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While the U.S. air campaign has conducted more than 4,600 strikes throughout Iraq and Syria, officials agree that some type of ground force is critical to permanently defeating the Islamic State. At least one of the U.S.-trained rebels was killed and others were wounded before...

The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution endorsing a deal that placed long-term curbs on Iran’s nuclear program and starts a process to remove UN sanctions against the country.

After private meetings in Jeddah on the Red Sea coast, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told reporters that Salman and his defense minister “reiterated their support” for the deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program while expressing reservations about its enforcement.

Israel has been strongly critical of the agreement struck this week between its arch-foe Iran and six world powers that would see Tehran curb its nuclear programme in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.