WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is reducing its troop presence in Iraq this month from 5,200 to 3,000, the top American commander for the Middle East said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump tries to make good on his campaign promise to get the United States out of “endless wars.” During a visit to Iraq, […]
Category Archives: CENTCOM
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Aug
As the U.S.-led campaign to defeat ISIS settles into its seventh year, the head of U.S. forces in the Middle East is considering what that effort will look like down the road. Though the physical caliphate lost its territory in March 2019, the jihadi group still remains a threat and troops remain on the ground […]
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Aug
As the U.S.-led campaign to defeat ISIS settles into its seventh year, the head of U.S. forces in the Middle East is considering what that effort will look like down the road. Though the physical caliphate lost its territory in March 2019, the jihadi group still remains a threat and troops remain on the ground […]
CENTCOM, Turkish
Turkish CENTCOM advisor accused of drugging and tying up woman who died in his Tampa apartment
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Jul
Police in Florida are conducting a death investigation involving Turkey’s senior national representative to the U.S. Central Command international coalition in Tampa. That officer, Huseyin Kurtdere, 39, has been arrested and accused of tying up and drugging a woman at his home, who eventually died, according to police records obtained by Military Times. Kurtdere was […]
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An American F-15 fighter jet flew about 1,000 meters from an Iranian passenger airliner over Syria, while conducting what it called a “standard visual inspection” of the aircraft, officials from U.S. Central Command said. Reports began to spread on social media about the encounter with the Mahan Air airplane earlier on Thursday, as did videos […]
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Jul
WASHINGTON — Six months after a deadly American airstrike in Baghdad enraged Iraqis and fueled demands to send all U.S. troops home, the top U.S. general for the Middle East is talking optimistically about keeping a smaller, but enduring military presence there. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, met Tuesday with […]
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WASHINGTON — Six months after a deadly American airstrike in Baghdad enraged Iraqis and fueled demands to send all U.S. troops home, the top U.S. general for the Middle East is talking optimistically about keeping a smaller, but enduring military presence there. Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, met Tuesday with […]
CENTCOM, commander
Here’s what the CENTCOM commander says about the possibility of Syria, Afghanistan withdrawals
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Jun
The general who helms U.S. Central Command said that any withdrawal from Syria will “ultimately be a political decision,” while still warning about 10,000 ISIS detainees at prison camps in the region, about 2,000 of whom he characterized as “hardcore foreign fighters” during a Middle East Institute event on Wednesday. Marine Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie […]