Over two dozen people are undergoing precautionary treatment for anthrax after the U.S. military accidentally shipped live samples of the deadly bacteria to civilian commercial labs in nine states and a military lab in South Korea. Officials say four laboratory workers in the United States, along with 22 personnel at Osan Air Force Base outside […]
The increased airstrikes and the tenacity of the Kurdish fighters on the ground in the Syrian city of Kobani has driven the ISIS fighters from the city according to reports coming out of that country this morning. ISIS fighters fled the city overnight and are now miles from the town where intense fighting between Kurdish […]
FORT MEADE, Md., Oct. 17, 2014 – The strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is working, but degrading and destroying the terror group will require “strategic patience,” Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III said today. Austin, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told reporters at the Pentagon that Iraq remains the […]
ANKARA—United States officials declared on Friday that the country “is at war with ISIL, in the same way that we are at war with al-Qaida and its al-Qaida affiliates all across the globe.” The statements, from spokepersons for the White House, the Pentagon and the State Department, mark the first time that top American officials used […]