino audience Nov. 9 during a visit to Malaysia. The apparent cause of his shift was the election of Donald Trump...
The Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold AFB, Tenn., is set to take administrative command over a number of Air Force Test Center capabilities in a realignment that was approved by the Air Force on Nov. 9. The Hypersonic Combined...
?An entry in the Nov. 10 Daily Report omitted the name of one veteran recently elected to Congress. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Don Bacon was elected to represent Nebraska’s second district. We have updated our original entry.