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"When something like this happens ... Life will take a 180, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing."

"Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace to the area," President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday

"Given this history, we submit that the suffering inflicted on Chief Gallagher and his family as a result of this case far exceeds what is appropriate for a charge of posing for a photo with a dead terrorist."

America's Kurdish allies will now find themselves at the mercy of Erdoğan, a man who labeled "the world's largest stateless nation" as a terrorist insurgency that threatens his iron fist.

According to the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineers, about 7,700 pounds of explosive fuses and flash powder were detonated Sept. 9 at the Avon Park Air Force Range

Bombs away.

In the past week, 110 Iraqis have died and 6,000 were wounded

Asim Umar, the chief of Al-Qaeda on the Indian Subcontinent, was killed in a joint U.S.-Afghan raid last month that also killed 40 civilians

"But no matter what you do, it's devastating. The parents will never be the same. The families will never be the same. People are killed. Many people are still being killed. It's going to go on that way for perhaps a long time."

The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals will reconsider the case of Stephen Begani, a retired Navy chief petty officer who faced a court-martial after leaving the military. The court also withdrew its July 31 opinion on court-martialing retirees, according to an Oct. 1 order

"I don't know who would be blindsided at the Pentagon. That surprises me that anyone would say that because this is something that was discussed among senior leadership here at the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon. So, I don't know how anyone could be blindsided."

HBD, Operation Enduring Freedom.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman stressed the Defense Department does "not endorse" any Turkish military incursion into Syria.

The exercise includes a total of 37,000 troops — including 20,000 US and service members from 18 other countries

For the second time in 10 months, President Donald Trump has acquiesced to Turkish demands to move U.S. forces out of the way of a planned offensive against the Kurdish fighters who have fought and died alongside U.S. troops to destroy ISIS's former caliphate in Syria

In the wake of escalating violence in Iraq, the resignation of the country's prime minister may be imminent, Task & Purpose has learned.

Over 4,000 dogs are honored at the Vietnam War Dog Team Memorial.

One of the primary ways Trump has called into question the original whistleblower's credibility was by saying they had second-hand information.

"I like to be inside my head thinking about work."

At the direction of President Donald Trump, the U.S. military has ramped up the number of air and ground attacks against the Taliban, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday