JERUSALEM (AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve and accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent setbacks against the Islamic State, including ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will fall way short of meeting its goal of training 24,000 Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants by this fall, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday on Capitol ...

In all the plans for redefining strategy in Iraq, there's one thing everyone agrees on: pumping up the number of U.S. combat advisors training Iraqi Security Forces. Even with talk of withdrawing ...

FORT BRAGG (WTVD) -- Several hundred 82nd Airborne soldiers will be coming home soon after nine months deployment to Iraq. Their mission there to advise and help train Iraqi troops fight ISIS forces, ...

A high-level defense delegation led by Commander Iraqi Air Force Lieutenant General Staff Pilot Mohanad Ghalib Mohammed Radi Al-Asadi called on Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu in Islamabad ...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE FALCON, Iraq — U.S. forces turned over command of one of the most dangerous sections of Baghdad to the Iraqi army on Monday — part of a gradual transition that would allow U.S.

The First Gulf War, which is often called the Persian Gulf War or referred to by its military name of Operation Desert Storm, began on January 17, 1991, in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. A ...