CAPITOL HILL—U.S. lawmakers are reacting to the first U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, with a number of congressional leaders praising the action taken by President Barack Obama. But some members of Congress say the nature of the U.S. mission is shifting, and that Congress needs to debate and vote on authorization of […]
Pennsylvania State Police are confident that they are close on the trail of the man suspected of killing a state trooper and wounding another outside a trooper barracks in Blooming Grove, Pennsylvania. The search for 6-foot-one, 165 pound Eric Frein has entered the tenth day. On Sunday, searchers in the man-hunt found an AK-47 and […]
WASHINGTON – Russia’s continuing aggression in Ukraine, vulnerabilities posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other threats along NATO’s southern borders, and the alliance’s continuing commitments in Afghanistan were the chief topics in meetings with NATO’s chiefs of defense in Vilnius, Lithuania, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said […]
It was on Wednesday that the U.S. House acted on President Obama’s request to fund training and arming of moderate Syrian rebels in the president’s strategy to bring the fight to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria despite concerns that the president’s plan wasn’t broad enough. The funding was included as an amendment in […]