Pentagon

Pentagon To Announce Longer Family Leave For Service Members

The proposals are part of Defense Secretary Ash Carter's ongoing effort to modernize the military.
By AP

The U.S. Military Spent Millions Bringing Nine Italian Goats To Afghanistan

How many scholarships or teacher's salaries would this have paid for?
By Megan McCloskey, ProPublica

Obama Administration Keeps Fighting To Keep Gitmo Force-Feeding Videos Secret

The prisoner's lawyer said the footage was so disturbing she had trouble sleeping after she saw it.
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Pentagon Outlines Plan To Take Back Key Territories From ISIS

Militants have lost 40 percent of the territory they once held in Iraq, and 20 percent of their territory in Syria.
By AP

Al Qaeda Re-emerges As U.S. Focuses On ISIS And Taliban

By ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER, The New York Times

Pentagon May Have Wasted Millions Renting Afghanistan Villas

An inspector general says about $150 million was spent on private housing and security for officials who could have cheaply lived on U.S. bases.
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Centcom Allegedly Masked U.S. Failures In Beating Back ISIS

By MATT APUZZO, MARK MAZZETTI and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, The New York Times

U.S. Investigators Struggle To Track Homegrown ISIS Suspects

By Michael S. Schmidt, Eric Schmitt and Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times

The Pentagon Spent Nearly $43 Million On A Gas Station In Afghanistan

"It’s hard to imagine a more outrageous waste of money."
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The Pentagon’s Missionary Spies

How the U.S. military used a Christian NGO as a front for North Korean espionage.
By Matthew Cole, The Intercept