Fiscal 2026 military construction, defense-wide funds in the amount of $74,787,155 were obligated at the time of award. U.S.

Travis Fuller was from my hometown. I went back and talked with his family about how they made sense of his death, 25 years after Sept. 11. First Lt. Travis Fuller died in a helicopter crash in Iraq ...

Former Marine commander Scott Huesing recalls leading 258 Marines through intense operations in Ramadi, one of the most dangerous cities in Iraq at the time. His unit worked alongside tanks, aircraft, ...

You may have heard reports of fish die-offs or seen photos of hauntingly bleached coral. Those are just two signs that a marine heat wave has swept through the sea. Marine heat waves happen when the ...

AL-MONITOR is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit takes off from America-class assault ship USS Tripoli in the CENTCOM area of responsibility on May 30, 2026.

Every Iraqi prime minister since the fall of Saddam Hussein has inherited the same impossible job: convince Washington that Iraq is not slipping entirely into Iran’s orbit while convincing Tehran that ...

Secretary Pete Hegseth and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi stand for the playing of the U.S. and Iraqi national anthems prior to a bilateral meeting at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., July 14, 2026.

U.S. firms signed several oil-related and other deals with Iraq on Friday, days after President Trump said the two sides would be “doing a lot of deals” because of the Middle Eastern nation’s oil.

Iraq’s government has struck dozens of agreements with Western oil companies, including to restore an energy supply route Baghdad could use to export its oil without the Strait of Hormuz. The ...

Iraq and Syria signed an agreement to rebuild an oil pipeline that would provide an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. Iraq, the second-largest oil producer in OPEC, has suffered heavily from the ...

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