Blast Kills al Nusra Commander, 3 Others
Several senior al Qaeda leaders were killed in a blast Thursday believed to be the result of a Syrian air force strike on a jihadist meeting in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib. Among the dead was Jabhat al Nusras top military commander, Abu.
The Golden age of Black Ops ��� Last year US Special Forces.
That blood-soaked episode was, depending on your vantage point, an ignominious end to a year that saw U.S. Special Operations forces deployed at near record levels, or an inauspicious beginning to a new year already on track to reach similar. This capped a three-year span in which the countrys most elite forces were active in more than 150 different countries around the world, conducting missions ranging from kill/capture night raids to training exercises.
Pentagon deploys to the crisis in Nepal; Naval ships pound Yemens Aden.
The Air Force yesterday dispatched a team of around 70 personnel to help with the recovery efforts while additional U.S. service members in the region remain on standby to help where directed in the coming days... rebel groups a small number of anti.
Battle to Retake Iraqi City Looms as Test of Obamas ISIS Strategy
The assessment will be pivotal in driving important policy and military decisions that President Obama will need to make in the coming weeks, including whether the Pentagon will need to deploy teams of American ground forces to call in allied.
Secret Executive Order Gives U.S. Military Wide Latitude.
The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States.. Some of the military missions have been conducted in close coordination with the C.I.A., according to senior American officials, who said that in others, like the Special Operations raid in Syria on Oct. 26 of this year, the military commandos acted in support of��.
US Military Plan For Looming ISIS Offensive Takes Shape
While Syrian rebels, largely Kurdish, have been able to hold on to the town of Kobani, they havent regained any ground. In Iraq, the Pentagon estimates that the Kurdish pesh merga forces have retaken a scant 1.3% of the contested territory ISIS has.
Mom by Day, Terrorist by Night
The imam suggested that the only possible explanation was that the two women had been ���set-up��� with the help of an undercover cop who is repeatedly cited in the criminal complaint filed by the Joint Terrorist Task Force. And there does seem to be a.
Meet the Shadow Warrior Leading the Fight Against the.
���Mike Nagata basically stood up and told them that Syria and Yemen and Iraq were coming apart at the seams,��� said another special operations officer in the room, whose account was confirmed by a former senior intelligence official who.. When the New York Times reported in late 2014 that he had ���assembled an unofficial brain trust��� from experts in industry, academia, and think tanks, his bosses were miffed.. The United States Does Not Know Who Its Killing.
EVENTS IN TIME (BIBLE PROPHECY LITERALLY.
(CNN)U.S. Special Operations forces killed a senior ISIS commander during a raid intended to capture him in eastern Syria overnight Friday to Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said.The ISIS commander, Abu��.
ISIS ���Probe��� Attack Against US Marines In Iraq ��� Ain al-Asad.
All eight Islamic State fighters were killed by Iraqi forces in the 7:20 a.m. raid on Ain al-Asad air base in the western province of Anbar, and none of the 400 U.S. military personnel at the base were involved, according to officials. Sources. But Defense Department spokeswoman confirmed to Fox News that ���heavy fighting��� took place in al-Baghdadi on Thursday, and on Friday, sources said that Iraqi troops were making progress in clearing ISIS fighters. There are��.
The US Is Providing Air Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Iraq
He told Human Rights Watch: ���They kept saying, You are ISIS, and I kept denying it.. In Syria, for instance, the National Defense Force, a conglomerate of militias trained and equipped by Irans Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC) ��� a U.
He Handles American Nuclear Weapons, Has Anger Issues
But the commander of a nuclear courier squad based in Oak Ridge, Tennessee���where the uranium portions of H-bombs are fabricated, stored, and periodically moved to other federal sites���allegedly threatened to kill one of his colleagues two years ago.
US commandos enter eastern Syria and kill senior ISIS.
The 8 most elite special forces in the world.. The Pentagon says US commandos have mounted a rare raid deep in eastern Syria, killing the Islamic State commander in charge of oil fields and capturing his wife. Defense. Syrian state media earlier reported government forces killed at least 40 IS fighters, including a senior commander in charge of oil fields, in an attack Saturday on the countrys largest oil field -- held by IS.. Get Military and Defense Emails and Alerts.
Top Republican calls for US ground war amid fresh strikes.
Fresh wave of bombing raids target Islamic State oil supplies as John Boehner ramps up military rhetoric.. US bombing Isis in Syria. Buildings damaged following the American-led coalitions airstrikes against the Islamic State in Aleppo, Syria. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. Ed Pilkington in New York. The debate in Washington over the roll of ground forces came as the US-led coalition continued to pound Isis positions in Syria and Iraq from the air.
US Hands Over Night Raids to Afghan Forces, With Possible
Kabul and Washington have agreed to a compromise solution to the nettlesome issue of night raids that have been carried out by U.S. Special Operations forces on Afghan homes and compounds suspected of harboring Taliban. The Afghan defense minister, Abdul Rahim Wardak, and the senior-most U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen.. While the Afghan public and Karzai may not like the night raids, they will have to learn to live with them for a long time, it seems.
US Special Forces Kill Senior ISIS Commander in Syria Raid, Defense.
