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28 November 2023

CNN | US forces came under attack 4 times in Iraq and Syria on Thanksgiving

On Thursday morning, multiple one-way attack drones were launched against troops at Al-Asad Airbase, and one one-way attack drone targeted Erbil Airbase in Iraq. A multi-rocket attack was also launched against forces at Mission Support Site Euphrates in Syria. On Thursday afternoon, another one-way attack drone was launche

d against forces at Mission Support Site Green Village in Syria.

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Defense News | What to watch as Congress negotiates final defense policy bill

The annual bill is usually a bipartisan product, but conference committee talks over the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act may be trickier than usual this year. House Republicans added numerous partisan provisions from the right-wing Freedom Caucus to their version of the bill. The Senate version contains several of its own amendments that enjoy bipartisan – though not always unanimous – support.

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Washington Post | Hijacking attempt on Israel-linked ship thwarted by U.S. Navy

After the incident, missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen and landed in the Gulf of Aden, officials said.

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Reuters | Deal reached to extend Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza by two days

Mediator Qatar said on Monday a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza had been extended by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave.

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Military Times | VA delays disputed change in how it pays for veterans’ ambulance trips

Veterans Affairs officials will postpone a controversial rule change regarding ambulance service reimbursements after objections from industry officials and members of Congress who worried the move could endanger some veterans living in rural areas.

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Navy Times | Ike carrier strike group enters Persian Gulf

The carrier, which departed Norfolk, Virginia, in October for a scheduled deployment, is the first carrier to steam in those waters since the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group operated there in September 2020.

CRA | It’s time for a negotiated settlement for Ukraine

Without a path to victory for Ukraine, the only realistic way forward to peace in Europe is a negotiated settlement.

Washington Post | A soldier in Vietnam and a girl wrote letters. Decades later, they finally met.

And thus began an unlikely friendship, an exchange of letters that began in 1967 and spanned years, continents, and deep cultural divides. Felder was 30 years old, a Black man raised in poverty in South Carolina who had lifted himself through college and law school and had become a captain in the U.S. Army. Olson, who is White, wrote to him about her school, which was in an apple orchard. About Camp Fire Girls, practicing piano and learning to play the French horn.

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