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USS Truman conducted largest airstrike in Navy history, official says
Sixteen aircraft dropped 124,000 pounds of ordnance in less than two minutes during a Feb. 1 airstrike in Somalia, a defense official told Military Times.
By Riley Ceder
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
Islamic State in Afghanistan aims to attack US, general says
The Islamic State group in Afghanistan is a "very worrisome" threat to the United States, and U.S. counterterrorism efforts have yet to shrink its extremist ambitions, a senior American general said Wednesday.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
ISIS expands in Afghanistan, threatening West
Nearly two decades after the U.S.-led invasion, the extremist group is seen as an even greater threat than the Taliban because of its increasingly sophisticated military capabilities and its strategy of targeting civilians, both in Afghanistan and abroad
Shanahan closes review of Niger ambush that killed four US soldiers, seeks no further punishments
“I think the bigger point for me is the families don’t feel like they’ve received a consistent story of what happened,” one lawmaker said.
By Kyle Rempfer
Syrian Kurds send 8 American women, children captured with ISIS back to the US
Kurdish authorities in northern Syria have transferred eight U.S. women and children who were captured with the Islamic State group back to America, Kurdish officials said Wednesday.
US training and security assistance may be empowering Egyptian war crimes, says human rights group
Egypt has used U.S. military aid to purchase major U.S. defense systems, such as the F-16 fighter aircraft, the M1A1 Abrams battle tank, and the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and Humvees, some of which have seen combat on the Sinai Peninsula.
By Kyle Rempfer
SEAL defense claims prosecution withheld information from judge about email spying
"It appears the prosecutors may have lied to the judge, and that he didn’t authorize it and didn’t know what they were really doing."
By J.D. Simkins
Explosive-sniffing dogs trade ruff life for cushy retirement back home
“They’re out there saving lives every single day. They’ve done this their whole lives, and it’s their time to retire and our time to give back to them.”
By Joshua Axelrod
Secret tracking device found in Navy email to Navy Times amid leak investigation raises legal, ethical questions
It appears that the Navy sought to secretly extract data from the Navy Times computer network.
By Howard Altman