BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send eight Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year, U.S. defense officials said Monday.
The uptick in American fighting forces — and the decision to put them closer to the front lines — is designed to help Iraqi forces as they move to retake the key northern city of Mosul.
LEXINGTON – Hundreds of people packed together on Lexington Green in the early morning hours Monday to commemorate the 241st anniversary of the Battle of Lexington.
The confrontation between Massachusetts militia volunteers, known as Minutemen, and the troops of Great Britain is marked as the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
