The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. by al Qaeda jihadists changed the future of security for not only Washington, but for nations on every inhabited continent worldwide — sparking the Global War on Terror that continues to this day. More than 20 years have passed since 19 hijackers boarded four commercial flights...
Washington and Baghdad are working on a plan to draw down the U.S. troop presence in Iraq as soon as next year. The U.S. and Iraq have reached an “understanding” on plans to have hundreds of U.S. troops leave Iraq by September 2025 and the remainder leave by January 2027, according to a new Reuters...
A joint operation by American and Iraqi forces killed 15 members of the Islamic State group in western Iraq, the U.S. military announced. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) tweeted on Friday that in the early hours of Thursday, Aug. 29, U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 15 ISIS operatives. The operatives were “armed with numerous weapons,...
Jennifer Horn was stunned when she saw herself transformed into a glamorous ‘40s bombshell for the first time. “I thought, ‘That doesn’t even look like me! Is this real?’” the Iraq War veteran gushed to Fox News Digital. “[But] female veterans are out there. We can be a badass on the field, then we can...
Five U.S. service members and two U.S. contractors were injured Monday afternoon when two rockets struck Ain al-Asad Airbase in Iraq, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Tuesday. Five of the injured personnel were being treated at Ain al-Asad Airbase, while two others have been evacuated for further care, the defense official said,...
Several U.S. personnel were injured in a suspected rocket attack at the Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq, according to U.S. defense officials. A U.S. defense official confirmed the suspected rocket attack to Fox News on Monday afternoon. According to Reuters, at least two Katyusha rockets were fired towards the base. Speaking to Fox...
There was a positive test for a banned substance at the Olympics before the opening ceremony even began. Sajjad Sehen’s first Olympic Games are over before they even started after the Iraqi judoka tested positive for metandienone and boldenone in a sample taken in Paris Tuesday. The 28-year-old was due to compete Tuesday but is...
Four rockets struck Thursday nearAin al-Asad airbase in Iraq, which houses U.S. troops, but there were no reported injuries, and there was no damage to the base, Fox News has learned. A U.S. defense official told Fox News none of the rockets landed inside the base. The attack comes just days after U.S. and Iraqi...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Friday that Iran could produce fissile nuclear material in “one or two weeks” as the State Department renews a sanctions waiver for Iraq to buy Iranian energy. Critics were quick to blame the Biden administration for enabling Iran to pursue nuclear weapons by allowing the rogue nation...
Evan Wright, the author of the book “Generation Kill,” who rose to prominence as a journalist when he embedded himself with the U.S. Marines during the Iraq War, has died at the age of 59. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office listed Wright’s cause of death on Friday as a gunshot wound to the...
