Elsight, a technology firm based in Or Yehuda, was named this week as one of six companies selected by the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for further evaluation in Project G.I.
The decision "underscores the United States' ironclad support for the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli people," said the U.S. secretary of defense.
The Taliban is the most powerful insurgent group in Afghanistan, where an estimated 11,000 civilians were killed or wounded and 5,500 government troops and police officers died last year alone.
The US believes there were no civilian casualties. Recently, the White House announced that it will disclose how many people have been killed by American drones and other counterterrorism strikes since 2009.
The US is pausing a program to train Syrian rebels to fight ISIS and the Nusra Front after the program's graduates suffered a series of embarrassing defeats.
The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating an allegation that the military command overseeing the anti-Islamic State campaign distorted or altered intelligence assessments to exaggerate progress against the terrorist group.
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