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U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven countries will prevent Iraqi F-16 pilots from training with Arizona Air National Guard’s 162nd Wing, Senator John McCain has warned.
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A member of the U.S. special forces was killed during a raid on Al Qaeda fighters in central Yemen. A V-22 dispatched to evacuate the wounded later had to make a hard landing and the wreckage was later deliberately destroyed.
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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has indicated that he will think through a decision to give preemptive strike capability to the Japan Self-Defense Force.
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The KAI FA-50 has seen combat for the first time when two FA-50PHs from the Philippine Air Force bombed
IS-affiliated terror groups in Butig, Lanao Del Sur on Jan. 26.
Maj. Gen. Tonje Skinnarland has been appointed as chief of the Royal Norwegian Air Force. She had previously served as acting chief.
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