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Texas man indicted in killing of Afghan refugee who helped US troops
Thirty-one-year-old Abdul Rahman Waziri was shot in Houston on April 27 during a parking dispute.
Pentagon chief says American troops leaving Syria will conduct anti-ISIS operations from Iraq
While President Donald Trump insists he’s bringing home Americans from “endless wars” in the Mideast, his Pentagon chief says all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American military will continue operations against the Islamic State group.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Loss of US intelligence collection from Syria withdrawal threatens fight against ISIS
“Insurgencies are very much like mushrooms in that regard, they grow and proliferate in darkness,” said a former U.S. defense official.
By Shawn Snow
Civilian casualties at record-high levels in Afghanistan, UN report says
Afghan civilians are dying in record numbers in the country’s increasingly brutal war, noting that more civilians died in July than in any previous one-month period since the U.N. began keeping statistics, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.
Democrats protest transferring $200M in Pentagon counterdrug efforts in Afghanistan to fund border wall
President Donald Trump has quietly transferred more than $200 million from Pentagon counterdrug efforts toward building his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing protests from Democrats who say he is again abusing his powers.
By Andrew Taylor, The Associated Press
Former soldier who was wounded in 2009 search for Bowe Bergdahl in Afghanistan has died
A retired soldier who was shot in the head while searching for Army Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl has died.
US to transfer Islamic State prisoners evacuated from Syria to Iraq
The U.S. will hand over to Iraqi authorities nearly 50 Islamic State members who were transferred from Syria in recent days, two Iraqi intelligence officials said Thursday.
The Navy named its next warship after this city
Designed to replace aging Whidbey Island-class vessels, the Navy wants to buy 13 of these new San Antonio-class variants.
By Navy Times staff
Medal of Honor announced for Green Beret who braved enemy fire to rescue teammates in Afghanistan
The battle took place in Shok Valley, Afghanistan, during a joint U.S.-Afghan raid to kill or capture Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
By Kyle Rempfer
Turkey presses Syrian assault as thousands flee the fighting
Turkey pressed its assault against U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in northern Syria on Thursday for a second day, pounding the region with airstrikes and an artillery bombardment that raised columns of black smoke in a border town and sent panicked civilians scrambling to get out.
US military moves 2 British Islamic State members known as ‘Beatles’ from Syria
Two British militants believed to be part of an Islamic State group that beheaded hostages and was known as "The Beatles" have been moved out of a detention center in Syria and are in American custody, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press