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Why the captain of a US Navy aircraft carrier fighting in the Red Sea is always posting about things like Taco Tuesday and cookies
Capt. Chris Hill, the commanding officer of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, regularly posts on social…
Jake Epstein
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Constant ISIS terror attacks are challenging the Taliban's tenuous grip on power in Afghanistan
Months after the Afghan government collapsed and US forces left, the Islamic State's Afghanistan af…
Jake Epstein
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SOCOM is after new tech to help special operations forces spot, track, and take out urban threats without being seen
The system would allow commandos to track, target, and even engage enemy fighters without exposing …
Stavros Atlamazoglou
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Drone that killed US troops in attack slipped past defenses because there was confusion on whether or not it was American: reports
The White House and Pentagon blamed Iran-backed militias for a drone attack that killed three US tr…
Jake Epstein
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Iran ups the ante against US, proxies strike Iraq military base with ballistic missiles
US personnel in Iraq are undergoing brain injury evaluations after Iranian-backed militias targeted…
Rebecca Rommen
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2 US Navy SEALS lost at sea were part of a long struggle to stop Iran smuggling deadly weapons to its allies
The two Navy SEALs who were lost at sea last Thursday were part of a yearslong struggle to thwart I…
Thibault Spirlet
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Why Iran tried to kill ISIS commanders in Syria with ballistic missiles
Iran targeted ISIS commanders in Syria on Monday, it said, in a series of attacks across the region.
Rebecca Rommen
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Biden says ISIS leader blew himself up during US military raid in 'final act of desperate cowardice,' killing family members
Syria Civil Defence said in a statement that it had recovered the bodies of 13 people, including si…
Jake Epstein,John Haltiwanger
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Researchers mapped the damage in Gaza, and more than a third of the buildings have been wrecked as the war moves south
Israeli forces have dropped tens of thousands of bombs across the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 Hamas…
Jake Epstein
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Soaring attacks on US forces and others in the Middle East demand firm response to send a message, former top commander says
The former head of US Central Command told Business Insider that these Iran-backed attacks could be…
Jake Epstein
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The Taliban says it will not cooperate with the US to weed out the Islamic State from Afghanistan
"We are able to tackle Daesh independently," a Taliban spokesperson told the AP, using an Arabic ac…
Yelena Dzhanova
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The Ukrainian sniper team claiming the world's longest kill shot described how they shot a Russian officer from over 2 miles away
The sniper team used a laser and had to factor in wind, humidity, and air temperature to make the r…
Natalie Musumeci,Jake Epstein
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A US Navy warship had to gun down more threats as American forces get pulled deeper into fights being fueled by Israel's war with Hamas
A US Navy destroyer responding to commercial ships that came under missile fire on Sunday ended up …
Jake Epstein
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US military carries out drone strike against the Islamic State in Afghanistan
The strike killed its intended target in the Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, US military …
Morgan Keith
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Top Islamic State commander who led deadly attack on US soldiers killed by French troops
Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, head of the Islamic State in the Sahara, played a pivotal role in the k…
Jake Epstein
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Israel's use of 'really big' bombs to strike tiny Gaza Strip might only compare to Vietnam or World War II, military analyst says
The scale of destruction in Gaza is due to Israel's extensive bombing campaign and the size of its …
Alia Shoaib
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Israel's liberal use of large US-made bombs accounts for the high civilian casualty toll in Gaza, military experts say: 'It's beyond anything that I've seen in my career'
The Israeli military's use of 2,000-pound, US-made bombs is contributing to a rate of death in Gaza…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Islamic State 'Beatles' cell member faces life in prison after pleading guilty to executions of American journalists, aid workers
Alexanda Kotey faces a life sentence as his plea marks the first time a member of ISIS is held acco…
Jake Epstein
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Blast near Kabul airport, as per media reports
According to the BBC, images posted on social media show black clouds of smoke rising into the a…
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Military planes at Kabul airport have been performing corkscrew landings and sending out flares to avoid potential missile attacks, report says
Countries like the US and UK have stepped up their warnings over the possibility of attacks at Kabu…