Three police officers were killed Friday by a bomb buried beneath a road in Thailand’s far south, authorities said, as peace talks appear to falter in the insurgency-plagued region. The area bordering Malaysia, has seen near daily bombings and shootings since the most recent wave of rebellion erupted in 2004. ...
The US military is requesting authority to send up to 500 new troops to Iraq ahead of a much-anticipated campaign to take back Mosul from Islamic State, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “The new deployment would bring the overall U.S. presence to as high as 6,400,” it said, noting ...