Soldiers exposed to new combat realities with expanded training
Drill sergeants now serve as squad leaders in field training.
By Todd South
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Army picks two companies to get small drones to brigade combat teams
Two companies will provide small, expendable and reconfigurable air drones to brigade combat team maneuver companies.
By Jen Judson
Trump backtracks on Syria after talks with French leader
So much for an abrupt U.S. pullout from Syria.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press
Trump wants out of Syria, but don't say 'timeline'
President Donald Trump has spoken: He wants U.S. troops and civilians out of Syria by the fall. But don’t call it a “timeline.”
As Trump mulls a pullout, ISIS attempts to re-emerge in Syria
Even as President Donald Trump mulls a U.S. pullout from Syria, insisting that the Islamic State group is “almost completely defeated,” the extremist group is showing signs of a revival.
By Philip Issa, The Associated Press
How much longer will US and partner forces ‘own the night’ in combat?
Filmed through the tinted green of night vision goggles, a February video by the Taliban depicts their assault on an Afghan Local Police outpost in Khandahar province.
By Kyle Rempfer
Trump's 2019 budget calls for 2.6 percent pay raise, thousands more troops
Lawmakers still have to finalize their fiscal 2018 spending plans before debating how the fiscal 2019 money should be allotted.
US forces on guard in Iraq, even as troop levels are expected to decline
A recent video shows U.S. troops working with Iraqi forces along the Syria border.
By Victoria Leoni
US begins reducing troops in Iraq after victory over ISIS
The U.S. has started to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq following Baghdad’s declaration of victory over the Islamic State group last year, an Iraqi government spokesman and Western contractors said Monday.
Pentagon now says 7,200 troops are in Iraq and Syria
The Pentagon is trying to downplay troop numbers for both countries.
By Tara Copp, AP
26,000 US troops total in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, DoD reports
The actual figures, reported in a DOD database, reflect a much larger U.S. footprint than previously acknowledged.
By Tara Copp, AP
NATO boosts support to Afghanistan war; Falls short of goal
After months of lobbying NATO allies to increase their troop contributions and support to the war in Afghanistan, the alliance came up short Thursday, meeting a bit more than 90 percent of the military requirements mapped out by commanders, according to NATO officials.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press