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 […]
There will not be another ground war fought in Iraq by U.S. troops according to President Obama today. He sought to reassure troops and the nation today in a speech at MacDill Airforce Base in Tampa, Florida. It was at MacDill, the headquarters of U.S. Central Command, that Obama said, “The American forces that have been […]
About 30 countries have pledged to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants by “all means necessary” including military aid. In a statement following a Monday conference in Paris on the crisis, diplomats said aid should come in line with “needs expressed by the Iraqi authorities, in accordance with international law and without […]