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Kurdish security forces take up a position as they fight overlooking the Islamic State-controlled in villages surrounding Mosul, in Khazer, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway.(AP Photo)

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Much riding on battle for Mosul

by Robert Burns Associated PressOctober 17, 2016

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Navy raps sailors over Iran debacle

by Robert Burns Associated PressJune 30, 2016

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, left, receives the rank pennant from US Air Force General Philip Breedlove, the outgoing commanding officer of US and NATO troops in Europe, during the change in command at the United States European Command (EUCOM), in Stuttgart, Germany, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, with General Joseph Dunford, second from left, and Command Master Chief Crispian Addington, second from right, pictured in the background. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP)

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Navy SEAL killed in Iraq

by Robert Burns Associated Press, and Susannah George Associated PressMay 3, 2016

Army Gen. Joseph Votel, Commander of U.S. Central Command, leaves after briefing reporters on the release of the investigation into the U.S. airstrike on the Doctors With Borders trauma center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Friday, April 29, 2016, at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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16 blamed for mistakes in deadly US attack on Afghan clinic

by Robert Burns Associated PressApril 29, 2016

Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work speaks at the Pentagon, Oct. 1, 2014.

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Pentagon, Congress battle over bases

by Robert Burns Associated PressApril 26, 2016

Defense Secretary Ash Carter, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, March 25, 2016, where he announced U.S. forces killed a senior Islamic State leader, among several key members of the militant group eliminated this week. (AP Photo/Mauel Balce Ceneta)

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US moving to increase troops in Iraq; IS leader killed

by Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press, and Robert Burns Associated PressMarch 25, 2016

FILE - This Jan. 9, 2014 file photo shows a mockup of a Minuteman 3 nuclear missile used for training by missile maintenance crews at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo. Defense officials say the Air Force is investigating about a dozen airmen at the nuclear missile base for alleged use of illegal drugs. At least some cases involve alleged cocaine use. The airmen are mainly or entirely members of a security force at the 90th Missile Wing, at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, the officials said. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

Fourteen at nuke base probed for illegal drug activity

by Robert Burns Associated PressMarch 18, 2016

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2015, file photo, an employee of Doctors Without Borders walks inside the charred remains of the organization's hospital after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan. More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined but face no criminal charges for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 Afghans, U.S. defense officials say. (AP Photo/Najim Rahim, File)

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US disciplines at least 12 for hospital attack

by Robert Burns Associated PressMarch 17, 2016