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US calls deadly Iraq friendly fire airstrike 'regrettable'
🀅 The American airstrike that may have kille𓃲d a number of Iraqi soldiers on Friday seems to be "a mistake that involved both sides," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Saturday....
US gives up on faile𒁃d strategy of training Syrian rebels 💎
LONDON -- The US is abandoning its goal of having America's military train a new force of moderate Syrian rebels, turning its focus to equipping, arming and supporti𝓰ng established groups...
US airstrike on hospital was ꩵrequested by Afghans, general s🎐ays
WASHINGTON — Afghan forces who reported being under Taliban fire req🍰uested the US airstrike that killed 22 people at a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan over the weekend, the top...
US defense chief makes sur🎃prise trip to Iraq
U.S. Defense S♕ecretary Aꦐsh Carter made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Thursday to assess the campaign against Islamic State, as Iraq advances plans to retake the fallen capital of...
ꦚ Pentagon studies plan to lift military ban on transgen🌳der people
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Pentagon's current regulations banning ൩transgender individuals fromღ serving in the military are outdated, and anyone willing to serve the country should be...
McCain grills military brass on 'losing' ISIS strategy
WASHINGTON — America's top two military leaders on Tuesday defended President Barack Obaꦦma's strategy to defeat Islamic State militants amid blistering criticism from Republican senators who argued that the administration's...
China is gambling Obama doesn't have will to respond to its massive land grab
🔥 You may not have noticed, as ISIS expands its reach across Iraq and Russia fuels conflict in Ukraine, but t𓄧he odds of an armed confrontation between the United States and...
US considers slowing military e🅺xit from Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — The United States is considering slowing its military exit f꧃rom Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop pre🔜sence this year and next because the new Afghan government is...
Joe Biden caught 'snuggling’ with Defense chief's wife
Vice President Joe Biden took hands-on politics to a creepy new level Tuesday by snuggling new Defense Se👍cretary Ashton Carter’s wife from behind. In a move straight out of the...
Senate confirms꧂ Ashton Carter for Pentagon chief
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed President Barack Obama's choice to run the Pentagon, handing Ashton Carter the unenviable task of steering the military as the United States confronts..♔.
Obama♏ nominates Ashton🎃 Carter as defense secretary
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is💧 calling Ashton Carter one of the 𝐆nation's foremost national security leaders as he nominates him as secretary of defense. Carter was deputy defense secretary from...
An impotent hawk: Obama's new Pentagon pick
"OMG, he wants to bomb North Korea”: That pretty well sums up one corner of social-media reaction Tuesday after the White House leaked the name of Ash🅠ton Carter as President...
🦩 Former Pentagon No. 2 expected to replace Hagel at Defense
President Barack Obama is expected to nominate🌸 former Pentagon official Ashton Carter as US defen🌳se secretary, CNN reported Tuesday. Carter, a former deputy secretary at the Department of Defense, had...