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Promised there would be no Ground Troops used if iraq or syria. And shes gotten some criticism from people who say shes taking an important option off of the table here, anderson. She said that she would support american troops, Special Forces, doing reconnaissance assisting, indigenous or local forces and providing advisory roles which is the terminology currently used by the white house. Some also thought that by not acknowledging that some Special Forces are currently in combat situations in ...

Both candidates spent the day on the Campaign Trail clarifying some of their positions, doubling down on others and most definitely taking aim at each other. Our senior political correspondent, brianna keilar, joins us with the latest. Clinton spending today defending what she said last night. What did she focus on . Thats right. What she said last night, a promise, shes clearly sensitive to her iraq war vote still and promised there would be no Ground Troops used if iraq or syria. And shes gott...

The Biden administration is taking advantage of a lull in regional tensions to advance air and missile defense talks with GCC states, but the danger isn't over yet, as Pentagon officials worry Yemen's Houthi rebels can now reach the Mediterranean.

The Israeli military has relaunched operations in the northern city of Jabalia in the Gaza Strip over the past week as Hamas fighters have returned to fill a power vacuum left in swaths of the enclave.

The US-led Middle East Air Defense displayed great promise in its coordinated response to Iran's unprecedented drone and missile attack against Israel, but Tehran used just a fraction of its mid-range ballistic missiles.

US officials have spent years painstakingly convincing Arab leaders to share air defense intelligence. Iran’s massive barrage against Israel just proved their point.

As Iran threatens retaliation for a strike on its consulate in Syria last week and Israel vows to respond in kind, potentially caught in the middle are thousands of US troops at bases throughout Iraq, Syria and Gulf states.

As the Biden administration seeks to prevent further humanitarian catastrophe in Rafah, former US commanders told Al-Monitor there are key ways the Israeli military can shape an operation to protect civilians.

The Biden administration is seeking more support from Gulf states in a bid to shut down Houthi attacks on commercial shipping, but Saudi Arabia has restricted the US military from launching strikes in Yemen from bases on Saudi territory, leaving a US Navy aircraft carrier to shoulder the campaign in the Red Sea.

Syria’s Kurdish-led militia has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of attacks by Iran-backed militias amid tit-for-tat strikes between US forces and Iran’s proxies.