Topic: Force Protection

U.S. troops and the Russian military have been nearly operating side-by-side in the African country of Niger for several weeks as tensions over fighting Islamic extremists heat up in the region, officials said.

The United States on Sunday advised Americans against traveling to Iraq, after U.S. military and personnel in the Middle Eastern country have come under attack in recent days.

The U.S. military has resumed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions in Niger for force protection, the Pentagon said.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo to senior civilian and military officials that his office will focus on limiting civilian casualties.

Two drones targeted U.S. forces at Erbil International Airport in Iraq just before midnight on the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Beta testing is underway for a new weapons training course developed by the Air Force Security Forces Center.

The U.S. military conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State-Khorasan Province planners and facilitators to retaliate for Thursday's attack, which killed some 170 people.

Law enforcement officials on Wednesday identified a police officer killed in this week's attack outside the Pentagon and the man accused of stabbing him.

An attack outside the Pentagon on Tuesday left a police officer dead and multiple other people injured, prompting a lockdown at the Arlington, Va., building, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced.

The Defense Department will undertake a missile defense review in coming months to correlate its needs against rising nuclear powers, a Pentagon official said.