USS Boxer and 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit deploy to Middle East
The Pentagon is deploying thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East.
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart, Reuters
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US F-35 forced to make emergency landing after Iran combat mission
CENTCOM confirmed the pilot made an emergency landing during combat operations. CNN sources told the outlet the aircraft was struck by an Iranian munition.
By J.D. Simkins
Hackers target job-hunting service members, veterans with sham employment website
The site prompted users to download an app containing malicious malware that would allow the attacker to access a plethora of information, according to cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos.
By Diana Stancy
A look at who’s who in northeast Syria as war fears rise
President Donald Trump’s announcement that U.S. troops in Syria would step aside to make way for a Turkish military operation against U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish fighters unleashed a torrent of near unanimous criticism and warnings of immediate and long-term negative consequences.
Iran supports European plan to bolster nuclear deal
President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Iran supports a plan by European countries to bolster a nuclear deal that Tehran reached with the West in 2015 and from which the United States withdrew last year.
Afghanistan to Taliban: Peace or ‘we will continue to fight’
As Afghans await the results of a presidential election roiled by Taliban threats, the government used its platform at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday to tell the insurgents: “Join us in peace, or we will continue to fight.”
Iraq’s removal of counterterrorism chief sparks controversy
The Iraqi prime minister’s removal of a top military commander from his post triggered heated political protests and uncertainty over the weekend, at a time of soaring tensions between the country’s chief security partners in the region, Iran and the United States.
Iran releases seized UK-flagged tanker
The British-flagged Stena Impero left the port of Bandar Abbas on Friday morning, heading to Dubai where its crew would disembark, the vessel's Swedish-based ship-owning company Stena Bulk said.
Troop deployment to Saudi Arabia raises worries of looming conflict
House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith says Trump is inflaming tensions in the region instead of calming them.
A bipartisan report calls for the US to halt its withdrawal from Syria
Absent U.S. assistance in the region, America risks handing the reins of the country’s future to a resurgent ISIS, al-Qaida offshoots and the maligned interests of Iran, Russia and other actors in the region.
By Shawn Snow
200 air and missile defense soldiers set to deploy to Saudi Arabia
One Patriot battery and four Sentinel radar crews will head to Saudi Arabia, while three more Army units are on-call.
Iran president warns of a region ‘on the edge of collapse’
Iran’s president used the world’s stage on Wednesday to warn that security in the Persian Gulf could unravel with a “single blunder” and its fragile peace be guaranteed only by the region’s countries, not through U.S. intervention or Washington’s “merciless economic terrorism.”
By Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press