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More Mosul obstacles; Syrian troops clash with Kurds; Soldier helps foil attack in Denmark; Palestine’s ninjas; and just a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Pow-wow in the Gulf; B-52s head back to war; China’s Xi dons a uniform; More Russian subs go to sea; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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US-Saudi relations get complicated; Death toll rises in Kabul; How to retake a booby-trapped city; DoD’s 5-year plan still exceeds spending cap; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Retaking A Booby-Trapped City, With US Help

Several months after Iraqi troops flushed ISIS from Ramadi, the work of making the city safe is just beginning.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
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Deadly raid in Kabul; US force in Iraq passes 4,000; How to head off a US-China arms race; What’s new in smart fabrics; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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The cyber war on ISIS; More US troops to Iraq?; Syrian ceasefire, not so much; What’s broken on F-35 now; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Dueling visits in the South China Sea; NorK missile blows up; Many USMC aircraft can’t fly; The problem with hypersonics; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Russian Flybys? NATO’s Baltic Allies Wanted Air Defenses A Year Ago

In an interview, Lithuania’s defense minister said the harassment of an American warship shows why the US should help build the region's missile defenses.

  • Kevin Baron
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US expands Philippines ops; That Russian fly-by; McMaster launches Russia study; ISIS defections rise; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Another plan to arm Syrian rebels; Squeezing ISIS’ cash flow; Next USAF chief a non-pilot?; Dispatches from the Space Symposium; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Boko Haram Has Stepped Up Its Use of Children as Suicide Bombers—and Most Are Girls

The group's suicide bombings involving children have jumped eleven fold within in the last two years, according to UNICEF.

  • Yomi Kazeem, Quartz
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Back to the Philippines; NW Syria heats up; Afghan fighting season starts early; How to defuse the South China Sea; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Carter, India, & armed UAVs; NorK’s big-deal engine test; Navy officer charged with spying; Yemen blows another ceasefire; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Marine on tap to lead AFRICOM; ‘Marshall Plan’ for the Mideast?; Navy christens a ghost ship; How DoD is like Enron; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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More fire bases in Iraq?; Say no to a special nuke fund; FBI surveillance planes, tracked; Arms bazaars on Facebook; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Rebels down 2nd Syrian plane; Grim catalogue of Russian airstrikes; Once-a-generation Pentagon reorg looms; A ‘revolutionary’ infantry weapon; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Flareup in Azerbaijan; Global defense spending drifts up; Who runs US cyberdefense?; F-35s to Alaska; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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'Waves' of violence hit Iraq; Fallout from ‘cooked intel’; Dramatic leak details corrupt leaders hiding billions; Army wants pocket drones; and a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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How Bad Would A Radiological Terror Attack Be?

An interactive map shows a wide variation of outcomes for “nuclear terrorism.”

  • Keturah Hetrick
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ISIS’ bomb college; Carter in Boston; China may put nukes on a hair trigger; Jeep hits F/A-18; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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