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Shares The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) provides highly trained, disciplined and fit air assault forces and serves as the only Air Assault Division in the world; capable of dicsriminate, agile, and adaptive operations to engage the enemy forces ro …  (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) The Screaming Eagles are one of the most deployed and recognized Divisions in the U.S. Army, with a combat record spanning from the paratroopers of World War II to the Security Force Assistance Teams deployed i...

DeWine orders flags lowered in honor of fallen Ohio soldier 10TV Web Staff © Provided by WBNS Columbus Governor Mike DeWine has ordered that U.S. and state flags be flown at half-staff for an Ohio soldier killed in Egypt last year. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Kyle McKee, a native of Lake County, was killed on Nov. 12, 2020 in a helicopter crash in Egypts Sinai region.   McKee was overseas serving as a UH-60 helicopter repairer assigned to the Multinational Force and Observers mi...

On the forty-sixth anniversary of its fifteen-year civil war, Beirut again is on the brink of collapse. The bloody civil conflict that swept Lebanon on this day in 1975 resulted in more than 150,000 fatalities and 300,000 injuries. Tens of thousands of people currently remain displaced within Lebanon. Although the regional and international context that contributed to the civil conflict is different today, Lebanon again is in crisis. The power vacuum that allowed Hezbollah to seize control i...

Dr. Andrei Lankov,  director of Korea Risk Group and professor of history at Kookmin University, will participate in the discussion. Mason Richey, Asia Society Koreas senior contributor and associate professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, will moderate the conversation. This event is open to the audience by invitation only.  About the Guest Speakers Gen. (Ret.) In-Bum Chun Lieutenant General (Ret.) In-Bum Chun is a graduate of the Korea Military Academy in 1977. As aide to the ...

A Czech member of the U.S.-led multinational peacekeeping force in Sinai was one of the seven peacekeepers killed in a helicopter crash over Tiran Island in Sinai on Thursday. The Czech Republic is mourning its first woman killed in a foreign mission. The UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter of the U.S.-led Multinational Force and Observers was on a routine monitoring mission over Tiran Island when it crashed. Five Americans, a French national and one Czech – 27-year-old Sergeant Michaela Tichá – d...

President Biden during his tightly orchestrated press conference on March 25th was asked if we will get out of Afghanistan by May 1 st of this year. He obfuscated and muttered, “It is not my intention to stay there for a long time. We will leave. The question is when we leave.” Truth be told, the three previous occupiers of the White House never intended to win in Afghanistan. Biden has now assumed that failed agenda. Why would we go to war, fight, lose lives, and expend largely unaccounted...

April 3, 2021 5:02 pm 20 Fijian peacekeepers in Sinai under 2FIR have tested positive for COVID-19. Speaking exclusively to FBC News, Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Rear Admiral Viliame Naupoto says there is an outbreak of COVID-19 within the Multinational Force and Observers mission in Egypt. Rear Admiral Naupoto says the troops are asymptomatic and are in isolation. Article continues after advertisement The RFMF Commander adds information received is that 31 other peacekee...

65 shares Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the McKesson distribution center in Olive Branch, Mississippi, Dec. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool) Israel is renewing a plan to supply surplus coronavirus vaccines to a group of friendly nations, the Kan public broadcaster reported on Monday. The report came two weeks after the effort was halted by legal officials, who said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not have the authority to auth...

The decision to supply excess vaccines comes amid controversy over Israel’s vaccine distribution. On Thursday, Defense Minister Benny Gantz called for a halt in the shipments, saying Israel’s stockpile of vaccines is the property of the state. He attacked the prime minister’s go-it-alone approach and questioned Netanyahu’s claims that there are really excess supplies when Israelis still have not been fully vaccinated. Israel’s Justice Ministry put a freeze on a plan that reportedly wo...

Israel will provide the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) based in Egypts Sinai peninsula with coronavirus vaccines. A request from the US to provide the MFO with some 2,400 vaccines was r...