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President Donald Trump has been speaking a lot about the military, law and order.

A recent wave of deadly attacks in Iraq and Syria claimed by the Islamic State group shows that the extremist group defeated last year is taking advantage of governments absorbed by the economic and health impacts of the novel coronavirus to reassert itself

Two U.S. Marines were killed in Iraq during a mission to clear out an extensive mountain cave complex where ISIS fighters were hiding and living, three military officials said Monday.

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East

U.S. troops at military outposts ín eastern Syria asked variations of the same question to their top commander Saturday: What is our future here? What are the goals we need to think about? Gen. Frank McKenzie, the U.S Middle East commander, knows the future is not certain. But at least for today, he said, “this is an area where...

Documents compiled by a U.S.-based Syrian rights group reveal how Islamic State militants used one of their most powerful bureaucratic bodies to regulate daily life and impose and execute penalties.

The new evidence could be used in international prosecutions.

Pakistani officials raised the death toll from a mosque bombing in the country’s southwest to 15 people on Saturday, as the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.

The powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan province, during the evening prayers on Friday.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Monday honored Conan, a military canine who took part in the raid that killed ISIS leader Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, during an event at the White House.

Military leaders hoping to keep the Secretary of the Navy from quitting lobbied President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One to stop intervening in the case of a Navy SEAL accused of murder, five current and one former military and defense officials told NBC News. On Thursday Trump waded once again into the case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher,...

NBC 7’s military reporter Bridget Naso was there when Chief Eddie Gallagher walked out of court a free man.

European and other members of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State group must take back and prosecute their nationals detained in Iraq and Syria to help keep ISIS from regaining territory, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. Pompeo told foreign ministers and senior officials from some 30 coalition members that it’s imperative that they hold thousands of detained...

At Falco K9 in South Boston, trainers get cuddly yet fearsome dogs in top shape to work in for the military and police.

A U.S. national who is a member of the Islamic State group has been deported home, a Turkish official said Monday, as Ankara began repatriating captured foreign IS fighters. Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency that a German and a Danish national would also be deported later on Monday while seven German nationals would be...

Highly-trained military dogs were literally born for this type of work.

Tyler Falconer has a unique relationship with dogs — the harder they bite, the better he feels. “Every bite is about 700 lbs per square inch on my arm,” said Falconer, who runs Falco K9 in South Boston.

The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the ISIS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for ISIS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to...

Military leaders on Wednesday released video of the mission that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Military leaders on Wednesday released video of the mission that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The Navy on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury’s sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017.

One of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s last audio messages was an appeal for his followers to do everything in their power to free Islamic State detainees and the women being held in jails and camps in northeastern Syria. With news of the extremist group’s leader’s death, Kurdish security forces worried about the possibility of attacks or rioting have been tightening security...