A bitter struggle between an innovative Silicon Valley software inventor and the Army has shifted from the raging battlefields of Afghanistan to a sedate federal claims court in Washington.
WikiLeaks says that founder Julian Assange’s internet access has been cut by an unidentified state actor. Few other details were immediately available.
Iraqi and Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes launched coordinated military operations early Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway. But the battle is likely to be long and it was unclear when the troops would enter the city itself.
Buji Abdullahi and his family managed to escape the deadly attack on his village by the militant Islamic group Boko Haram, but then he lost his young son to another scourge sweeping through the relief camps in northeastern Nigeria: a desperate lack of food.
The Obama administration has already blamed Russia with interfering in the U.S. election process, but the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee says the Kremlin isn’t merely meddling: Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, accused Russia this week of waging cyberattacks to help put Donald Trump in the White House.
Hundreds of soldiers attached to the Army’s 1st Infantry Division are heading to Iraq to support American-backed efforts to drive the Islamic State from the country.
Four dozen members of the U.S. House of Representatives demanded answers from the Obama administration Friday over reports suggesting Yahoo scanned the emails of millions of its customers on behalf of the federal government.
A U.S. company has largely turned the cumbersome suits and equipment of explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) personnel into a non-factor with its new off-road vehicle.
Hillary Clinton’s advisers wrestled for months over whether she should support the use of strong encryption or government-mandated “backdoors” as terror attacks in the U.S. and abroad put the question at the center of a national security debate in her lead up to securing the Democratic nomination for president, leaked emails reveal.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s recent call for a “sneak attack” against the Islamic State in Iraq drew snickers from the national security establishment in Washington and elsewhere, but the idea that the Obama administration is unwisely telegraphing its battle plans to retake the group’s Iraqi stronghold of Mosul has sparked a debate in political and military circles.
Hillary Clinton privately said the U.S. would “ring China with missile defense” if the Chinese government failed to curb North Korea’s nuclear program, a potential hint at how the former secretary of state would act if elected president.
Residents of opposition-held eastern Aleppo woke up to a fresh wave of airstrikes Friday amid clashes between government forces and rebels, part of a devastating military campaign by Syria and Russia that opposition activists say killed dozens of people in the past week.
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Airstrikes on rebel-held areas in the northern province of Aleppo Monday killed at least 36 people, including children, opposition activists said, as violence in Syria continued while a major operation began against the Islamic State group in neighboring Iraq.
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The Latest developments in Iraq's operation to retake the northern city of Mosul from the Islamic State group (all times local):
State and local officials are trying to determine how and why a former defense department manufacturing plant burned in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Latest on the developments in Syria's civil war (all times local):
Two Chinese astronauts began the country's longest crewed space mission yet on Monday, blasting off on a spacecraft for a 30-day stay on an experimental space station as China steadfastly navigates its way to becoming a space superpower.
One of the defendants in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing trial took the stand Monday.
Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway. But the battle for Mosul is likely to be long and at was unclear at this early stage when the troops would enter the city itself.
For Yu Shuiping and other Chinese veterans, the country they served has yet to show its gratitude.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is calling the start of Iraqi operations to liberate Mosul "a decisive moment in the campaign" to deliver a lasting defeat to the Islamic State group.
China launched a pair of astronauts into space Monday on a mission to dock with an experimental space station and remain aboard for 30 days in preparation for the start of operations by a full-bore facility six years from now.
Iraqi forces appear poised to launch their most complex anti-IS operation to date: retaking the country's second-largest city of Mosul. While the country's military has won a string of territorial victories that have pushed the Islamic State group out of more than half the territory the group once held, some Iraqi officials worry that the Mosul fight has been rushed and if the city is retaken without a plan to broker a peace, it could lead to more violence.
Authorities say a military base in southeast Washington was briefly locked down because of a report of an armed person, but police found nothing after a search.
Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces captured the symbolically-significant town of Dabiq from the Islamic State group on Sunday as government forces reversed recent rebel advances in the center of the country.
Federal authorities say an Ohio man has been indicted on more criminal charges for using a social media site to incite violence against U.S. military members on behalf of the Islamic State group.
