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The Columbian
November 25, 2017
... the tactical networking that soldiers have come to rely on in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... And it comes amid growing Pentagon concern that U.S. forces are losing their ... “I think what happened in Ukraine set off a lot of warning signals,” said one ... WIN-T allows soldiers in the field to track friendly and enemy ...
Stars and Stripes
November 23, 2017
Soldiers maintain communications while on patrol during the Army's Network ... tactical networking that soldiers have come to rely on in Afghanistan and Iraq. ... comes amid growing Pentagon concern that U.S. forces are losing their ... which has proven its electronic war-fighting edge in combat in Ukraine.
UNIAN
November 22, 2017
Russia invaded Crimea and sent troops and arms into eastern .... to Ukrainian government forces fighting Russian-backed separatists in the country's east. ... as well as on others regarding military action in Iraq and Syria. .... 12:00 Death toll in Iran from earthquake on Iraqi border rises to 328 – media.
Political Analysis South Africa
November 22, 2017
President Barack Obama on Friday urged Russia to stop “intimidating” Ukraine and to pull its troops back to “de-escalate the situation.” He told ...
The Hill
November 17, 2017
Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led coalition retook the last town in the country held by ... Iraqi Security Forces liberate Rawa, last urban area in Iraq held by ISIS. ... M deal to arm Ukraine against Russia Iraqi forces retake last ISIS-held town MORE also said ... That doesn't mean for certain troops are leaving.
Voice of America
November 15, 2017
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told the coalition the deal ... Her datelines include Ukraine, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea.
Scout
November 15, 2017
At least four TOS-1s were sold to Iraq in 2014, and they were first ... The battle was a victory for an Iraqi Shia militia, although how much the ... firing rockets in Ukraine, but the Ukrainian government claims they ... that leveled Donetsk International Airport, forcing Ukrainian forces to withdraw in January 2015.
Canada.com
November 14, 2017
Operation NABERIUS is a small contingent of soldiers, to be sure. ... “The major focus of the Canadian Armed Forces is overseas in ... in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine, there are Canadian forces in Latvia and Kosovo. ... Even as the government mulls over an additional 600 peacekeeping troops, ...
The National Interest Online
November 13, 2017
In support of these campaigns there have been special forces deployments to those countries. NATO member Turkey has deployed ground troops to both those neighbor countries, ... being directly and illegally invaded by NATO - Libya, Syria, Serbia and Iraq. ... So which part of Ukraine did Russia invade?
Scout
November 13, 2017
Because it would take three-to-six months to deploy U.S. forces ... Nevertheless, the exercise went ahead, and Russian troops appear to have ... Russian actions in Ukraine could be a sign of a broader aggressive or revisionist intent. ... Following on their study of Western military action in Iraq, Libya and the ...
Lawfare (blog)
November 2, 2017
Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger were “an ... Iraqi security forces said negotiations with Kurdish fighters over control of ... Last week, Iraq's prime minister halted military operations that seized ... and Anne Applebaum about her new book on the 1930s famine in Ukraine.
Salon
November 2, 2017
Those soldiers were — just as he feared of the Russian troops involved in ... the Baltics as well as Romania, Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia by name. ... forces have been employed in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, ...
Newsweek
November 1, 2017
Kiev, Ukraine—A Chechen woman who had fought on the side of Ukrainian forces against Russia and its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine ... the past year, which have targeted soldiers, journalists, and lawmakers. .... of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal's foreign correspondent based in Ukraine.
Voice of America
October 30, 2017
IS fighters had overrun large areas of northern Iraq in 2014. Reactions to Barzani's ... Independence vote led to clashes with Iraqi forces.
The Nation.
October 30, 2017
... trains Ukrainian soldiers during a joint military exercise in Ukraine. ... Those soldiers were—just as he feared of the Russian troops involved in .... forces have been employed in combat in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, ...
Newsweek
October 29, 2017
Kiev, Ukraine—Since 2014, Russia has used Ukraine as a testing ground for ... The Ukrainian government recently has been attacked by ... wage psychological warfare against an adversary's military forces. ... “There is only one internet, and one cyberspace, inhabited by all of the world's citizens, soldiers, ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 28, 2017
Designed to punish Moscow for its actions in Ukraine and its interference in ... Kurdish forces and troops deployed by Iraq's central government.
