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The United States and its allies expanded their assault against the Islamic State on Monday, striking targets inside Syria for the first time, the Pentagon said.

Rescue workers in Nicaragua were trying to reach four trapped miners in the gold and silver mine in the country’s south-central city of Bonanza, after 22 others were freed.

An Israeli attack on a house has killed three military commanders in Gaza, Hamas says, including one of the group’s most senior leaders. Thursday’s strike follows an Israeli attack on the top Hamas military leader earlier this week.

The Air Force has announced the firing of nine midlevel nuclear missile commanders and the disciplining of dozens of junior officers involved in cheating on ICBM proficiency exams.

An admiral of Iran’s Northern Navy Fleet said warships under his command have been dispatched to skirt U.S. maritime borders for the first time, in tit-for-tat move aimed at protesting the U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a book due out later this month, describes President Obama as “a man of personal integrity” who nonetheless was skeptical of his administration’s “surge” strategy in Afghanistan and openly distrustful of the military leadership, The Washington Post and The New York Times report Tuesday.