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November 29, 2021 at 7:00 pm

Pentagon Chief Orders New Inquiry Into U.S. Airstrike That Killed Dozens in Syria

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III on Monday ordered a new high-level investigation into a U.S.

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Ruins in the Syrian city of Raqqa, where the Islamic State group ruled from for three years before being driven out, June 3, 2018. A number of towns, including Raqqa, were reduced to little more than rubble during the U.S. air campaign against the Islamic State militants in northern Syria. (Ivor Prickett/The New York Times) XNYT63 XNYT63

November 29, 2021 at 12:48 pm

Pentagon chief orders new inquiry into U.S. airstrike that killed dozens in Syria

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III on Monday ordered a new high-level investigation into a U.S. airstrike in Syria in 2019 that killed dozens of...

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November 13, 2021 at 2:20 pm

How the U.S. hid an airstrike that killed dozens of civilians in Syria

The U.S. military never conducted an independent investigation into a 2019 bombing on the last bastion of the Islamic State, despite concerns about a secretive...

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October 24, 2021 at 10:50 am

A CIA Fighter, a Somali Bomb Maker, and a Faltering Shadow War

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The CIA convoy rolled out of Mogadishu in the dead of night, headed south along a crumbling ocean road that led deep...

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FILE — Mark Esper, then Defense Secretary, during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, Sept. 11, 2020. Esper was alarmed to learn of an idea under discussion at senior levels of the Pentagon and at the Department of Homeland Security to send as many as 250,000 troops to the border. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times) XNYT174 XNYT174

October 19, 2021 at 4:53 pm

Trump’s Pentagon chief quashed idea to send 250,000 troops to Mexico border

Around the same time that officials considered a huge deployment to the southern border, President Trump also pressed his top aides to send forces into...

September 13, 2021 at 4:29 pm

Pentagon defends deadly drone strike in Kabul

The Pentagon continued to assert Monday that the last U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan was necessary to prevent an attack on U.S. troops, despite a...

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September 12, 2021 at 7:49 pm

Afghan Pilots Who Sought Safety in Uzbekistan Transfer to U.S. Base

WASHINGTON — An initial group of Afghan pilots who flew themselves and their family members to safety in Uzbekistan aboard Afghan air force aircraft were...

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September 10, 2021 at 2:42 pm

Times investigation: In U.S. drone strike, evidence suggests no Islamic State bomb

KABUL, Afghanistan — It was the last known missile fired by the United States in its 20-year war in Afghanistan, and the military called it...

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August 26, 2021 at 5:20 pm

At least 13 U.S. troops among masses killed in Kabul suicide attacks

The bombings hint at new violence that may lie in store for a people who have suffered more than 40 years of warfare, as the...

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August 26, 2021 at 5:00 pm

After decades of war, ISIS and al-Qaida can still wreak havoc

The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan — known as Islamic State Khorasan or ISIS-K — is a bitter, albeit much smaller, rival that has carried...

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