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Japan cancels international fleet review to focus on disaster relief after Typhoon Hagibis
The Chinese destroyer Taiyuan anchors at Yokosuka Port, less than a mile from Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. The ship was scheduled to participate in Japan's international fleet review, which has been canceled after Typhoon Hagibis.<br>Christian Lopez/Stars and Stripes
The Chinese destroyer Taiyuan anchors at Yokosuka Port, less than a mile from Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. The ship was scheduled to participate in Japan's international fleet review, which has been canceled after Typhoon Hagibis.<br>Christian Lopez/Stars and Stripes

Monday’s review would have involved 46 vessels and 40 aircraft from Japan and seven other nations, including the U.S., Canada, Singapore, the United Kingdom, India, Australia and, for the first time, China.

In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks to reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. Esper says the "impulsive" decision by Turkey to invade northern Syria will further destabilize a region already caught up in civil war. Esper says the invasion puts America's Syrian Kurdish partners "in harm's way," but insists the Kurds are not being abandoned.<br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP
In this Aug. 28, 2019, file photo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks to reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. Esper says the "impulsive" decision by Turkey to invade northern Syria will further destabilize a region already caught up in civil war. Esper says the invasion puts America's Syrian Kurdish partners "in harm's way," but insists the Kurds are not being abandoned.<br>Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

U.S.-allied Kurds strike deal to bring Assad's Syrian troops back into Kurdish areas

government troops will deploy along the border with Turkey to help Kurdish fighters fend off Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria, the Kurds said Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump ordered all U.S. troops to withdraw from the area to avoid getting caught in the middle of the fast-escalating conflict.

In this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 photo, Turkey-backed Syrian fighters enter Ras al-Yan, Syria.Turkey's military says it has captured a key Syrian border town Ras al-Ayn under heavy bombardment in its most significant gain as its offensive against Kurdish fighters presses into its fourth day. <br>AP
In this Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019 photo, Turkey-backed Syrian fighters enter Ras al-Yan, Syria.Turkey's military says it has captured a key Syrian border town Ras al-Ayn under heavy bombardment in its most significant gain as its offensive against Kurdish fighters presses into its fourth day. <br>AP

Turkish-led forces film themselves executing a Kurdish captive in Syria

The video is one of a series of photographs and videos posted on Twitter accounts of the Turkish-backed rebel groups and circulated by the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces that suggest some of the Syrian rebels participating in Turkey's offensive to capture territory in Syria may have committed war crimes.

Workers assess debris from Typhoon Hagibis that collected along the water's edge at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. <br>Caitlin Doornbos/Stars and Stripes
Workers assess debris from Typhoon Hagibis that collected along the water's edge at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. <br>Caitlin Doornbos/Stars and Stripes

American bases near Tokyo escape deadly Typhoon Hagibis with minimal damage

By 5:30 a.m. Sunday, all bases in the region — including Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokota Air Base, Camp Fuji, Camp Zama and Naval Air Facility Atsugi — had issued the all-clear for residents to safely leave their homes.


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A soldier from the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C., checks a compass while completing a land navigation course during Special Forces Assessment and Selection near Hoffman, N.C., on May 7, 2019. <br>Ken Kassens, U.S. Army/AP

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Army commanders are making sweeping changes to shorten and revamp the Special Forces course to meet evolving threats and to shift from a culture that weeds out struggling soldiers to one that trains them to do better, but critics fear the changes will weaken the force.

In a Jan. 11, 2019 photo, America's First Corps Commanding General Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky and Lt. Col. Derek Bothern, battalion commander of the newly activated Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space Detachment prepare to receive the unit flag for I2CEWS during a ceremony Jan. 11, 2019, at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash.<br>Caleb Minor/U.S. Army
In a Jan. 11, 2019 photo, America's First Corps Commanding General Lt. Gen. Gary Volesky and Lt. Col. Derek Bothern, battalion commander of the newly activated Intelligence, Information, Cyber, Electronic Warfare and Space Detachment prepare to receive the unit flag for I2CEWS during a ceremony Jan. 11, 2019, at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash.<br>Caleb Minor/U.S. Army

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Spc. Lawi Lalang, a runner in the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program, crosses the finish line in the Pentagon parking lot as the men's winner of the 2019 Army Ten-Miler at Arlington, Va., October 13, 2019.<br> Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes
Spc. Lawi Lalang, a runner in the U.S. Army's World Class Athlete Program, crosses the finish line in the Pentagon parking lot as the men's winner of the 2019 Army Ten-Miler at Arlington, Va., October 13, 2019.<br> Joe Gromelski/Stars and Stripes

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