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U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel has accused Russia of providing weapons and material support to the Taliban in an effort to expand Moscow’s influence in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

U.S. generals see Russian influence in Afghanistan

By Carlo Munoz THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

U.S. sees more civilian casualties as campaign against militants intensifies

By Carlo Munoz The Washington Times - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel has accused Russia of providing weapons and material support to the Taliban in an effort to expand Moscow’s influence in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

U.S. Gen. Votel: Russia providing weapons, support to Taliban in Afghanistan

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel has accused Russia of providing weapons and material support to the Taliban in an effort to expand Moscow’s influence in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Joseph Votel: Rigorous rules of engagement remain unchanged for U.S. forces in Iraq, Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, March 24, 2017, file photo, civil protection rescue teams work on the debris of a destroyed house to recover the body of people killed during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants on the western side of Mosul, Iraq. Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul are still burying their dead after a U.S. airstrike allegedly killed more than 100 people last week, and rights groups are expressing alarm over a recent spike in civilian deaths. Iraqi officials have defended their conduct in the war against the Islamic State group, and their advice to civilians to shelter in place as U.S.-backed forces seek to drive the extremists from their last urban stronghold in the country. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

US opens formal investigation into civilian deaths in Mosul

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Houses in a tiny Yemeni village were damaged in a January 29 U.S. raid that left at least 25 Yemenis and a U.S. Navy SEAL dead, showing how difficult it is to tell who is al Qaeda in a country where the militants are mingled with tribes and are fighting on the same side as the government against the rebels. (Associated Press)

Navy SEALs found Yemeni enemies well-prepared for combat in deadly raid

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A U.S. soldier prepares to launch a drone with the Iraqi army near Mosul. The military routinely launches spy drones over the Persian Gulf as well as over Iraq and Syria, and now faces challenges of suicide drones and jamming devices developed by Iran. (Associated Press)

Iran counter-drone weapon, jamming device takes warfare to next level

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel has accused Russia of providing weapons and material support to the Taliban in an effort to expand Moscow’s influence in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

US commander signals larger, longer US presence in Syria

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel has accused Russia of providing weapons and material support to the Taliban in an effort to expand Moscow’s influence in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

General says no bad decisions in Yemen raid, probe is over

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Army Gen. Joseph Votel speaks to reporters Saturday, May 21, 2016, during a secret trip to Syria. Votel said he is encouraged by progress in building local Syrian Arab and Kurdish forces to fight the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Top U.S. commander makes secret visit to Syria

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Army Gen. Joseph Votel speaks to reporters Saturday, May 21, 2016, during a secret trip to Syria. Votel said he is encouraged by progress in building local Syrian Arab and Kurdish forces to fight the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Gen. Joseph Votel, top U.S. commander for the Middle East, makes secret visit to Syria

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

According to the investigation by command officials, officially released by the Pentagon on Friday, the attack on the Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Kunduz, 200 miles north of Kabul, "was caused by a combination of human errors, compounded by process and equipment failures," Gen. Joseph Votel told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

U.S. military’s hazy ‘noncombat’ Afghanistan role creates confusion in hospital bombing

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 file photo, an Afghan National Army soldier stands guard at the gate of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. About 16 U.S. military personnel, including a two-star general, have been disciplined for mistakes that led to the bombing of the civilian hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 people, a senior U.S. official said Thursday, April 28, 2016. According to officials, no criminal charges were filed and the service members received administrative punishments in connection with the U.S. airstrike in the northern city of Kunduz. (AP Photo/Najim Rahim, File)

U.S. service members won’t face criminal charges for attack on Afghan hospital

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2015, file photo, an employee of Doctors Without Borders walks inside the charred remains of the organization's hospital after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan. More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined but face no criminal charges for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 Afghans, U.S. defense officials say. (AP Photo/Najim Rahim, File)

Pentagon disciplines 16 U.S. service members in Afghanistan hospital attack

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Obama's pick to head up CENTCOM sends a clear message that he intends to continue his drone-heavy defense strategy throughout the remainder of his presidency. (U.S. Air Force)

Obama cements drone-centric counterterrorism legacy with Central Command pick

By Carlo Munoz - Special to The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as he visits the National Defense Control Center in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 17, 2015. (Alexei Nikolsky/ RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Vladimir Putin’s plans may post ‘existential’ threat to NATO, General Joseph Votel says

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

U.S. Special Forces (USSF) soldiers scan the ground below for threats while flying on a MH-60 Black Hawk during a Fast Rope Insertion Extraction System training exercise. USSF fast roped onto a specific target during the Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course, John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School on Fort Bragg, N.C., Aug. 28, 2012. (U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Justin P. Morelli)

Green Berets held back in Islamic State fight by flawed intelligence system

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Army Gen. Joseph Votel. (Associated Press)

Votel takes helm of U.S. Special Operations Command; Army general replaces McRaven

Associated Press

Illustration on the growing radical Islamist activity in the western hemisphere by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

POBLETE: Terrorist threats in the Americas

By Yleem D.S. Poblete

** FILE ** (United States Special Operations Command)

Breaking special forces: Obama nominee Gen. Joseph Votel warns that elite troops may be ‘fraying’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times