Carlo Muñoz

U.S., Iraqi forces in ‘final rehearsal’ for campaign to retake Mosul from ISIS

U.S. and allied officials say the final training for Iraqi forces will be done by the middle of the month, clearing the way for the long-anticipated campaign to retake Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and a key stronghold of Islamic State.

October 5, 2016

Pakistan boosts military ties to Russia amid Kashmir tensions

Worried about increasingly close U.S.-India defense ties, Pakistan will conduct joint military exercises with Russia and begin buying arms from Moscow for the first time in decades, a key Pakistani lawmaker and aide to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday.

October 4, 2016

Gen. Mark Milley, Army chief of staff, says rebuilding means more than just more soldiers

The Army's readiness problems after over a decade of continuous combat in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot simply be solved by recruiting more soldiers into its ranks, the service's top officer said Monday.

October 3, 2016

U.S. deploys more troops to Iraq for showdown with ISIS

The U.S. and Iraq took a big step closer to a showdown with Islamic State fighters Wednesday as the Pentagon announced that 615 more U.S. soldiers are heading to Iraq in anticipation of the battle to liberate Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

September 28, 2016

U.S. pressed to prevent Aleppo bloodbath as its residents ‘sit in their homes, waiting to die’

The U.S. must consider a no-fly zone and other aggressive actions to prevent an imminent bloodbath in the besieged rebel-held city of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian government forces, the head of civil defense forces known as the "White Helmets" warned on a Washington visit Tuesday.

September 27, 2016

Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton campaigns square off over U.S. military superiority

As Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump square off for their first debate of the election season, one question the candidates will tackle is the state of the American military.

September 25, 2016

Claims of mustard gas attack in Iraq remain inconclusive, U.S. military officials say

U.S. military officials in Iraq are walking back claims that American and Iraqi forces were hit with a chemical attack by the Islamic State, telling reporters Friday that evidence of such an attack remains inconclusive.

September 23, 2016

Islamic State launches chemical attack against U.S., Iraqi forces, Pentagon confirms

The U.S. military's top office confirmed Thursday that Islamic State operatives launched a chemical attack against Iraqi forces and their American military advisers positioned outside the group's Iraqi stronghold of Mosul.

September 22, 2016

Michael T. McCaul, House Homeland Security chief, presses new counterterror strategy

Law enforcement agencies should be granted the authority to go after jihadi propagandists online in the same way that local, state and federal agencies prosecute online child pornographers, the influential chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security said, outlining a broad counterterror strategy this week to take on Islamic State and other groups targeting the U.S. mainland.

September 21, 2016

U.S., Russia try to save cease-fire in Syria

U.S. diplomats were scrambling Tuesday to try to salvage a tenuous cease-fire deal in Syria after an accord with Russia collapsed in the face of mutual recriminations and renewed violence.

September 21, 2016

U.S, Russia suspend talks on joint operations in Syria as cease-fire deal fails

Negotiations between Washington and Moscow on potential cooperation in the air war against the Islamic State terror group in Syria have come to a screeching halt with little hope of resuming, according to the U.S. command in charge of American operations in the country.

September 20, 2016

Ahmad Khan Rahami investigation targets 2014 trip to Afghanistan

The suspect was a 28-year-old Afghan-born naturalized American citizen, and it took social media less than a day to track him down.

September 19, 2016

Ahmad Khan Rahami’s family sued New Jersey town over racial discrimination

As FBI agents continue the investigation, searching Ahmad Khan Rahami's family home Monday shortly after his capture, details are beginning to emerge about the suspect.

September 19, 2016

Ahmad Khan Rahami in custody following manhunt

Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, has been taken into custody by law enforcement in New Jersey.

September 19, 2016

Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, top ISIS propagandist, killed in airstrike in Syria

A top propagandist for the Islamic State, responsible for crafting the terror group's ultra-violent jihadi narrative online, was killed in a coalition airstrike in Syria.

September 16, 2016

Japan to join U.S. in patrols of South China Sea, new defense minister says

Japan will increase its military presence in the South China Sea through a series of "training" patrols in support of the U.S. and its allies through the hotly-contested waterways, new Defense Minister Tomomi Inada told a Washington audience Thursday.

September 15, 2016

U.S.-led coalition’s progress in ISIS fight tainted by Iranian-backed militias’ atrocities

The liberation of this fiercely contested city in central Iraq's volatile Anbar province should have been a high water mark in the campaign to break the Islamic State's hold on the country and reclaim swaths of territory swallowed up in its so-called "caliphate."

September 13, 2016

U.S., Russia drafting plans for joint command center for Syrian air war

The tenuous Syrian cease-fire appeared to be holding for another day, but U.S. commanders were facing increasingly pointed questions about a proposed command hub for a joint U.S.-Russian air campaign to fight the Islamic State and other jihadi targets.

September 13, 2016

Response to North Korean nuke test foiled by U.S.-China divide

China and the United States are playing the blame game over North Korea's most recent nuclear test, with Washington and Beijing trading accusations on whether each country is doing enough to curb Pyongyang's saber-rattling in the region. The ensuing diplomatic row resulting from the back and forth between the two global powers has only exacerbated the destabilizing effect last week's test has had in the Asia-Pacific.

September 12, 2016

Mosul campaign crucial in ISIS fight with Obama set to leave behind unfinished war

The imminent Mosul campaign also looms as a key battle in a global war on terror that will almost certainly be left unfinished when President Obama leaves office in just over four months -- a security, intelligence, diplomatic and political challenge that will instantly dominate the agenda of whoever wins in November.

September 11, 2016