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Carlo Muñoz is a former military correspondent for The Washington Times.

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In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, militants of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

U.S. mulls expansion of military force in Mideast to battle ISIS

American and European military leaders are considering options to step up the fight against the Islamic State, including possibly upping the number of U.S. and allied troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria and expanding military operations against the terror group in Libya, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday.

May 3, 2016
In this image released by the U.S. Navy, a Russian SU-24 jet makes a close-range and low altitude pass near the USS Donald Cook on Tuesday, April 12, 2016, in the Baltic Sea. The Russian attack planes buzzed the U.S. Navy destroyer multiple times on Monday and Tuesday, at one point coming so close, an estimated 30 feet, that they created wakes in the water around the ship, a U.S. official said Wednesday, April 13. (U.S. Navy via AP)

Russian aggression brings tension with U.S. to boiling point

Russian aggression against U.S. forces in eastern Europe is not intended to draw Washington into a open conflict in the region, but Moscow's recent actions have brought tensions between the two nations closer to the boiling point, the top naval officer saidMonday.

May 2, 2016
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, testifying on Capitol Hill, was taken to task over the administration's characterization of anti-Islamic State operations in Syria and Iraq as a noncombat mission.

Ashton Carter, lawmakers clash over Iraq ‘war’ rhetoric

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter clashed sharply with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday over the White House's refusal to say the U.S. military was in a full-fledged war in Iraq and Syria, even as the administration was announcing a fresh round of deployments to both countries to fight the Islamic State.

April 28, 2016
The view from the 16th floor of a Pentagon City hotel Wednesday, April 27, 2016, in Arlington, Va., shows the bulk of land of a proposed 38-acre expansion the Army hopes to use to expand Arlington National Cemetery and extend the life of the facility by 20 years, into the mid-2050s. Army officials held a briefing and community forum at the hotel to explain their plans for the $274 million project, which include a land swap with Arlington County to improve traffic on a busy commuter corridor. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat)

Army officers accused of bribery in Pentagon acquisition scandal exonerated

A federal court on Wednesday exonerated four former high-ranking Army officers accused of orchestrating a large-scale bribery scheme involving under-the-table payments to Pentagon acquisition officials in an attempt to secure lucrative Defense Department contracts for their Virginia-based government contracting firm.

April 27, 2016
Donald Trump roiled U.S. and international leaders after repeatedly suggesting that Japan and South Korea should acquire nuclear weapons and saying at one point that it was "just a matter of time." (Associated Press)

Donald Trump stirs nuclear weapons interest in South Korea, Japan

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump stunned U.S. military officials and the defense policy establishment with his suggestion this month that the U.S. should stop trying to prevent its allies South Korea and Japan from obtaining nuclear weapons.

April 26, 2016
FILE - In this Monday, April 4, 2016 file photo, people flee their homes during clashes between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State group in Hit, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Families, many with small children and elderly relatives say they walked for hours Monday through desert littered with roadside bombs to escape airstrikes and clashes. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

U.S. airstrikes cost ISIS nearly $800M

American airstrikes against Islamic State banks and cash houses in Iraq and Syria over the last several months have cost the terror group between $300 million and $800 million, the U.S. officer in charge of operations said Tuesday.

April 26, 2016
In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, Smoke rises above a controlled land mine, which was detonated by Russian experts, in the ancient town of Palmyra in the central Homs province, Syria. Cluster munitions, land mines, and other unexploded ordinances are killing Syria's civil defense volunteers as they work to make battle-torn areas safe for civilians to return. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Russia ratchets up airstrikes against Syrian rebels

Russian warplanes have ratcheted up their operations in the skies above Syria, striking anti-government targets in the country a day after the Pentagon announced it was ramping up its own military mission in the country, a top U.S. commander said Tuesday.

April 26, 2016