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Amazing Cockpit Selfies From The Only National Apache Helicopter Demo Team In...
Dutch F-16 and Apache Demo teams trained together ahead of the Gilze-Rijen airshow, hosted in the Netherlands. Here are some shots, once again taken with GoPro cameras, captured by the Royal...
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The Staggering Cost Of The Last Decade's US War In Iraq — In Numbers
There's a huge difference between the very limited expansion of the U.S.'s presence in Iraq that president Barack Obama announced on June 19 and the full-on U.S. invasion of the last decade.Still, the...
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US Spies Were Warning Maliki For Years Of The Mess Iraq Was Becoming
U.S. intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned top government officials that Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki and his policies were gravely antagonizing his country's Sunni population,...
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Special Forces Heading To Iraq Won't Be Getting Extra 'Danger Pay'
Special Forces troops heading to Iraq to advise the Iraqi security forces will not receive combat pay but will have immunity from local law, Pentagon officials said Friday."This is not a combat...
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Here Are Some Of The Most Bizarre Ideas From The CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency secretly developed an Osama bin Laden action figure whose face peeled off to reveal a scary devil beneath, according to an account first published this week in The...
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Moving Company Holds Troops' Household Goods Hostage
Officials with the agency responsible for service member's household good shipments called reports of goods being held hostage by Defense Department transportation subcontractors until they are paid an...
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There Have Only Been 15 Instances In Modern Combat Worthy Of America's...
On Thursday, President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Cpl. Kyle Carpenter, making him the 15th recipient of the nation's highest military award for bravery after more than a decade of war in...
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The 5 Biggest Myths About Iraq's Descent Into Chaos
A lot of conventional wisdom about the crisis in Iraq likely oversimplifies the country's present situation.Chaos has gripped Iraq following the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and its...
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Why The Kurds Selling Oil To Israel Could Mean The Eventual Split Of Iraq
Recent news out of Iraq that the Kurdistan Region had sold its first batch of oil to Israel prompted a quicker reaction from Baghdad than when their army was attacked on all fronts by the Islamic State...
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Here's Why Germany Refuses To Play A Larger Role In NATO
One of the stranger aspects of the slow-motion crisis over Ukraine caused by Russian provocations and aggression is the uneven response from NATO members.While Alliance states located closer to Russia,...
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Australia Is The Largest Per Capita Contributor Of Foreign Fighters To ISIS
Australia has become the largest per capita contributor of foreign fighters to the extremist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a jihadist organization that controls much of Syria...
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How Bill Clinton Pushed The Story Of A Connection Between Iraq, WMD, And Al...
Ok, let’s stipulate up front: the Bush administration owns the invasion of Iraq and everything that happened because of it up through 2009. When Megyn Kelley is pantsing former Vice President Dick...
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The Next Medal Of Honor Recipient Crawled Through Rocket Fire During One Of...
A former Army staff sergeant will receive the Medal of Honor on July 21 for his heroics during one of the deadliest battles of the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Ryan Pitts spent an...
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An Iraqi Militant Group Is Posting Photos Of Its Astounding Gains On Twitter
Ansar al Islam (AAI), a jihadist group founded in northern Iraq in September 2001, has released a set of photographs purportedly showing its ongoing operations. Since the latest rebel offensive against...
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The Ukrainian Peace Process Is Limping Along, But Putin Will Probably Still...
While the weeklong ceasefire announced by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week did not bring an end to fighting over the weekend, it appears that the level of violence has diminished and that...
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Destroying Iran's Networks Is The Key To Ending ISIS
Rand Paul is on the anti-war warpath. "What would airstrikes accomplish?" the Kentucky Senator asked in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, even as he refused to rule them out in the American response to the...
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Here's The Flashpoint That Could Soon Plunge Iraq Into Full-Blown Civil War
The golden-domed Samarra shrine is once again a flash point that threatens to plunge all of Iraq into a full-blown civil war. Samarra's al-Askari Mosque contains the mausoleums of two Shia Imams,...
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Syrian Forces Just Bombed ISIS Targets Inside Iraq
In a sign of the expanding international crisis sparked by ISIS's rapid advances, Syrian warplanes have bombed some of the jihadist group's bases in Iraq, Ali A. Nabhan and Matt Bradley of The Wall...
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India Is Co-Developing A Fifth-Generation Fighter Plane Alongside Russia
Within the next few years, India is set to join a select group of countries with a fifth-generation fighter plane in its arsenal.India's upcoming jet, the Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft...
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Top Kurdish Official: 'Iraq Is Not Our Neighbor, ISIS Is Our Neighbor'
The reality on the ground has changed drastically since the Americans made the Kurds withdraw from Kirkuk in 2003.While the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and other Sunni militant groups are...
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