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Russia Threatens To Shoot Down US Fighter Jets
Russia has threatened US fighter jets flying missions in parts of Syria. The announcement comes after an American jet shot down a Syrian jet on Sunday. Watch the full video on...
By Nicholas Heras
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Navy collisions rare but provide lessons in their wake
While investigators search for the cause of a fatal collision involving the USS Fitzgerald with a container ship near Japan, Navy experts said such accidents are "very rare" b...
By Jerry Hendrix
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‘There wasn’t a lot of time’ as water flooded U.S. destroyer below decks
YOKOSUKA, Japan — In the dark of night the weather was clear, with a swell of about six feet. Near where the sea lanes converge for the run into Tokyo Bay, the USS Fitzgerald ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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U.S. Shoots Down Syrian Warplane for First Time
A U.S. fighter jet shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday, marking an unprecedented new escalation in the conflict between the U.S. and its allies and the Assad regime in Syria...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Nicholas Heras
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Implications of Trump’s arms sale to Saudi Arabia
U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia bearing a $110 billion dollar arms agreement. While much of that sale may never materialize, the offer sent a powerful sign...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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As U.S. Adds Troops in Afghanistan, Trump’s Strategy Remains Undefined
WASHINGTON — When President Trump made his first major decision on the war in Afghanistan, he did not announce it in a nationally televised address from the White House or a s...
By Michèle Flournoy
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‘What’s your end game?’ Trump delegating Afghan war decisions to the Pentagon faces scrutiny
President Trump’s decision to delegate authority to the Pentagon to set troop levels in Afghanistan has raised concerns that a few thousand additional troops expected to deplo...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Panama Establishes Ties With China, Further Isolating Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Panama has severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan in favor of recognizing China, the latest in a series of developments adding to the island’s isolation on ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Saudi allies ramp up sanctions on Qatar
Qatar is promising not to surrender in the face of sanctions imposed on it last week. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain halted land, air and sea traffi...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Trump is breaking all of Obama's rules in Syria — and it seems to be working
As US President Donald Trump enjoyed chocolate cake with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago in April, he ordered the military to do something his predecessor hadn't da...
By Nicholas Heras
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At the Comey hearings, some of the most revealing questions came from women
Images of female members of parliament winning a historic number of seats in the British elections Thursday stood in stark contrast to the mostly male images coming out of Was...
By Katherine Kidder
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The United States Is Getting Dragged Into the Fight for Syria’s South
AMMAN, Jordan — In recent months, the Syrian war finally seemed to be tilting in the direction of Muhannad al-Talla, the commander of a U.S.-backed rebel force. His group, Mag...
By Nicholas Heras
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In Nod to China, South Korea Halts Deployment of THAAD Missile Defense
North Korea fired four anti-ship cruise missiles into the waters between Korea and Japan on Thursday morning, just a day after the new president of South Korea put the brakes ...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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Trump's Qatar Curveball Makes Tillerson Improvise Policy Again
As the Qatar crisis erupted this week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson found himself performing a familiar task: assuring the world his boss didn’t mean to reverse years...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
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No competition, no cost estimate as Kansas City firm picked for coveted VA contract
The Trump administration picked Kansas City-based Cerner Corp. for a coveted contract to modernize veterans health records, but the news came with a caveat: There will be no c...
By Phillip Carter
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Artificial Stupidity: Fumbling The Handoff From AI To Human Control
Science fiction taught us to fear smart machines we can’t control. But reality should teach us to fear smart machines that need us to take control when we’re not ready. From P...
By Paul Scharre
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US defense leaders offer Asia reassurances in age of Trump
Defense Secretary James Mattis and numerous other U.S. lawmakers addressed allies concerned about U.S. policy in the South China Sea region this week. In Singapore, Mattis vo...
By Patrick M. Cronin
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What We Know (and Don’t Know) About Trump’s Hand in Military Matters
Roll Call's White House correspondent John T. Bennett talks to Paul Scharre, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank, about President Donald Trump...
By Paul Scharre
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Exclusive: Trump Officials Studying Obama's Security Plan in Case Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push Works
In the first weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump entered the White House, his special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Jason Greenblatt, held a number of me...
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US faces struggle to ease nervous Asian allies’ fears of a retreat
When James Mattis speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, the US defence secretary will face a very different landscape from the one that greeted his prede...
By Mira Rapp-Hooper