The recent easing of tensions between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors has prompted the U.S. to shift responsibility for military operations in Israel to the Middle East-focused U.S. Central Command rather than U.S. European Command. Department of Defense officials said the new geopolitical situation in the Middle East subsequent to the Abraham Accords …
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A U.S. airman based in Italy has died because of the coronavirus, family and friends say, which would mark the first active-duty death in the Air Force and the fourth such death among active-duty service members. Aviano Air Base is investigating what caused the death Tuesday of Tech. Sgt. Michael W. Morris, 36, an HH-60 …
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Defense Department officials have delayed a meeting on whether to fire the president of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, or USUHS, a retired Army two-star general who has led the military medical school for nearly five years. According to a source with knowledge of the proposed dismissal of Dr. Richard Thomas, a …
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The attorney for a former sailor who was arrested after a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 says his client is a gentle man who now regrets listening to the president’s “patent invitation” to enter the building that day. Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, a 33-year-old Arizona man who also goes by Jake Angeli, …
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A retired Air Force officer who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he intended “to take hostages,” a prosecutor said in a Texas court on Thursday. “He means to take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute …
