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A deadly collision on Wednesday night between an American Airlines plane with 60 passengers and four crew members and an Army UH-60 Black Hawk...
The Pentagon’s new strategy focused on countering drones aims to respond to the future of warfare as autonomous unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are...
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President Trump is sending hundreds of troops to the southern border for a wide-ranging mission that poses new challenges and raises questions about...
Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth paid his sexual assault accuser $50,000 in a settlement agreement with the woman, identified only as Jane Doe,...
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The U.S. military will support deportation flights, intelligence collection and help construct barriers when 1,500 active-duty troops deploy to the...
President Trump on Monday night signed an executive order authorizing the U.S. military to draft a plan for sending troops to the southern border. The...
President Trump on Monday, in his first executive order, revoked dozens of Biden-era actions, including one that allowed members of the transgender...
A portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has feuded in highly public spats with President Trump, was...
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, expected to begin its first phase Sunday, has brought relief to the international community but questions...
Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on President-elect Trump's defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, to divest from thousands of dollars worth of...
President-elect Trump’s talk of taking over or acquiring Greenland is highlighting bipartisan talks about the need to increase security around the...
President-elect Trump on Thursday named Troy Meink, a top spy chief who has previously served as a missile engineer, as his pick for secretary of the...
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization scandal last year increased national security risks and should have been handled better, according to...
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Pete Hegseth on Tuesday battled through a high-stakes Senate hearing in which Democrats sought to paint the Pentagon nominee as inexperienced,...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Monday that Ukraine was not yet in a strong position to begin peace talks with Russia ahead of President-elect...
Ukraine is leaning into its efforts to hold onto the Russian territory of Kursk amid intense pressure from Russian and North Korean forces to take it...
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An appeals court on Thursday temporarily blocked a plea deal for three accused 9/11 plotters in a win for the Justice Department and Pentagon, which...
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The Defense Department is sending additional assets to California to assist with the massive wildfire spreading across Los Angeles and the southern...
President-elect Trump’s refusal to rule out military action to seize his ambitions of acquiring the Panama Canal and Greenland has sparked some...
The Justice Department, on behalf of the Pentagon, on Tuesday asked an appeals court to block an effort to enforce plea deals reached with four...
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Ukrainian forces have launched a major new offensive in Russia's Kursk region, a region that Ukraine captured parts of over the summer but has, in...
A U.S. soldier has died in Iraq from noncombat injuries, according to the Defense Department. Capt. Eric Richard Hart, 34, of Indianapolis, died...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected proposals Monday floated by President-elect Trump's allies to end the war in Ukraine, dealing a...
Amber Sax’s frustration grew each time she saw a new report of a U.S. military Osprey aircraft crashing over the past two years, often taking...
The White House said Friday initial signs pointed to Russian air defenses downing a passenger plane that crashed over Kazakhstan and killed 38...
Finland on Thursday seized a ship carrying oil for Russia in relation to the recent cutting of an undersea cable connecting electricity to Estonia...
Moscow on Thursday warned against speculation that Russian air defenses may have caused the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Kazakhstan...
Israeli forces on Thursday launched a massive barrage of strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen in the latest exchange of attacks between Israel and...
Denmark announced a major new package to boost the security of Greenland in a move the Danish defense minister called "ironic" because it came just...
The White House on Monday launched a new probe into China's semiconductor industry as the Biden administration continues to take more aggressive...
Australia has agreed to extradite a former Marines pilot who the U.S. has accused of training Chinese pilots more than a decade ago. Australian...
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Republican lawmakers want a return to "maximum pressure" on Iran in the second Trump administration and are widely open to the idea of strikes on...
Russian President Vladimir Putin talked for more than three hours during an annual news conference in Moscow on Thursday, discussing key topics...
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The Chinese military is struggling to contain corruption issues across its ranks, an issue that threatens to undermine its modernization efforts, a...
The buzz around the mysterious flurry of drones above New Jersey and other nearby states has prompted some officials, including President-elect...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his forces will for now occupy territory they had seized over the border in Syria....
The U.S. on Monday charged two Iranian officials in a scheme that contributed to a deadly January drone attack that killed three American troops in...
A top Russian general in charge of Russia's nuclear defense forces was killed on Tuesday by a bomb hidden inside his scooter. Russia's...
A large group of Democratic senators introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Monday that would ensure the right...
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