On Monday, the highest-ranking US military official issued a warning to Iran, urging them to stay out of the Israel crisis and expressing a desire to prevent the conflict from escalating further. This caution came as the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into northern ...

The United States says it continues to keep up relentless focus on countering terrorism including in Afghanistan to combat Al Qaeda and Daesh. Speaking at International Institute for Strategic Studies' Manama Dialogue 2021 held in Bahranian capital, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said we must ...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban-linked violence may escalate following the end of a three-day Eid ceasefire, believes the top US general in Afghanistan. They were keeping an eye on Taliban’s activities following the ceasefire that ended, said Gen. Scott Miller, the US military commander in ...

Top US general met with Taliban negotiators in Doha, Qatar this week to discuss the reduction of violence in Afghanistan, according to a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) statement released Thursday. Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of JCS, along with negotiators from the Special Representative for ...

On Wednesday, former US Navy SEAL Adm. William McRaven noted the “gap is narrowing” between the US and China technologically, referring to it as a “holy s**t” moment. He advises that if the US doesn’t double down on science and technology education and act decisively to forestall ...

*ISLAMABAD: The United States Central Command (Centcom) commander General Kenneth McKenzie Jr, along with his 17-member defence delegation, have arrived in Pakistan on an important visit.* *Besides Afghan Taliban peace deal, latest indo Pak military tensions over Occupied Kashmir are also going ...

WASHINGTON: The Taliban must ensure that Afghanistan does not become a sanctuary for extremists before the United States withdraws troops, the top US general said Wednesday. “I’m not using the ‘withdrawal’ word right now,” General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ...

WASHINGTON - Former US General cautions US over withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. A retired US Army general David Petraeus has suggested that the United States should not abandon Afghanistan as it did Iraq by withdrawing all its troops from the country. In an article link in the Wall Street ...

WASHINGTON - A group of former US generals, ambassadors and senior government executives have warned the US administration that a war with Iran will have immense financial, human and geopolitical cost. The group in a letter addressed to U.S. President Donald Trump, expressed deep concern over the ...

The top US general in the Middle East has said he disagrees with President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria. Talking to CNN, Gen Joseph Votel said that Islamic State militants are still active in Syria and US-backed forces are not yet capable of handling the threat alone. He told the ...