March 18, 2016
1:34 am

US army personnel ride in a truck inside an Afghan military base during fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Kunduz on October 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Wakil Kohsar)

US troops said punished over Afghan hospital attack

Pentagon due to publish redacted version of its report on Kunduz attack that killed 42 last October

By AFP

December 28, 2015
4:50 am

Illustrative: A CV-22 Osprey aircraft of the 8th Special Operations Squadron (SOS) at Hurlburt Field, Florida, January 26, 2011. (AP/US Air Force, Master Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock)

More and more, special forces become Obama’s military answer

From the web In Afghanistan, Syria and Cameroon, White House seen increasingly relying on small deployments of elite troops to quell crises, The New York Times reports

December 24, 2015
5:25 am

This photo provided by Arlene Wagner and taken in October 2015 shows her son, Air Force Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, killed December 21, 2015 in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, at Bub and Pops, the sandwich shop Wagner and her other son Jonathan Taub run in downtown Washington, DC. (Arlene Wagner/AP)

US Jewish airman among 6 killed in Afghanistan suicide attack

Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, 30, was preparing to return home to help run the family restaurant, his mother says

By JTA

December 24, 2015
3:16 am

Sofia Yassini, 8, poses for a photo outside a mosque in Richardson, Texas, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

US soldiers tell fearful Muslim-American girl, ‘I will protect you’

Sofia Yassini, 8, started packing her bags after hearing Donald Trump urge registration, migration freeze for Muslims

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

November 3, 2015
12:23 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic fundraiser at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York, November 2, 2015. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Obama: Special ops in Syria not a change in policy

US leader says growing ground deployment against Islamic State won’t lead to Iraq War-style ‘battalions and occupations’

By AP and Times of Israel staff

November 1, 2015
4:11 am

In this Oct. 27, 2015, photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the 122nd International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama crosses own red line with Syrian deployment

A president who campaigned to end US involvement in Mideast wars finds himself escalating troop numbers in Iraq, Syria

By Julie Pace

September 9, 2015
11:29 pm

Egyptian army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle, backed by a helicopter gunship, during a sweep through villages in the northern Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, in May 2013. (AP)

US bolsters protection for Sinai peacekeepers

Officials say 75 more troops being deployed, and surveillance equipment is provided, after 4 soldiers hurt in bombing

By AP

September 4, 2015
6:13 am

Smoke rises following an explosion in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, as seen from the Israel-Egypt border, near Kerem Shalom in southern Israel, July 1, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Pentagon says 6 peacekeepers injured in Sinai explosions

Soldiers airlifted for treatment after being injured by IEDs; not in life-threatening danger

By AP and AFP

December 26, 2014
4:55 am

Illustrative photo of a shipment of MRAPs -- mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles (photo credit: US Army/Sgt. Mark B. Matthews, 27th Public Affairs Detachment/Wikimedia)

US stockpiles matériel ahead of major anti-IS offensive in Iraq

Military sending equipment, gear out of Afghanistan to Kuwait as likely spring mission against jihadists gathers pace

By Times of Israel staff and AP

November 14, 2012
8:24 pm

Former defense minister Ehud Barak, center, speaks to US soldiers during a joint Israeli-hosted military exercise, October 23, 2012 (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90/File)

US, Israel successfully wrap up three-week military exercise

Austere Challenge 2012 involved more than 2,500 American service personnel and 1,000 Israeli soldiers

October 24, 2012
4:45 pm

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney shake hands at Monday night's foreign policy debate, while moderator Bob Schieffer looks on (photo credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Full text: Obama-Romney foreign policy presidential debate

Hopefuls mention Israel 31 times in course of third and final confrontation

September 1, 2012
8:18 am

Arrow anti-ballistic missiles (Photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash 90)

US scales down joint military drill with Israel

Reduction in Austere Challenge 12 spells mistrust, says official in Jerusalem; it’s our largest-ever ballistic missile defense exercise, counters US

By Yifa Yaakov and Aaron Kalman

Topic: US troops