global war on terror

For a time before Sept. 11, 2001, America seemed invincible.

“This trend is deeply alarming."

“We both have a little more grey hair."

He told the FBI that "if his Army unit was involved in combat with ISIS fighters, he would betray his unit and join the ISIS fighters."

The U.S. military will still be able to carry out counterterrorism strikes within Somalia.

The circumstances surrounding Christopher Maier’s departure remain murky.

The United States' top envoy to the multinational military coalition to defeat ISIS claimed in a recent interview that he routinely lied to senior government officials about U.S. troops levels in Syria

French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda's North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday

As far as I’m concerned, 'Battle: Los Angeles' is the greatest post-9/11 military movie. Here's why

The U.S. military has been quietly taking out terrorist leaders in Syria with a modified Hellfire missile packed full of swords

"This book is not about the 160th or me, they are stories about our tribe, trials, and tribulations on and off the battlefield."

"This book is not about the 160th or me, they are stories about our tribe, trials, and tribulations on and off the battlefield."

"We fought the righteous fight, and some of us will remain forever young."

The United States is expected to reduce its troops presence in Iraq by about a third in the coming months, a U.S. official said on Friday, a move that had been expected after President Donald Trump's administration committed to a reduction recently

It's been nearly three years since President Donald Trump first declared victory over ISIS, but there are still more than 10,000 ISIS fighters currently active in Iraq and Syria, according to a UN official

"Despite continued U.S. airstrikes in Somalia ... al Shabab appears to be a growing threat."

More than 10,000 ISIS fighters currently imprisoned in Syria by the U.S. military's allies in the country are on the brink of a "mass breakout," according to Defense Department's top watchdog

Clashes between Afghan forces and Taliban militants killed dozens nationwide over the past 24 hours, authorities said on Wednesday, even as the United States tries to broker peace talks between the warring sides

As the Global War on Terror enters its 19th year, new research underscores how different states are bearing the human costs of the forever wars

The U.S. military in Africa claims it killed a senior leader of al-Shabaab in an airstrike on Saturday, nearly two months after an attack in Manda Bay, Kenya that left one U.S. soldier and two American contractors dead

The United States successfully targeted and killed the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in airstrike in late January, the White House confirmed on Thursday

In a series of bloody campaigns from 2014 to 2019, a multinational military coalition drove ISIS out of much of the Iraqi and Syrian territory that the strict militant theocracy had brutally governed. But the Pentagon and the United Nations both estimate that the group still has as many as 30,000 active insurgents in the region — and many more beyond

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that U.S. strategic goals could include drawing down troops in Africa despite French pleas that American support is "critical" to countering the growing strength of terror groups in the region with links to the Islamic State and al Qaeda

"It's kind of a representation, a quick little snapshot of these service members' identity, their life-changing experience that they went through together."

The United States plans on ramping up counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel region of Africa in response to an alarming rise in violent extremism there, Foreign Policy reports