Pentagon

A Pentagon spokesman's statement about the deaths of two Serbian embassy staffers in Libya "does not reflect the official position of the U.S. administration."

This is what U.S. Ambassador Kyle Scott told Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as they met in Belgrade on Saturday.

Serbia and the US continue to dispute the causes of the deaths in Libya of the two kidnapped Serbian embassy employes, Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic.

Belgrade maintains a US air strike against the Islamic State, ISIS, last week killed them but Pentagon officials blame a "criminal group", which it says used the US bombing as an alibi to kill them.

"The U.S. military believes that an airstrike against IS in Libya did not kill two kidnapped Serbian diplomats, as Belgrade has asserted," writes a U.S. daily.

Aleksandar Vucic has invited the Unites States to provide evidence to prove that Serbian embassy staffers in Libya did not die in a U.S. aistrike.

"We don't know the basis for Pentagon's stance there was no reliable information two Serbian diplomats were killed by American bombs," says Nebojsa Stefanovic.

The Pentagon describes the dispute between the U.S. and Turkey over the Syrian Kurdish group the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as an "ongoing topical conversation."

President Barack Obama on Feb. 23 presented a long-awaited roadmap to close the controversial US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, saying it was time to shutter a facility that betrayed US interests and values.

The Pentagon has asked Russia to stay away from parts of northern Syria where US special operations forces are training local fighters to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)  group, military officials said on Feb. 18.

Three U.S. citizens who were kidnapped in Baghdad last month have been released with the help of the Iraqi government, the State Department said on Feb. 16. 

NATO is willing to support a German, Greek and Turkish request for help in monitoring Turkey's Aegean Sea coast for migrant smugglers, Pentagon chief Ashton Carter said Feb. 11.  

"NATO and all the parties at the table this morning indicated a willingness for NATO to support and be a part of that operation," Carter said at the 28-nation alliance's headquarters in Brussels.