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I sounded the alarm on burn pits — now I see smoke at the VA
The impact of VA Secretary Collins' staffing cuts remains hazy, not unlike the downwind side of a burn pit, Dan Clare of DAV argues in this op-ed.
By Dan Clare
South Korea, US sign cost-sharing deal for American troops
South Korea and the United States struck a new deal Sunday that increases Seoul’s contribution for the cost of the American military presence on its soil, overcoming previous failed negotiations that caused worries about their decades-long alliance.
Plan for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan takes shape — but will it stick?
The U.S. and the Taliban have agreed ‘in principle’ to withdraw U.S. forces, but a final peace deal is still a long ways off, the U.S. envoy said Friday.
By Tara Copp, AP
Like Trump, troops say we should watch Iran — but maybe not by increasing our forces in Iraq
Today's troops are leery of Iran, but also skeptical of sending more troops to Iraq.
By Joshua Axelrod
US cuts military aid to Cameroon over human rights concerns
The United States said Wednesday it is cutting some military aid to Cameroon over human rights concerns after growing allegations of abuses by security forces, a significant step against a solid ally in central Africa that is gripped by fighting between the government and Anglophone separatists.
Cornered in Syria, ISIS lays groundwork for a new insurgency
The Islamic State gunmen came out of hiding in the middle of the night and set up a checkpoint on a rural road in eastern Syria. For several hours, they stopped those passing and searched through their mobile phones to check their allegiances, until they vanished again into the desert.
US, South Korea reach cost sharing agreement on troop presence
The previous agreement had expired in December; Trump had pushed for additional cost sharing.
By Tara Copp, AP
US forces should leave Afghanistan, even if a deal with the Taliban fails
The longest conflict in U.S. history finally may be drawing to a close, and it should come as no surprise that diplomacy is the avenue to its completion.
By Bonnie Kristian
Syrian Kurds say US seeking deal to prevent a Turkish attack after withdrawal
The United States is seeking to broker an agreement between Syrian Kurdish forces and Turkey to prevent them from going to war in northeastern Syria once American forces withdraw, a senior Kurdish official said.
US, Canadian fighter jets scramble to escort Russian bombers
The Russian strategic bombers were flying near the North American coastline.
Soldier is 3rd service member ID’d from 55 boxes of remains returned by North Korea
The remains of a U.S. soldier believed to have been captured by Chinese forces in North Korea in December 1950 and later died in a prisoner-of-war camp have been identified, officials said Thursday.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press