troop deployments

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani took office, he ushered in a period of hope for the country's traumatized and war-...

CAIRO (AP) — This is the fundamental contradiction, after Paris: Few in the West want to send ground troops to Syria and Iraq to battle the Islamic St...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military began deploying hundreds of troops in cities across the country on Wednesday to assist police forces in counteri...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday strongly defended Moscow's military assistance to the Syrian government, saying it's impossi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group gave only three options for the soldiers and police officers guarding Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, when t...