Tag: Troops

Jim W. Dean - After Turkey had promised Iraq it would not send more troops into Iraq without consulting Baghdad first, it has announced today that more troops are going in, to fight terrorism, but without permission. You just can't make this stuff up!

As Turkey faces international backlash over provocative actions, Ankara plans to expand its military footprint abroad.

Italian Prime Minister “Matteo Renzi” announced on Wednesday, that combat troops from his country are about to head to Iraq to participate in the confrontations with ISIS and the protection of Mosul Dam from failure, while noted that 450 soldiers will leave to Mosul after the Parliament approval.

The US has urged Turkey to respect the Iraqi sovereignty and territorial integrity and to draw back its “unauthorized” military forces from northern Iraq. US...

The US is to send some 10,000 troops to Iraq to provide support for a 90,000-strong force from the Gulf states, a leading Iraqi...

FATIH ŞEMSETTIN IŞIK ISTANBUL Editor's note:  The piece below is by a government controlled press outlet and gives Erdogan's version of events to which Baghdad and...

  TEHRAN (FNA)- Spokesman of Iraq's Volunteer Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi) Karim al-Nouri blasted Ankara for dispatching troops to the Northern parts of Iraq, and warned...

More than 100 Turkish military personnel have been deployed in the Mosul region in northern Iraq to provide training, various media have reported, citing Turkish security sources.

US Special Forces are being deployed to Iraq not only for an advisory mission, but also in order to combat ISIL, according to Colonel...

The Russian leader is set to mobilize 150,000 soldiers to Syria in order to wipe out ISIS and to join the west countries following...

Jim W. Dean - This Kuwayris air base recapture could be the lynchpin move for taking Aleppo if it can be quickly set up as a forward ground support facility. But it would have required a lot of logistics planning to do it.

Syrian troops have recaptured the strategic road into the government-held side of second city Aleppo from ISIS terrorist group fighters who had severed the route.

TEHRAN (FNA) - Senior Iraqi lawmakers strongly voiced their opposition to the US government's decision to dispatch forces to Iraq in line with Washington's...

The United States military believes that Iran has fewer than 2,000 troops in Syria fighting alongside government forces, said a top US general Tuesday.

Yemen’s army, backed by allied popular committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has destroyed a second Saudi warship in a missile attack in the southeast of the impoverished Arab country.

Not what the UAE had bargained for when they agreed to bail out the Saudis

Military cooperation between Syrian government troops and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) has been instrumental in pushing back Islamic State (ISIS) militants from the town of Hasaka in Syria’s northeast,

Recent intelligence received from highest level sources in the Russian government confirm that, in the meeting outlined below between Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov and Saudi Foreign Minister Adil Al-Jubayr, Saudi Arabia indicated that they are preparing to end all aid to ISIS and al Nusra

Gordon Duff..."Sec. of Defense Ash Carter just announced that a US Special Forces unit hit targets inside Western Syria last night killing Abu Sayyaf."

Gordon Duff..."Are we buying an election here?"