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Carlo Muñoz

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Carlo Muñoz is a former military correspondent for The Washington Times.

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In this Wednesday, July 26, 2017, photo, people with the Human Rights Campaign hold up "equality flags" during an event organized by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., in support of transgender members of the military on Capitol Hill in Washington, after President Donald Trump said he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Pentagon issues final rules on Trump’s transgender ban

Current U.S. service members looking to transition sexes could face forced retirement or be discharged from the military for medical reasons, as part of the Pentagon's new transgender policy outlined Friday.

April 12, 2019
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan welcomes South Korean National Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo, during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, April 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Patrick Shanahan weighs military role in Mexico border shutdown

Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan will meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to discuss what role the U.S. military may have in a possible shutdown of the southern border threatened by President Trump.

April 1, 2019
FILE - In this May 27, 2016 file photo, Taliban fighters react to a speech by their senior leader in the Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. In a Thursday, March 28, 2019 report the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction, a U.S. watchdog, said that Afghanistan will remain dependent on international donors and foreign help even after a peace deal with the Taliban is reached. The report identified main high-risk areas including the reintegration of as many as 60,000 heavily armed Taliban fighters and their families back into Afghan society. (AP Photos/Allauddin Khan, File) **FILE**

Afghan peace hopes clouded by U.S.-backed government’s weaknesses

As American negotiators inch closer to a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the U.S.-backed government in Kabul remains heavily dependent on foreign money and military support to fight insurgent groups, finance its security forces, and prevent regional warlords from splintering the country, the top U.S. watchdog for the 18-year conflict warned Thursday.

March 28, 2019
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters walk in a building as fight against Islamic State militants continue in the village of Baghouz, Syria, Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

ISIS ‘caliphate’ ends in Baghouz, Syria

The five-year battle to wrest control of much of Syria and northern Iraq from the grip of the Islamic State came to an end this weekend in the small, dusty eastern Syrian village of Baghouz, with U.S.-backed forces liberating that last patch of land under Islamic State control and bringing an end to the group's dreams of a restored "caliphate" in the Middle East.

March 24, 2019
A woman walks by graffiti showing the Serbian flag, left, and Russian flags with maps of Kosovo and Crimea in northern, Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2018. Serbia threatened a possible armed intervention in Kosovo after the Kosovo parliament on Friday overwhelmingly approved the formation of an army. Russia denounced the move to form a Kosovo army, saying the ethnic Albanian force must be "disbanded" by NATO in Kosovo. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Frustration, anger on fifth anniversary of Crimea takeover

On the fifth anniversary of Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, the operation remains a frustrating symbol of the West's inability to roll back President Vladimir Putin's risk-taking foreign policy, a top Ukrainian security official said Tuesday.

March 19, 2019