The US government has released five people previously held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the government of Kazakhstan.
President Barack Obama is set to nominate Ashton Carter as his replacement for Chuck Hagel, who recently resigned.
U.S. Secretary of State Chuck Hagel has resigned from the position after questions began to surface about the United States' preparedness to deal with pressing issues of national and global security such as Ebola, Russian adventurism, and the rise of the Islamic State.
The United States has announced plans to send another 130 military advisers to Iraq in an effort to bolster the force of 300 already in the country to help advise Iraqi forces on how best to deal with the expanding threat posed by the Islamic State.
