IRNA - Former US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday sharply criticized tough talk on Iran from senior Trump administration officials determined to ouster regime-backed forces from Syria. I don't know what our foreign policy objective is in the Middle East or almost anywhere else, says former defense secretary at Defense One interview. The ...

Former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said that the US policy in Syria has been damaged by the initial demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad had to leave office. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The US policy inSyria has been damaged bythe initial demand that Syrian President Bashar Assad had toleave office, former Secretary ofDefense Chuck Hagel said....

[caption id="attachment_135686" align="alignright" width="150"] US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (L) greets US troops during his visit to Camp Buehring in the northwest of Kuwait, roughly 65 miles from the Iraqi border, on December 8, 2014.[/caption] The outgoing US secretary of defense has arrived in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad on a surprise visit ...

[caption id="attachment_134771" align="alignright" width="146"] U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel walks to the Pentagon in Washington, November 24, 2014.[/caption] Outgoing US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel expressed confidence in the ability of Afghan forces to defend Kabul following a spike in Taliban strikes as he arrived in the Afghan capital ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. After days of speculations about the outcome of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, which finally came to an end on November 24, all Iranian dailies, without ...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday he shared with his U.S. counterpart his country's concerns about the direction of talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear program. In an audio message released by Yaalon's office after his meeting with Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon, Yaalon said they also talked about the conflicts in Iraq ...

Russia and China are increasingly closing the technology gap with the US military by developing weapons systems that challenge traditional US advantages, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. Hagel was speaking Wednesday to members of the Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance at a conference on defense innovation, before a NATO summit expected ...

[caption id="attachment_112825" align="alignright" width="238"] Photographer: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty ImagesA Kurdish peshmerga fighter looks at smoke rising in the horizon following U.S. airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants at Mosul Dam on the outskirts of the northern city of Mosul.[/caption] The militant Islamic State poses an imminent ...

The report also touches on Iran's covert operations abroad, citing that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) along with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah have been actively fighting in Syria and neighboring Iraq. A classified assessment by the US Pentagon has claimed that Iran is increasing its military capabilities, exercisesand ...

[caption id="attachment_111360" align="alignright" width="253"] Displaced Yazidis crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing, in northern Iraq, on Wednesday. Thousands who had been besieged have escaped. Credit Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse Getty Images[/caption] WASHINGTON Defense Department officials said late Wednesday ...

[caption id="attachment_110847" align="alignright" width="208"] U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets take off for mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. U.S. military officials said American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed several vehicles Sunday that were part ...

The US secretary of defense has called on the Persian Gulf Arab states to close ranks against the Islamic Republic. Chuck Hagel, who was addressing defense ministers from the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Jeddah on Wednesday, claimed that Iran poses threats to the region. The most pressing security challenges threaten this region as ...

Daily look at Iran's late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Hagel, in Saudi Arabia, tells Arab states not to fear nuclear talks with Iran As Washingtons negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program entered a crucial stage this week, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told Arab defense chiefs Wednesday that the United States would keep ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama was ready to order a military strike against Syria, with or without Congress' blessing. But on Friday night, he suddenly changed his mind. Senior administration officials describing Obama's about-face Saturday offered a portrait of a president who began to wrestle with his own decision - at first internally,...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held out hope Sunday for a nonmilitary way to ending the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, but he also emphasized Washington's willingness to let Israel decide whether and when it might strike Tehran in self-defense. Hagel, on his first visit to Israel as Pentagon chief, seemed intent on burying the ...

[caption id="attachment_25679" align="alignright" width="300"] US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem, April 23, 2013.[/caption] JERUSALEM (AP) -- On Chuck Hagel's inaugural visit to Israel as U.S. defense secretary, Syria surpassed Iran as the security ...

Deal - which seeks to strengthen Israel's qualitative advantage without giving it a green light to strike Iran - would mark first sale ofV-22 Osprey to a foreign country, report says. The United States is expected to finalize an agreement next week in which it will provide $10 billion worth of weapons to its allies in the Middle East, including Israel,...

WASHINGTONThe Pentagon has redesigned its biggest "bunker buster" bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran's most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site. U.S. officials see development of the weapon as critical to convincing Israel that the U.S. has the ability to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb if diplomacy ...

Over the past half-year, it seems thatIsraeland the West have lessened their attention on the ominous Iranian nuclear program. While just a few months ago, the world was focused on the Iranian nuclear advancement, it is now apparent that the ayatollahs have once again taken advantage of attempts at diplomacy and are now closer to an operational nuclear-...

[caption id="attachment_25679" align="alignright" width="300"] US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel gives a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem, April 23, 2013.[/caption] Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made a trip to Israel last week tooffer yet more military handoutsto the region's most ...