(ZHE) Just three days after Turkish warplanes killed at least 20 US-backed Kurdish fighters along the Turkey-Syria border, as well as several Kurdish peshmerga troops on Mount Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, footage posted by Syrian activists showed the US has deployed troops and APCs in the contested region, in a move that could potentially drag the US in a conflict where
(ANTIWAR) Two US soldiers were killed overnight and a third was wounded in fighting against ISIS forces in the Achin District of Nangarhar Province. This is the same area in which the US earlier this month launched the MOAB “Mother of All Bombs” strike.
The situation is looking complicated.
(ANTIWAR) Pentagon officials are confirming that another round of US ground troops has been deployed to Iraq this week, adding to an already substantial number of combat troops in a war that the Obama Administration has repeatedly promised would be “no boots on the ground.”
(ANTIWAR) While the Obama Administration has presented its (already-stalled) drawdown in Afghanistan as “ending” the war and bringing the number of US forces down in the country to very small levels, they rarely discuss the substantial number of American defense contractors still in the country.
(ANTIWAR) Adding to the ever-growing number of US ground troops in the “no boots on the ground” war in Iraq, Army officials announced yet another significant deployment from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 101st Airborne Division, from which some 400 troops will be sent to Qayara, just south of Mosul.
(ANTIWAR) Speaking at an international conference aimed at fundraising for the humanitarian costs of the war, Secretary of State John Kerry once again talked up how great the ISIS war is going, claiming “momentum has shifted” and presenting victory as virtually inevitable, but only a “short-term success.”
Israel Aerospace Industry executive tells Israeli media army wants its "Rotem" drone, which soldiers can drop on targets via tablet app.
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Revelation of secret Iraq base belies claim of ‘no boots on the ground’.
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Paris also implements first curfew over the city since the days of Hitler.
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