Some 300 US Marines will head to Helmand province in Afghanistan this spring to help a NATO-led mission to train Afghan forces, the Marines said Friday. The move puts Marines back in Helmand, who left in 2014 as NATO withdrew its forces and let Afghan troops lead the fight against ...
US Department of Defense confirmed that Mahmoud al-Isawi, a Syria-based leader of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group was killed in an airstrike. Isawi was killed by the US-led coalition forces in 2016, the US Department of Defense announced in a press release on ...