Breaking Defense
October 27, 2017
So-called peer conflicts put far different demands on the forces than the regional ... and the Ukraine, ISIS conquests in Syria and Iraq, and China's increasing ... (ERI), which stopped the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe, expanded ... and asked for 14,000 more soldiers in his unfunded requirements list.
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 27, 2017
Ukraine expects Trump to approve lethal aid; State Dept. walking away form Africa; ... Speaking to U.S. troops, he underlined that point again. ... but “ultimately, our diplomats have to be backed up by strong soldiers and sailors, .... Iraqi Security Forces and Iranian-backed militias pushed further north in an ...
The Hill
October 25, 2017
Both forces have been trained and armed by the United States, and our military ... Modern Iraq — a European creation that made countrymen out of ancient ... When the already weak foundation of the Iraqi state began to crumble ... Levant, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, and other conflict zones like Ukraine.
The American Conservative
October 24, 2017
Hamdani, an urbane Iraqi Sunni, was the commander of one of Saddam's elite Republican ... six of his country's wars, and becoming acknowledged as one of the regime's most loyal soldiers. ... You need to redeploy your troops, Saddam said. ... There's a lesson there for Putin, both in Ukraine and in Syria.
New Statesman
October 24, 2017
How Iraq crushed the Kurds' dream of independence ... Instead, we met advancing Iraqi government forces – armoured ... region of Iraqi Kurdistan, had made a deal with these government troops and withdrawn hours earlier. ... Iraqi soldiers, police and allied Shia militias had been amassing south of the ...
TheChronicleHerald.ca
October 15, 2017
With more than 800 Canadian troops presently deployed in what is still ... and the initial 200 Canadian special forces troops deployed on the ground would ... No one wanted to acknowledge that this meant our soldiers were on the ... direct military support of Iranian-mentored Iraqi Shiite Arab militias with a ...
Foreign Affairs
October 11, 2017
Because Russia and Ukraine share a border, Putin can send forces ... Indeed, even the advocates for arming Ukraine disavow any intention to send American troops to ... Yet in a speech at West Point in September, Ukrainian President ... In Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, adversaries didn't ...
BBC News
October 5, 2017
Russian soldiers' posts have revealed forces deployed to Ukraine and Syria. ... only the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, but also the Russian forces allied ... is switched on, and that could reveal the exact location of troops.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Russia has been honing its hybrid warfare playbook in Ukraine for almost four years. ... its military forces and doubling its ranks to 150,000 soldiers. ... of Russian regular troops and mercenaries,” Klimkin, the Ukrainian ... Nolan Peterson, a former special operations pilot and a combat veteran of Iraq and ...
Digital Journal
December 31, 1999
Tensions rise between Serbia, Ukraine over 'mercenaries' ... The conflict between Russia-backed fighters and Ukrainian troops in the ... when pro-Russian forces occupied parts of eastern Ukraine and ... Dozens from Muslim-majority regions of Serbia also left in recent years to join jihad in Syria and Iraq.
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
As Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine nears its fifth calendar ... where Ukrainian forces remain in combat against a combined force of ... This November, after 43 months of nonstop combat, Ukrainian troops remain hunkered down in ... Last winter, Ukrainian political activists and volunteer battalion soldiers ...
Eurasia Daily
December 31, 1999
It appears that Pavel Talabani's order to withdraw troops was a good ... Let's further make fun of masterpieces of Ukrainian defense industry… ... ready to agree on creation of Iraq and Kurdistan confederation and Kurds will not be ... On October 9, a member of Iraqi Kurdistan Council of Political Leadership ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
Kiev, Ukraine—I've experienced our country's wars both as a combatant and a witness. I deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq while I was an Air Force special operations pilot, ... It took the deaths of four Special Forces soldiers and a political feud to make ... When the troops return we dutifully call them heroes.
