Joint Chiefs chairman calls Afghan war a 'strategic failure'Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the committee, when pressed, that it had been his personal opinion that at lea...
29 Sep, 2021, 09.54 AM IST
Top US military officer holds talks with Russian counterpartThe daylong session in the Finland's capital between Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Valery Gerasimo...
22 Sep, 2021, 04.02 PM IST
It was a mistake: Top US military commander on the drone strike in Kabul that claimed 7 childrenGen. McKenzie said that having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the probe and supporting analysis, he is convinced that as many as 10 ci...
18 Sep, 2021, 11.00 AM IST
US braces for more ISIS attacks after 85 killed in Kabul airport carnageU.S. forces are racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by an Aug. 31 deadline set by President Joe Biden, who says the United...
27 Aug, 2021, 11.16 AM IST
'Kill list': Report says US handed Taliban names of Americans to evacuateDays after Kabul fell to the Taliban, two suicide bombers and gunmen from the ISIS-K -- far more radical than the Taliban -- attacked crowd...
27 Aug, 2021, 09.04 AM IST
United States offers further air support to Afghan troops amid Taliban offensiveReeling from battlefield losses, Afghanistan's military is overhauling its war strategy against the Taliban to concentrate forces around th...
26 Jul, 2021, 02.38 PM IST
United States carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan: PentagonThe news of US airstrikes in Afghanistan came a day after America's most senior military officer admitted that the Taliban had gained “stra...
23 Jul, 2021, 12.26 PM IST
America's top commander in Afghanistan since 2018, Gen. Scott Miller, hands over commandAnother four-star general will assume authority from his U.S. post to conduct possible airstrikes in defense of Afghan government forces, a...
12 Jul, 2021, 07.26 PM IST
United States pullout from Afghanistan half done, but questions remainAs early as this week, the top US commander for the Middle East, Gen. Frank McKenzie, will give Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin a range of m...
08 Jun, 2021, 02.02 PM IST
As United States scales back in Mideast, China may step in: General Kenneth 'Frank' McKenzieFrom the dusty battlefields in Syria to the pummelled neighbourhoods in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, they worry that America's pivot to Asia mean...
24 May, 2021, 12.23 PM IST
CIA head William Burns said to have made unannounced trip to AfghanistanBurns recently told the U.S. Congress that neither al-Qaida nor Islamic State extremists have the ability to stage attacks against the U.S....
24 Apr, 2021, 11.52 AM IST
US exploring new bases in Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensionsUsing Yanbu, as well as air bases at Tabuk and Taif along the Red Sea, would give the American military more options along a crucial waterw...
26 Jan, 2021, 05.38 PM IST
Two American B-52H Stratofortress bombers fly to Middle East in mission to deter IranThe flight of the two massive B-52H Stratofortress bombers over the region, the second such mission in less than a month, was designed to u...
10 Dec, 2020, 07.46 PM IST
US troop pullouts in Middle East raise fears of Iranian attacksA senior US military official with knowledge of the region said on Monday that Iran may try to take advantage of America's troop withdrawal...
08 Dec, 2020, 08.20 AM IST
Trump planning to withdraw additional US troops from Iraq, say senior officialsThe planned announcements come as the president has been trying to make the case that he has fulfilled the promises he made four years ago ...
09 Sep, 2020, 08.24 AM IST
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