Tag: Jamie McIntyre

The report recommended the Army establish a rotation plan. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

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U.S. Army officers say NATO can’t deter Russia

Jamie McIntyre · May 13, 2016 5:07 pm

The system is a land-based variant of the Navy's ship-based AEGIS ballistic missile defense system. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Pentagon: U.S. missile shield in Romania aimed at Iran, not Russia

Jamie McIntyre · May 12, 2016 6:40 pm

Military officials said a "small number" of U.S. troops were in Somalia "advising and assisting" Ugandan troops who were conducting a raid against what was described as "an illegal taxation checkpoint" early Thursday morning west of the capital Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera, File)

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U.S. boots in Somalia call in airstrike against al Shabab

Jamie McIntyre · May 12, 2016 5:54 pm

The Pentagon said Monday that an Islamic State leader Abu Wahib was killed another with other operatives of the terrorist group in a May 6 airstrike in Iraq. (Screen shot)

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Pentagon claims another ISIS leader killed

Jamie McIntyre · May 9, 2016 6:41 pm

The advisers assist in planning operations against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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U.S. sends military advisers to Yemen

Jamie McIntyre · May 6, 2016 7:19 pm

Cook said al-Sudani was a planner who was involved in plotting attacks against the U.S., Canada and the U.K. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

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ISIS attack planner killed in April airstrike in Syria

Jamie McIntyre · May 5, 2016 6:41 pm

Briefers are increasingly drawing a distinction between "a combat situation" as opposed to plain "combat." (Capt. Charles Emmons, Headquarters, Resolute Support)

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Is ‘combat situation’ the new combat?

Jamie McIntyre · May 5, 2016 5:45 pm

It appears the Taliban are too busy harvesting a bumper crop of opium poppies to launch any offensives. (AP Photos/Allauddin Khan, File)

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Why the lull in Taliban attacks is a bad thing

Jamie McIntyre · May 5, 2016 5:41 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Wednesday defended the U.S. mission of enabling local forces in their fight against the Islamic State. (Jammie McIntyre/Examiner)

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Carter defends front-line combat role of troops in Iraq

Jamie McIntyre · May 4, 2016 12:23 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter presided over the meeting of the 12 largest troop-contributing nations in the fight against the Islamic State, which was held at the headquarters of the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. (Jamie McIntyre/Washington Examiner)

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Anti-ISIS meeting warns Iraq to get its act together

Jamie McIntyre · May 4, 2016 10:52 am

A B-52 bomber, shown here as it flies over South Korea, bombed an area where a Navy SEAL was killed by Islamic State fighters, and killed about 40 of those fighters, according to U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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U.S. airstrikes kill 58 ISIS fighters at Iraqi village where SEAL died

Jamie McIntyre · May 4, 2016 10:04 am

Carter delivers warning to Russia

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Carter delivers warning to Russia

Jamie McIntyre · May 3, 2016 3:35 pm