Commander of Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said on Wednesday that Iranian military doctrine is defensive. Addressing the Eighth Congress of Armed Forces Dentistry at Olympic Hotel in Tehran, he said that the armed forces should stand by the people so strong the people feel calm.'Armed forces have nothing to the Joint ...

(CNN)Turkey announced Saturday it would move its troops from Iraq after weeks of tensions over its military presence near the city of Mosul, according to a statement from the country's Foreign Ministry. The Turkish government didn't say where the troops would move to. It had said troops were deployed to the Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq ...