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This photo provided by researchers shows California sea lion Ronan in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 2023, under an NMFS 23554 permit. (Carson Hood/UC Santa Cruz via AP)

Scientists once thought only humans could bob to music. Ronan the sea lion helped prove them wrong

By Christina Larson - Associated Press

Kurdish security forces take position overlooking the Islamic State-controlled villages surrounding Mosul on Monday, the beginning of what Pentagon officials say could be a drawn-out operation to liberate Iraq's second-largest city from Islamic State control. (Associated Press)

Mosul offensive against ISIS ‘ahead of schedule,’ but fears of wider regional war mount

By Carlo Muñoz and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013 file photo, Russian air defense system missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia. The Russian military said Tuesday it had deployed the S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria to protect a Russian navy facility in the Syrian port of Tartus and Russian navy ships in the area. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, file)

Russia threatens to kill pact to share skies over Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Islamic State-run Aamaq news agency said Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was "martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo." (Associated Press)

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani death: U.S. and Russia both claim they killed top ISIS commander

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter reportedly is concerned that the United Kingdom will leave the coalition in Afghanistan. He is slated to meet with British Defense Minister Michael Fallon during an upcoming NATO summit. (Associated Press)

Ashton Carter: Brexit can’t break military ‘special relationship’

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Friday, May 27, 2016, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter delivers remarks during the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Ashton Carter seeks faster tempo in fight on Islamic State

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Syrian Arab trainees practice firing their small arms at an undisclosed training range in northern Syria on Saturday, May 21, 2016. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East has secretly visited Syria for a first-hand look at efforts to build cohesive alliances of Arab, Kurd and other local fighters to defeat the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Pentagon stands by noncombat role of U.S. forces in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens and firefighters gather at the scene where one of rockets hit the Dubeet hospital in the central neighborhood of Muhafaza in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Shells and mortar rounds are raining down on every neighborhood Aleppo," said Aleppo-based health official Mohammad Hazouri, speaking from Al-Razi hospital. (SANA via AP)

Pentagon confirms ISIS recruiter, wife killed during U.S. airstrike in Syria

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this April 9, 2016 photo, Kurdish peshmerga soldiers stand guard at a check point in Rabia, northwestern Iraq. When Iraqi Kurdish forces retook Rabia last year it was a major advance against the Islamic State group, which had swept across northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014 and declared its caliphate across its territory in Iraq and Syria. Now 18 months later, the town demonstrates the difficulties of returning to the way things were before the IS rampage. (AP Photo/Alice Martins)

U.S. unsure of Syrians’, Kurds’ effectiveness in ISIS fight

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Russian pilots march after returning from Syria at an air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Russia, on March 16. (Associated Press)

Putin’s Russian air force bombing Islamic State effectively, Pentagon concedes

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A member of Afghan security forces stands guard at the site of a suicide attack near Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. The attacker killed only himself and harmed no one, said police spokesman Basir Mujahad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Pentagon admits Afghan forces are unable to ‘entirely operate on their own’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Sunni volunteer tribal fighters deploy as they support the Iraqi security forces in liberating the city of Ramadi, Iraq, from Islamic State group militants, in the eastern suburbs of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. (AP Photo)

U.S. special ops forces rescue 70 hostages in Iraq; 1 service member killed

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

A B-1B Lancer after refueling during U.S.-led airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria. Military intervention alone won't avert violent upheaval in the Middle East, says Nasir Shansab. (AP Photo/Staff Sgt. Ciara Wymbs, U.S. Air Force)

Abu Bakr al Turkmani and David Drugeon, ISIS and al Qaeda operatives, killed by airstrikes

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Peter Cook named by Pentagon as new press secretary

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Kansas media fights to open court records

By ANN MARIE BUSH - Associated Press

Brinkley settles latest skirmish with ex-husband

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press