Shawn Snow
Early Bird Editor
Shawn Snow is the senior reporter for Marine Corps Times and a Marine Corps veteran.
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Special operators will be countering violent extremists for the ‘long haul’
The commander of SOCOM said battling violent extremists groups will remain the number one priority for American commandos.
High-stakes airstrike in Syria: Pro-Assad militia threatens US troops in defiance of Russia
Officials described the incident as a security breach that posed imminent danger to US personnel near the border with Iraq and Jordan.
Supreme Court rules in veteran's favor in closely watched divorce settlement case
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday, in the case of Howell v. Howell, that a state court cannot offset the loss of a divorced spouse’s portion of a veteran's retirement benefits when that veteran waives retirement pay in favor of disability pay. The issue has been hotly debated for years.
US to provide Afghanistan with up to 159 Black Hawks to help break 'stalemate'
With the first delivery expected in about 21 months, will it be too little, too late?
In Turkey, new demands to evict US forces from Incirlik Air Base
It's an unlikely outcome, experts say, but a clear sign of how dramatically relations have soured between the NATO allies.
No, the Pentagon is not supplying Syrian Kurds with Abrams tanks
The Trump administration's controversial decision this week to arm the YPG set off a wave of propaganda.
Officials: Troop buildup in Jordan is not for an invasion of southern Syria
A massive buildup of U.S., British and Jordanian armored vehicles at the Zarqa Jordanian military base near the Syrian border — depicted in photos that have been circulating on social media — is for an annual training exercise called Eager Lion, not preparations for an invasion of southern Syria, according to officials at U.S. Central Command.
US weapons will soon flow to Kurds as they isolate ISIS fighters in Raqqa
Kurdish factions within the Syrian Democratic Forces will soon be getting U.S. arms for their battle with the Islamic State in Syria, according to officials in Baghdad.
Syrian Kurds are now armed with sensitive US weaponry, and the Pentagon denies supplying it
The development is likely to infuriate Turkey and could prove problematic for the Trump administration.
US forces seen operating near terrorist-designated PKK forces
U.S. forces conducting patrols to deter aggression between Turkish forces and Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces, both partners in the fight against the Islamic State, were photographed at a funeral April 29 where flags of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a U.S.-designated terror group, could be seen in the crowd.
