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Soon, Army counterintelligence officials expect to have new authorities to search, execute warrants and make arrests off-post for national security or terrorism investigations.
The new law “allows all Army civilian [counterintelligence] agents to conduct searches, to execute warrants and to make arrests off of the installation, because that’s where the majority of our people live today,” Lt. Gen. Anthony Hale, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., last week.

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Iraq ’s prime minister said Monday that a small contingent of U.S. military advisers will remain in the country for now to coordinate with U.S. forces in neighboring Syria combating the Islamic State group.
Washington and Baghdad agreed last year to wind down a U.S.-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq by this September, with U.S. forces departing some bases where they have been stationed.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told journalists in Baghdad that U.S.

What hits an airliner in the windscreen at 36,000 feet?

“A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the plane’s windscreen shattered.
Flight 1093 had taken off from Denver, Colorado, and was headed to Los Angeles, California, when a layer of the cockpit’s main window cracked on Thursday.
The plane was about 200 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, at roughly 36,000 feet in the air, when the crew noticed something strike the windshield, Air Live reported.

The Department of the Air Force chief information officer announced a new policy change by sharing a post from a contractor, with the tag, “Strategic shift, operational clarity.”It is neither.The Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act directed the secretary of defense to task the Defense Innovation Board “to undertake a study on streamlining software development and acquisition regulations.”The subsequent Software Acquisition and Practices Study was a fulcrum moment for the defense industrial base.

Armed groups in Colombia have built an air force — and it flies on cheap, store-bought drones.In late August 2025, the National Liberation Army claimed responsibility for an ambush that left 13 police officers dead and four wounded. Initially reported as a drone strike, investigators later concluded that planted explosives destroyed the helicopter at a routinely used landing site. Two days later, a Colombian Navy ship was struck by a drone carrying improvised explosives, tearing through the crew deck and killing one marine.

The Russian Army has rapidly increased the number of T-80 main battle tanks in active service, as the vehicle’s unique capabilities including its particularly high mobility have been increasingly highly valued. While during the 2010s the number of operational T-80s was cut significantly, primarily due to the type’s far higher operational costs than the rival T-72 which saw numbers in service increased, the demonstration of the value of the T-80’s greater mobility in high intensity combat is thought to have been a primary factor leading the Army to seek to field more of the vehicles.