Jim Mattis
Pentagon Plans To ‘annihilate’ IS Fighters
President Donald Trump has instructed the Pentagon to "annihilate" the Islamic State group in Syria in a bid to prevent...
North Korea Conflict Would Be Tragic On ‘unbelievable Scale’
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis delivered a somber caution on North Korea on Friday, saying any military attempts to resolve...
Convoy Hit By Coalition In Syria Likely ‘Iranian-Directed’
A pro-regime convoy that was struck by US-led warplanes inside Syria this week likely was directed by Iran, Pentagon...
Trump Weighs Further US Troops For Afghanistan
Hanging in a corridor outside the Pentagon press office, a blow-up of a Time magazine cover shows a weary US soldier...
Pentagon Chief, Turkish PM Meet After Decision To Arm Kurds
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Thursday he had "no doubt" that Turkey and the United States would work out any...
US Envoy To Qatar Says News From Home ‘increasingly Difficult’
The US ambassador to Qatar has expressed her dissatisfaction with political events back home in a decidedly...
Russia’s Lavrov To Meet With Trump On Syria Amid Uproar
US President Donald Trump will receive Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov at the White House Wednesday even as a...
US To Arm Kurds In Battle For Raqqa
US President Donald Trump has approved supplying weapons to Kurdish forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in...
White House Approves Supply of Weapons To YPG In Syria
US President Donald Trump has approved the supplying of weapons to Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State group in...
Anti-IS Coalition Meets In Denmark To Assess Campaign
Key members of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday to...
US Studying Moscow’s Syria Deal
The United States is closely examining whether a Russia-brokered deal to establish safe zones in Syria can work in the...
ISIS Suicide Car Bomber Attacks US Convoy In Afghanistan Killing Eight
Eight civilians were killed and another 28 people wounded, including three American soldiers, when an ISIS suicide...
Bomb Blast Targets Foreign Forces In Kabul
A bomb blast targeting a convoy of foreign forces near the US embassy in Kabul Wednesday killed at least three people...
IS Afghanistan Leader Likely Killed
US and Afghan troops likely killed the leader of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate in a raid this week,...
Army Rangers May Have Been Killed By Friendly Fire
The Pentagon on Friday said it was investigating whether two U. S. special operations commandos who were killed in...
North Korea Faces Tighter Sanctions Under Trump Strategy
The US is to tighten sanctions on North Korea and step up diplomatic moves aimed at pressuring the country to end its...
N.Korea’s Kim Must Come To ‘his Senses’
A top US admiral said Wednesday that America wants to bring North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to "his senses," as...
‘ US Admiral Takes Blame In Carrier To N.Korea Fiasco
The US admiral who ordered an aircraft carrier and other warships toward the Korean Peninsula in a much-hyped...
Saudi Shake-Up Strengthens King’s Powerful Son
A recent Saudi government and security shake-up aims to strengthen King Salman's increasingly powerful son against a...