Two U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles conducted an airstrike in eastern Syria in response to escalating attacks against U.S. forces by Iranian-backed groups, the Defense Department said Nov. 8. The target was a weapons storage facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and affiliated groups. “The United States is fully prepared to take further necessary measures to protect our people and our facilities,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said.

Many Airmen have impressive abilities, but contracting officer Staff Sgt. Elijah Braly has the power to spend as much money as necessary to get service members what they need at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey. 

Ukraine could lose its war with Russia if it doesn't get the aid supplemental package requested by the Biden Administration, State Department officials told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Nov. 8.

More than 200 Airmen will receive medals for their roles in Operation Allies Refuge, the effort to move more than 124,000 evacuees out of Afghanistan in the final weeks of the U.S. war there in late summer 2021.

The U.S. took a significant step in modernizing its air defense recently when a new system, known as Cloud-Based Command and Control (CBC2), came online at one of the key centers monitoring the skies of North America. The Eastern Air Defense Sector, one of NORAD’s regional commands, recently rolled out its initial operating capability of CBC2, which uses artificial intelligence to help personnel monitor more information in a simpler way than the current system.