Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidi discussed security cooperation and the reactivation of military training programs with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a phone call on Wednesday ...

AL ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq — Iraqi army soldiers assigned to the Iraqi army 105th Artillery Battalion, participated in a month-long artillery training course alongside U.S. Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, ...

Iraq's Prime Minister-designate and the US Secretary of War discussed on Wednesday security cooperation between the two ...

BESMAYA TRAINING CENTER, Iraq — In many ways, this collection of dusty ranges and well-tended barracks south of Baghdad represents the culmination of the U.S. military’s years-long effort to train the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will fall way short of meeting its goal of training 24,000 Iraqi forces to fight Islamic State militants by this fall, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday on Capitol ...

As the U.S. military looks to hand over more security responsibilities to Iraqi forces, there is mounting skepticism and debate among experts as to the quality and capability of these troops. How many ...

CAMP TAJI, Iraq — During Operation Desert Storm, F-15 pilot Capt. Tony Rock's job was to destroy the Iraqi Air Force. He and his fellow airmen swiftly succeeded. Twenty years and two wars later, it is ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Obama administration is nearing a decision on how to improve and accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces in light of recent setbacks against the Islamic State, including ...

TASZAR, Hungary, Jan. 31 -- A force of Iraqi exiles is gathering at an air base here under a blanket of snow and secrecy for U.S. training to act as intermediaries between a U.S. invasion force and ...

Announcing plans to reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq by next summer, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that rapid growth in the size of Iraqi security forces made the ...