WASHINGTON ��� American Special Operations forces entered eastern Syria on Friday and killed a senior leader of the Islamic State, according to the Defense Department. The leader, Abu Sayyaf, was involved in the groups military operations and also .
US launched raid in Syria to rescue American hostages held.
Kirby indicated that top tier US special operations forces ��� two squads of Army Delta Force ��� were involved in the rescue operation, according to The New York Times. ���In this case, we put the best of the United States military��.
ISILs Political-Military Power in Iraq | Combating Terrorism.
Trained fighters were increasingly shifted from Syria to Iraq from ���early 2013��� according to McGurk, and new camps were set up on the Iraqi side of the border complete with local anti-aircraft defenses that proved effective. [27] ISIL columns have the mobility to rapidly exploit any thinning of enemy forces, as occurred recently when ISIL struck Jalula on August 10, 2014, a town that Kurdish special forces had previously left to meet an ISIL thrust elsewhere at Makhmour.
US Navy Seals targeted senior al-Shabaab commander in.
Browse: Home / US Navy Seals targeted senior al-Shabaab commander in Somalia raid. The Seals, the special operations force that killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, were said by The New York Times to have approached from the sea before engaging in an hour-long battle.. killed. However, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said that ���no UK forces at all��� were involved.. Category: Feature Posts, ISIS, ISIL, alleged beheadings and other terrorist atrocities, Syria��.
syrian army special forces bloody alqaeda in salmaa; saa.
LATAKIA: Salmaa Area: A crack special operations unit of the Syrian Army initiated a sudden raid on a group of Al-Qaeda/Nusra rodents in the area of.. ISIS has not been able to make use of these wells and fields for months and it is expected they will withdraw without much protestation in order to reinforce at either Al-Raqqa or Mosul. Thats the expectation.. How many forests of New York Times would have to be chopped down to get such a impactful rundown?
US General Says Raiding Syria Is Key to Halting ISIS
In the current battle with ISIS inside Iraq, Mr. Obamas military strategy has been aimed at containing the militant organization rather than defeating it, according to Defense Department officials and military experts. Pressed on. That includes an.
What the US Got From Cuba Deal: Zilch
Obama touted the meeting as a representation of his view that ���we can disagree with a spirit of respect and civility, and over time, it is possible for us to turn the page and develop a new relationship between our two countries.��� The idea of turning.
7 times when Irans strategic mastermind reshaped the Middle East
As the commander of Irans Quds Force ��� the foreign branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards best described as a cross between the CIA and Special Forces ��� Suleimani has emerged as Irans leading foreign strategist.. Its estimated that around.
Kerry Says U.S. May Negotiate With Assad
Kerrys remarks about negotiating with Assad come just days after CIA Director John Brennan told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that a Syrian government collapse could be highly dangerous. ���What we dont want to do is. But the rebels.
Russia Tells Iraq Its ���Ready��� to Support Fight Against ISIS.
In his September 11, 2013 New York Times Op-Ed, Putin discussed the danger posed to international peace and security by Islamic militant groups in Syria.. Retired US General Stanley McChrystal, former commander of the US Joint Special Operations Command, has offered hints on how to exploit situational awareness which were summarized in the January 7, 2014 greatcharlie.com post entitled, ���Obama, Putin discuss Olympics Security in Call; Putin Has Got It��.
Seymour Hersh: Obamas Entire Account Of bin Ladens.
. betrayals would create a backlash. High-level lying nevertheless remains the modus operandi of US policy, along with secret prisons, drone attacks, Special Forces night raids, bypassing the chain of command, and cutting out those who might say no.. never informed of the US mission. This remains the White House position despite an array of reports that have raised questions, including one by Carlotta Gall in the New York Times Magazine of 19 March 2014.
Jordanians Step Up Bombing Raids on ISIS
Even as Jordan was stamping its imprint on the American-led campaign against the Islamic State, which has seized territory in both Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon said it was taking additional steps to reduce the time it would take to reach pilots who are.
Aram I: The Armenians were not massacred because they were Christians
According to the Catholicos, who was present at the ceremony in St. Peters Basilica, ���this is the time for Christian Churches in the West express their solidarity toward Christians of the Middle East in more tangible ways... on the need for us to.
Shabaab claims it repelled raid by Western special.
US Navy SEALs carried out the raid in Barawe which targets a senior Shabaab commander, according to The New York Times. It is unclear if the commander was killed in the raid. The Department of Defenses spokesman��.
Australia in Americas Third Iraq War | Global Research.
On June 20th, the day the United States deployed 300 military advisors, Australias new war began with the announcement of the deployment of a small detachment of Australian Defence Force personnel to defend the Australian Embassy in the. The special forces soldiers will be partnered with Iraqi counter-terrorism forces, and accompanying them to forward operating bases, working in an advise-assist role with the Iraqi special forces down to battalion-level.
Middle East Updates / Lavrov: Russia will continue supporting Syria in.
U.S. special ops took part in Yemen raid, senior defense official says; Death toll following Syria air strike in ISIS-stronghold of Raqqa rises to 95; U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills five suspected militants. By Haaretz. The New York Times first.
US Soldiers, Back in Iraq, Find Security Forces in Disrepair
Even in a training role, however, this venerable Iraqi military base puts American soldiers very close to what passes for a front line in the conflict with the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. From time to time, the extremists lob mortar.