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US forces in the region are tasked with safeguarding maritime navigation through strategic chokepoints, such as the Strait of ...
Weakened by war and diplomatic deadlock, Iran’s clerical elite stands at a crossroads: defy pressure to halt its nuclear ...
CENTCOM is keeping a heightened posture as the threat from Iran persists despite a ceasefire, General Joseph Votel said.
Mission Support Site Green Village, H2 and Mission Support Site Euphrates, sometimes referred to as the Conoco gas field.
Turkey, which maintained a significant military presence in Syria throughout the civil war, remains entangled in a country ...
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The US is Unlikely to Withdraw Its Troops from the Region

Amid the sweeping changes reshaping the Middle East, debates about the utility of keeping the roughly 40,000 US troops currently deployed across the region. With air and naval bases from Syria to the ...
Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump remains in search of a major, concrete foreign policy win. Trump ...
The case for the U.S. military withdrawing from the Middle East is not particularly new. As far back as the early 1990s, Secretary of State James Baker sought to have the U.S. disentangle itself ...
The United States has presented Lebanon with a proposal for disarming Hezbollah by the end of the year, along with ending ...
Estonia’s defense chief said any decision to withdraw US troops from Europe would be discussed with NATO as leaders in the ...
A new leader for U.S. Central Command has been approved by the Senate at a precarious time for U.S. forces and policy in the Middle East. In a voice vote over the weekend slipped in while senators ...
Steve Witkoff, the United States special envoy to the Middle East, visited a controversial US-backed aid distribution site in ...