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The Pentagon has begun sending additional troops to Afghanistan to carry out President Donald Trump's new war strategy, which will stick to his predecessor's approach of supporting the Afghans' fight against the Taliban rather than doing the fighting for them, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Thursday. "Yes, I've signed orders, but it's not complete," Mattis told reporters in an impromptu news conference at the Pentagon.
In this combination of file photos, top: U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers fly over Japan on July 8, 2017, in this photo released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan; and two U.S. Air Force F-35 jets arrive at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, on Sept. 2, 2015.
In this combination of file photos, top: U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers fly over Japan on July 8, 2017, in this photo released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan; and two U.S. Air Force F-35 jets arrive at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, on Sept. 2, 2015.
Officials in Bangladesh say growing numbers of Rohingya are trying to cross the Naf river that divides the two countries in rickety boats, which often do not survive the rough waters as they become increasingly desperate to escape. The International Organization for Migration said Wednesday that at least 18,500 Rohingya had crossed into Bangladesh since fighting erupted in Myanmar's neighbouring Rakhine state six days earlier.
The US and South Korea have staged a joint show of force over the Korean Peninsula, two days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan. Two US B-1B bombers, four South Korean F-15 fighter jets and four US F-35B fighter jets took part in the joint US-South Korean exercise, an official with the South Korean Air Force told CNN.
In this combination of file photos, top: U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers fly over Japan on July 8, 2017, in this photo released by the Joint Staff Office of the Defense Ministry of Japan; and two U.S. Air Force F-35 jets arrive at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, on Sept. 2, 2015.
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer, submitted a letter to Congress disputing allegations made against him in an explosive and unverified 35-page dossier which claims that Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in his favor. The dossier, compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, paints Cohen as a central figure in the Trump-Russia controversy, alleging that he was a key player in "the ongoing secret liaison relationship between the New York tycoon's campaign and the Russian leadership."
"We assess North Korea conducted a missile launch within the last 90 minutes," Col. Rob Manning, director of press operations at the Department of Defense, said Monday evening in a statement.
This Aug. 29, 2017 photo provided by the Department of Defense shows a medium-range ballistic missile target is launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii. The U.S. military has shot down a medium range ballistic missile during a test off Hawaii.
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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that "all options are on the table" in terms of a U.S. response to North Korea's launch of a missile over Japan. In a terse, written statement Tuesday, Trump said that with the missile launch North Korea has "signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior."
Turning an inanimate object imbued with symbolism into an animate being embodying the said symbolism, artist Krzysztof Wodiczko brings private narratives to public spaces. "My Wish," commissioned by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and on display at the museum's Seoul branch in Sogyeok-dong as part of the artist's first major retrospective in Asia, tells the stories of 13 marginalized people in Korean society.
At various times during our history, American troops abroad have been targeted with special ferocity by enemies aware that the more U.S. troops they killed, the more likely our government would be to accelerate already declared timetables for withdrawal. That ends now, President Donald Trump declared last week in an important speech about policy toward the war in Afghanistan.
BANGKOK Myanmar's government and advocates for the country's Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority traded charges Sunday of killing civilians, burning down buildings and planting land mines, as clashes that began last week when insurgents launched attacks against police posts continued.
In this image made from video, a man lying on a bed with a bandaged hand is cared for in a hospital in Buthidaung township, Myanmar, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- Thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims were trying to cross from Burma into Bangladesh on Saturday, after an attack by Rohingya militants in western Burma that left 89 people dead in an escalation of communal violence that has plagued the region.
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 former Navy officers, leading to four major incidents at sea this year and the deaths of 17 sailors. The collision of the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker on Aug 21 - which left 10 sailors dead - was the culmination of more a decade of nonstop naval operations that has exhausted the service.
At various times during our history, American troops abroad have been targeted with special ferocity by enemies aware that the more U.S. troops they killed, the more likely our government would be to accelerate already declared timetables for withdrawal. For years while former President Barack Obama was in office, the Taliban and other terrorists in Afghanistan operated under an enormous advantage: They knew Obama planned to continue drawing down troop strength in that country for political, not military, reasons.
President Donald Trump changed his mind about sending more troops to Afghanistan after a campaign by his national security adviser H.R. McMaster which reportedly included showing the president a photograph of women in miniskirts in Kabul. The picture from 1972 was used by McMaster in an effort to demonstrate to Trump that Western culture could return to Afghanistan if he sent more troops, the Washington Post reported.