The prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods is bringing back searing memories of the deadly battles the U.S.-led coalition fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Oklahoma’s U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says he will step down before his six-year term is up.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe plans to announce soon that he is retiring from Congress.

A senior Army three-star general with extensive experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has been nominated to become the top U.S. commander for the Middle East.

The State Department says it's looking into the apparent disappearance of a nearly $6,000 bottle of whisky given more than two years ago to then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the government of Japan.

"The abrupt policy decision to seemingly abandon our Kurdish partners could not come at a worse time. Votel was instrumental in formulating the strategy that saw the US-backed Iraqi military and Syrian Democratic Forces drive ISIS from all its remaining territory. However, the US had previously convinced the Syrian Democratic Forces to dismantle their defensive fortifications and pull their troops from the border with Turkey. The presence of US forces in the area had convinced the Syrian Democratic Forces to abide by that plan. Trump later partially reversed that decision, agreeing to keep a residual US presence in Syria, a decision driven in part by the need to protect America's Syrian allies.