Carlo Muñoz

Ismail Haniya, top Hamas leader, put on U.S. terrorist blacklist, says State Department

The State Department officials has Ismail Haniya, the head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, on the official U.S. terrorist blacklist in a move likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and the Arab world.

January 31, 2018

Gen. Paul Selva: U.S. coalition, partner nations working to address ISIS detainees, foreign fighters

U.S. and allied commanders are working closely with their regional counterparts in the anti-Islamic State or ISIS coalition to draft a plan on what to do with the hundreds of terrorist detainees taken into custody in Iraq and Syria.

January 30, 2018

North Korea closing in on critical long-range ballistic missile requirements, says top U.S. general

The North Korean regime is closing the gap in developing critical technologies needed to create and field a long-range ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S., forcing the Pentagon to assume those capabilities are already within Pyongyang's reach, the nation's No. 2 military officer said Tuesday.

January 30, 2018

Tet Offensive in Vietnam 50 years old

A half-century after the Tet Offensive, the attack and its aftermath can still spark bitter divisions while providing an object lesson in the power of perception in the prosecution of modern warfare.

January 29, 2018

ISIS terror attack on Afghan forces in Kabul: Scores dead, wounded

A complex suicide attack against Afghanistan's premier military academy left 11 Afghan troops dead and numerous others wounded, in the latest spasm of violence to rock the country's capital.

January 29, 2018

Sen. Tammy Duckworth slams Trump’s Vietnam draft deferments, chastises ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’

Sen. Tammy Duckworth said President Trump's lack of service puts him in no position to question his critics' support for the U.S. military.

January 28, 2018

Robert Gates, ex-defense secretary: ‘Rogue’ lawmakers behind GOP ‘secret society’ FBI accusations

Former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Sunday that "rogue" members of Congress have put forward GOP accusations of a secret cabal within the Justice Department.

January 28, 2018

Jerusalem will ‘never be unified’ and two-state solution now unacceptable: PLO Ambassador

The Trump administration's push to have Jerusalem officially recognized as the capital of Israel is destined to fail and will only exacerbate tensions between the U.S and the region, the top Palestinian diplomat in Washington said Thursday.

January 25, 2018

Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggle to head off clash over Syrian Kurds

President Trump personally pressed Turkey to rein in its bloody offensive against Kurdish forces in northern Syria, with the White House warning Ankara that continued action against U.S.-backed paramilitaries in the country raised the risk of a direct conflict with U.S. forces.

January 24, 2018

National Defense Strategy eyes war on terror proxies

Taking a page from its adversaries' playbook, the U.S. military is looking to outsource more of the fighting in the global war on terror to allied proxy forces and potentially private military contractors.

January 23, 2018

Veterans group denied Super Bowl ad time accuses NFL of censorship

A decision by the National Football League to deny a veterans group TV ad time during this year's Super Bowl has the vets group claiming liberal bias on behalf of the league.

January 23, 2018

U.S. citizens among wounded, dead in terror attack in Kabul

A number of U.S. citizens were among the injured and killed during a brazen terrorist attack on a popular hotel in the Afghan capital of Kabul over the weekend, the State Department confirmed Tuesday.

January 23, 2018

Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry: Pakistan won’t be ‘scapegoat’ for Afghan woes

Pakistan's top diplomat lashed out at the Trump administration's decision to withhold millions in foreign aid and military assistance to Islamabad over its suspected support for extremist militants in the region, saying Pakistan refuses to be the White House's "scapegoat" for its failing Afghan war policy.

January 22, 2018

Turkish artillery hammers Kurdish-held territory in Syria

Turkish forces hammered the Kurdish-controlled district of Afrin, in northern Syria's Aleppo governorate, with mortars and heavy artillery on Friday, in what could be the opening salvos of a large-scale offensive by Ankara on the district.

January 19, 2018

Pentagon shifts away from terrorism threats, sets sights on Russia, China in new defense strategy

Pentagon war planners are shifting away from the George W. Bush and Obama-era strategies dominated by battling extremist groups such as al Qaeda, the Taliban and Islamic State, and setting their sights on the growing military threat posed by Russia, China and other nation states.

January 19, 2018

Civilian deaths skyrocketed in final U.S., coalition push against ISIS in Iraq, Syria

Civilian injuries and deaths tied to airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition battling to push the Islamic State out of Iraq and Syria skyrocketed in the weeks and months leading to the liberation of the terror group's main bastions in both countries.

January 18, 2018

How the Coast Guard is prepping cruise missiles on icebreakers as another Cold War heats up

The Coast Guard's proposed heavy icebreaker for the Arctic comes with something no previous model ever had: room for cruise missiles.

January 17, 2018

Navy Surface Warfare chief resigns over fallout from fatal accidents in Pacific

The top Navy officer in charge of the sea service's Pacific combat fleet stepped down this week, ahead of a reportedly scathing review of Navy operations under his command, which included a slew of deadly accidents involving U.S. warships.

January 16, 2018

Full-fledged ISIS insurgency still in doubt, says top U.S. commander

Iraqi counterterrorism officials and their American counterparts are still evaluating the threat posed by the remnants of Islamic State in Iraq, refusing to characterize the jihadi group's various cells scattered across the country as a full-fledged insurgency.

January 16, 2018

U.S., Iraqi forces bracing for possible violence, ahead of key elections

American military advisers in Iraq are working closely with national counterterrorism and local police forces to prevent the Islamic State terror group or other extremist entities from disrupting key parliamentary elections, scheduled for later this year.

January 16, 2018