President Barack Obama on Friday officially named former deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter as his pick to lead the U.S. military. Obama said Carter is “rightly regarded as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders” during an...
(Anadolu News Agency)- U.S. officials on Tuesday clarified opposing statements made a day earlier about media reports about negotiations on a buffer zone in Syria along the Turkish border. Pentagon spokesperson Rear Adm. John Kirby said that a buffer zone in northern Syria...
BEIRUT: DNA samples of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were matched Wednesday with three children who are currently being held by Lebanese authorities over the suspicion of being related to the jihadi chief. According to a source in the investigation, DNA samples, which were...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is creating a vigorous vetting process to weed out undesirables among the Syrian rebels it will train to fight Islamic State, but some of the new recruits will be familiar faces requiring far more limited screening....
