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Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The U.S. military acknowledged it has closed an outpost in southern Syria in recent days amid reports that American forces and their contingent of Syrian proxies had [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff OSLO, Norway -- The Pentagon is taking additional steps to ensure that U.S. and Russian battlefield commanders are able to directly communicate with one another after an [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff TIRANA, Albania - Even though President Donald Trump announced his strategy for the war in Afghanistan in August, the Pentagon and NATO are still trying to map [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The fire that engulfed a Marine armored vehicle Wednesday, injuring 14 Marines and one sailor during a training exercise in California, appears to have been caused by [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Eight Special Forces students and instructors were injured in an explosion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Thursday, the U.S. Army said. The incident comes just a [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff An image posted to a Pentagon media site and tweeted by Scottish journalist Ian Keddie, shows the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, returning to her [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff As Florida prepares for a direct hit from Hurricane Irma, a deadly Category 4 storm with 150 mph sustained winds, the U.S. military has launched an amphibious [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff As the Islamic State battles to hold what remains of its capital in Syria, the terror group - as it did during the fight for Mosul - [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff A member of U.S. Special Operations forces climbs down from a compound wall during a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers in Shewan, a former Taliban [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff As Tropical Storm Harvey continues to dump thousands of gallons of water across southern Texas and parts of Louisiana, the U.S. military - including the Coast Guard [...]

Byline: Alex Horton and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Constant deployments, a shrinking number of ships and high demands on crews have frayed the U.S. Navy, according to naval experts and current and [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Alex Horton After more than 80 hours of searching thousands of miles of open sea, the U.S. Navy now hopes only to recover the bodies lost [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff President Donald Trump's speech this week announcing his decision to extend the U.S. war in Afghanistan provided no detail on exactly what new American troops will do [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff CAMP SHORAB, Afghanistan - In Marine Brig. Gen. Roger B. Turner Jr.'s office on this small, dusty base, there is a leather couch, a map of Helmand [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Anne Gearan President Donald Trump's decision to continue military operations in Afghanistan, with a probably modest increase in U.S. troops, is an incremental shift in strategy [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Ellen Nakashima WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has directed that U.S. Cyber Command, the Pentagon's offensive cyber-force, will become its own unified military command in a [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff President Donald Trump has directed that Cyber Command - which is currently a part of the National Security Agency - will become its own unified military command [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The Pentagon has identified the U.S. Army Green Beret who was killed Wednesday battling Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Aaron R. Butler, 27, of [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff CAMP MOREHEAD, Afghanistan - The Afghan military will begin expanding its elite commando units in the coming weeks, Afghan officials and military officers said, in a bid [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff KABUL - It is a warm August morning here and Capt. Jawid Karimi, a pilot in the Afghan air force, is going over his flight plan for [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck and Thomas Gibbons-Neff BEIRUT -- As U.S.-backed forces in Syria inch their way through Raqqa, once the Islamic State's de facto capital and staunchest stronghold, their battle [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Brian Murphy Australian navy divers began work Monday to recover a U.S. military aircraft that went down two days ago, leaving three Marines presumed dead. A [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The Marine Corps announced Saturday night that it was suspending a search for three Marines who were missing after an MV-22 Osprey went down off the east [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Three people are missing after the Marine Corps aircraft they were aboard Saturday went down off the east coast of Australia. The MV-22 Osprey was conducting operations [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Three people are missing after the Marine Corps aircraft they were aboard went down off the east coast of Australia Saturday. The MV-22 Osprey was conducting operations [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff A contingent of U.S. troops are involved in a Yemeni operation to push al-Qaida militants from one of their key strongholds in central Yemen, the Pentagon said [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff WASHINGTON - The Pentagon on Thursday identified the two U.S. soldiers killed Wednesday in southern Afghanistan when their convoy was hit by a vehicle packed with explosives. [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff A NATO soldier was killed and six others, including a translator, were wounded when a suicide bomber attacked their patrol Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, marking the second [...]

Byline: Pamela Constable and Thomas Gibbons-Neff KABUL - Two American service members were killed Wednesday when a suicide bomber in a pickup truck attacked a NATO convoy that was returning [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The head of the Coast Guard said Tuesday he would not 'break faith' with transgender troops under his command, despite President Donald Trump's recent announcement that he [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff WASHINGTON - The Marine Corps has grounded its entire KC-130T fleet of cargo planes, the same type of aircraft that crashed earlier this month in western Mississippi, [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The Pentagon has made no change yet to its policy on transgender service members, the nation's highest-ranking military officer said in a letter Thursday, a day after [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The Trump administration struggled Thursday to explain the details of a ban on transgender service members announced a day earlier by the president, amid criticism from Republicans [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff It is still unclear what sparked the shootout that led to the deaths of three American soldiers at King Fasal Air Base in Jordan in November. What [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The sudden appearance of two large, rusty and barnacle-encrusted World War II-era munitions on the beaches of Cape Hatteras, N.C., this summer have puzzled the area's park [...]

Byline: Abby Phillip, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Mike DeBonis President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, [...]

Byline: Abby Phillip, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Dan Lamothe President Donald Trump said he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, a reversal of the Obama [...]

Byline: Abby Phillip and Thomas Gibbons-Neff President Donald Trump said he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, a reversal of the Obama administration decision [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff To carry out some of its bloodiest attacks, the Islamic State has weaponized everyday vehicles - from sedans to tractors - for use as precision-guided munitions. The [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Dan Lamothe Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has decided that the Pentagon will not give Pakistan the remainder of a key U.S. military reimbursement fund allotted [...]

Byline: Max Bearak and Thomas Gibbons-Neff KABUL, Afghanistan - A U.S. airstrike killed at least nine 'local security personnel aligned with Afghan Government forces,' a spokesman for the U.S. military [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Greg Jaffe WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will nominate Mark Esper, a top lobbyist for Raytheon and a former Army officer, as the next secretary of [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The U.S. air war in Afghanistan has returned to a level of intensity not seen since American forces were still fanned out across the country and fighting [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Alex Horton On Friday, the Marine Corps identified the names of the 15 Marines and one Navy sailor killed when their aircraft crashed earlier this week [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff A U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan earlier this week killed Abu Sayed, the leader of the Islamic State's offshoot there, U.S. officials said Friday. A Pentagon [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff A U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan earlier this week killed Abu Sayed, the leader of the Islamic State's offshoot there, U.S. officials said Friday. A Pentagon [...]

Byline: Louisa Loveluck and Thomas Gibbons-Neff IRBIL, Iraq - A leading human rights group urged Iraqi authorities to investigate allegations of abuse against alleged Islamic State fighters and their families, [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Louisa Loveluck After nine months of vicious street-to-street fighting to drive the Islamic State out of Mosul, it could take many years more to fully remove [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff The Marine Corps cargo plane that crashed in Mississippi, killing 16 earlier this week, appears to have suffered some sort of failure while flying at a normal [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff Two Americans fighting alongside Kurdish forces in northern Syria were killed last week as the battle to retake the Islamic State's de-facto capital there continues well into [...]