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US shifts over $100M in military aid from Israel, Egypt to Lebanon

The Biden administration in its final days is trying to bolster a ceasefire agreement that it helped mediate between Israel and Hezbollah.

6 months ago

Iran fires missiles at Israel

The Israeli military says Iran has fired missiles at Israel and is warning Israelis to shelter in place.

9 months ago

White House releases update on global counterterrorism efforts

Libya has been excluded from a list of locations where U.S. military personnel are deployed and equipped for combat as part of counterterrorism operations.

By Cal Pringle

6 years ago

Forces from Egypt and 5 other nations to start ‘Arab Shield’ joint military exercise

Countries that would make up an alliance proposed by the U.S. and dubbed "Arab NATO" plan two weeks of exercises this month.

By Hamza Hendawi

7 years ago

'It changed the way we look at the world’: Top Marine says Beirut bombing, like 9/11, still impacts us today

241 U.S. service members were killed in the October 1983 truck bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.

7 years ago

‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ director discusses unique Navy SEAL influence on new movie

The director of the new "Mission: Impossible" chatted with Military Times about the new film and the advising role his brother, a former Navy SEAL, plays.

By J.D. Simkins

7 years ago

US airstrike blocks ISIS fighters evacuated in deal with Lebanon

Coalition warplanes bombed a bridge and cratered a road to block the movement of ISIS fighters that were being evacuated.

8 years ago

Lebanon's negotiated ISIS evacuation angers many

Buses carrying hundreds of Islamic State militants and their families arrived in eastern Syria on Tuesday following a negotiated evacuation from the Lebanon-Syria border, where the U.S.-backed Lebanese army deployed for the first time in years.

8 years ago

Cease-fires in battle against ISIS on Lebanon-Syria border

Cease-fires took effect Sunday in the border area between Syria and Lebanon, halting separate but simultaneous weeklong offensives against the Islamic State group by the Lebanese army on one side and Hezbollah and Syrian troops on the other.

8 years ago

Syrian officer: Anti-ISIS fight near Lebanon border soon over

The battle against the Islamic State group in an area along the Lebanon-Syria will end within hours, a Syrian army officer said Thursday as the extremists faced news setbacks in the two neighboring countries.

8 years ago

Lebanon starts offensive to clear border of ISIS militants

Lebanon’s U.S.-backed army on Saturday launched its biggest military operation yet against Islamic State militants who in 2014 gained a foothold along the tiny Mediterranean country’s border with Syria.

8 years ago

Lebanon's army prepares to clear border area of ISIS militants

Lebanon’s U.S.-backed military is gearing up for a long-awaited assault to dislodge hundreds of Islamic State militants from a remote corner near Syrian border, seeking to end a years-long threat posed to neighboring towns and villages by the extremists.

8 years ago