Daily Signal
December 31, 1999
KYIV, Ukraine—I've experienced our country's wars both as a combatant and a witness. I deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq while I was an Air Force special operations pilot, ... Then-President Barack Obama sent U.S. troops to Niger in ... It took the deaths of four Special Forces soldiers and a political feud to ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
31, 2015, four Ukrainian National Guard troops were killed during ... war in eastern Ukraine—where Ukrainian military forces have been ... of Iraq and Afghanistan, is The Daily Signal's foreign correspondent based in Ukraine.
Consortium News
March 24, 2017
One of the attack lines that Democrats have used against Trump is that his people toned down language in the Republican platform about shipping arms to the Ukrainian military, which includes battalions of neo-Nazi fighters and has killed thousands of ...
smallwarsjournal
March 22, 2017
As the world saw in the various iterations of the 2011 Arab Spring, including Syria, or the 2013 Ukrainian Euromaidan demonstrations, technology continuously grows in its role connecting populations during a civil protest.
Newsweek
March 22, 2017
At Wednesday's meeting, Tillerson said the United States would set up "interim zones of stability" to help refugees return home in the next phase of the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq but he did not make clear where these ...
Stars and Stripes
March 22, 2017
The remains of homemade Islamic State drones captured by Iraqi special forces in Mosul, Iraq, pictured on Monday, Jan. ... The Pentagon, concerned about the danger that small, armed drones pose to U.S. troops, is moving forward with a project that ...
Department of Defense
March 21, 2017
MISSION. The mission of the Department of Defense is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country.
Los Angeles Times
March 20, 2017
U.S. aircraft and other units are deeply involved in supporting Iraqi troops that are carrying out the ground assault. Abadi spoke at the United States Institute of Peace, a congressionally supported think tank.
Los Angeles Times
March 18, 2017
Abadi said he had seen no "blueprint" of U.S. plans for Iraq and had received no new concrete commitments of aid, and he warned that Islamic State would take more than battlefield victories.
BuzzFeed News
March 18, 2017
Ukrainian law enforcement officers stand guard as activists of nationalist groups gather to support participants of a blockade, which recently stopped rail shipments from separatist-controlled areas and was initiated to mark the Ukrainian Military ...
The Atlantic
March 17, 2017
A man walks along a damaged avenue in west Mosul, Iraq, on March 14, 2017, as Iraqi forces continue to advance in the embattled city combating ISIS fighters.
World Socialist Web Site
March 17, 2017
Canada's media is well aware of the extreme right-wing forces in and around the Ukrainian government and the role that fascist militia have played as "shock troops" in the war against pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine. Occasionally, when these ...
Los Angeles Times
March 15, 2017
Abadi said he had seen no "blueprint" of U.S. plans for Iraq and had received no new concrete commitments of aid, and he warned that Islamic State would take more than battlefield victories.
Washington Examiner
March 15, 2017
IS RUSSIA PULLING A SYRIA IN LIBYA? The U.S. is watching warily as Russia appears to be positioning forces to possibly intervene in Libya, a fractured country with a barely working "Government of National Accord.
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 13, 2017
The situation in northern Syria is becoming increasingly unpredictable with American, Russian, Turkish and Syrian troops - along with local Kurdish and Arab militias of varying allegiances - swirling between the cities of al Bab and Manbij.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 13, 2017
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Hurriyet Daily News
March 13, 2017
Gendarmerie forces also detained one Ukrainian, one Iraqi and two other people as suspected human traffickers.
CBC.ca
March 11, 2017
"There are casualties every day, soldiers and civilians. A lot of ... According to UN figures, at least 10,000 people have been killed, including 2,000 civilians, and another 23,000 injured in the fighting between the Ukrainian military and the ...
New Jersey Herald
March 3, 2017
WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite his promises of a no-holds-barred administration, President Donald Trump is tiptoeing around U.S. military engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, and dialing back the threats of abandoning allies. It seems ... It's a goal Trump ...
The Washington Diplomat
March 1, 2017
Herbst, who was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006, noted that for three days, as fighting raged in eastern Ukraine that killed over two dozen civilians and soldiers, "the administration said only that, 'We're concerned about this.' Only on ...
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