WASHINGTON: The United States will spend $7.5 billion – a 50 per cent increase – to fund the fight against the Islamic State group, defense secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday.
“Because we are accelerating the campaign, (the Pentagon) is backing that up in our budget with a total of$7.5 billion dollars in 2017, 50 per cent more than 2016,” Carter said in a speech in Washington.
“This will be critical as our updated coalition military campaign plan takes hold.”
WASHINGTON (TIP): The northeastern US shivered amid heavy snowfall and far below average temperatures on January 23 in a storm that grounded thousands of flights and triggered traffic chaos. The nasty weather with its bone-chilling […]
There must be no room for suspicion that agencies are being used for curbing dissent Ordinarily, searches and seizures are the legitimate starting point of an investigation, done on the basis of prior information. But […]
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