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The U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is shown here. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pentagon praises Macedonia for repatriation of ISIS foreign fighters

The Defense Department is lauding Macedonia's decision Tuesday to repatriate a group of Islamic State foreign fighters captured in Syria, pressing other foreign nations to follow suit as part of an overall effort to address the growing issue of combat detainees taken off the battlefields of Syria and northern Iraq.

August 7, 2018
Iranian navy speed boats attend a drill in the sea of Oman, on Friday, Dec. 30, 2011. Iran's navy chief has reiterated for a second time in less than a week that his country can easily close the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the passageway through which a sixth of the world's oil flows. (AP Photo/IIPA, Ali Mohammadi)

Iran Strait of Hormuz exercise shows ability to halt oil flow

Iran's navy sent dozens of small boats into the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, dramatizing its ability to choke off the strategic Persian Gulf waterway -- a move that could send global oil and U.S. gasoline prices soaring -- and escalating the confrontation with the Trump administration for withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal.

August 3, 2018
American air power against Islamic State targets killed roughly 260 to 460 civilians in Syria in the first six months of the year, according to figures compiled by Airwars. (Associated Press)

Pentagon faces more operational restrictions under defense authorization bill

The Pentagon will face stricter operating and reporting rules under the major defense authorization bill heading to the White House for President Trump's signature, as U.S. military leaders find themselves under fire for what critics say is a failure to account for and minimize civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes and military operations.

August 1, 2018
American Christian pastor Andrew Brunson, a North Carolina native who has lived and worked in Turkey for two decades, has been held in a Turkish jail for the past 18 months on charges relating to ties with U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. He is also accused of playing a role in the failed 2016 military coup to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. sanctions Turkey for Andrew Brunson’s detention

The Trump administration slapped economic sanctions on two senior Turkish officials Wednesday, escalating a clash over an American pastor being held by Ankara on what U.S. officials say are trumped-up terrorism charges.

August 1, 2018
A foreign Islamic State group fighter, second right, speaks to a journalist after he surrendered to government security forces in the Darzab district of Jawzjan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. Afghan officials said more than 150 Islamic State fighters have surrendered to government forces on Wednesday in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban in the northern Jawzjan province. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Hundreds of ISIS fighters surrender to Afghan, Taliban forces

Over 100 members of the Islamic State's Afghan cell laid down their arms and surrendered to the Taliban and local government forces in the northern part of the country on Wednesday, just over a month after U.S. and Afghan forces flushed the terror group from its redoubts in eastern Afghanistan.

August 1, 2018
In this Sept. 2, 2015, photo, an F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Congress blocks F-35 fighter shipments to Turkey

Congressional defense lawmakers officially barred deliveries of the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkish forces, inserting the ban into the final version of the Pentagon's budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year.

July 24, 2018
In this Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, file photo, Kurdish flags wave in central Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed) ** FILE **

ISIS attack in Irbil, Iraq, sparks fears of terrorists’ return

A brazen, coordinated daytime attack in the heart of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region Monday is stoking concerns that the threat posed by the Islamic State has not subsided but is rebuilding its resources in the months after Washington and Baghdad declared the group's defeat last July.

July 23, 2018
A Ukrainian soldier launches a US anti-tank missile Javelin during military training on a military training ground outside Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 22, 2018. The US has supplied Ukraine with a batch of Javelin anti-tank weapons, including 37 launchers and 210 missiles. A war conflict with the Kremlin backed separatists has hit Ukraine's east since 2014. (Mykhailo Markiv, Presidential Press Service Pool Photo via AP)

Pentagon to send $200 million military aid package to Ukraine

The Defense Department approved a $200 million military aid package to Ukrainian forces on Friday, bringing the total amount of American weapons and equipment sent to support Kiev's fight against Russian-backed separatists in the country to $1 billion.

July 20, 2018
In this Friday, Feb. 2, 2018, photograph, two Yemeni soldiers allied to the country's internationally recognized government walk on a mountainside exposed to territory controlled by the Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels below on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen's conflict, which began as a civil war in 2014 and escalated into a regional proxy fight, drags on today. Winning the hardscrabble terrain takes time and costs dearly, only exacerbating the country's humanitarian crises and making a war that's seen over 10,000 people killed last that much longer. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Iran-backed Yemen rebels expose limits of U.S. strategy

Iran-backed militant control over key areas of Yemen, despite a blistering assault by U.S.-backed Saudi and Emirati military forces, has sent a difficult message to Washington: Arab powers armed with American weaponry and targeting intelligence isn't going to be enough to crush Tehran's armed proxies around the Middle East.

July 19, 2018