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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest attack against Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) is underscoring the alarm over the state of the U.S. military’s...
The Pentagon revealed the location of a U.S. Navy nuclear-armed submarine in a rare move a day after President Trump rejected the latest peace...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a rare boost last week to a bipartisan bill that key Republicans, including the chair of the Senate Armed Services...
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The U.S. military disabled an Iranian-flagged unladen oil tanker on Wednesday morning that attempted to breach the U.S. naval blockade, as Washington...
The Trump administration’s long-awaited counterterrorism strategy will put the focus on left-wing “violent secular” groups that officials argue...
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President Trump announced a pause on "Project Freedom" on Tuesday evening based on a request from Pakistan and other countries but added that the U.S....
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday morning that the U.S. ceasefire with Iran is not over after both sides traded fire on Monday in the Strait...
Iran opened fire on U.S. warships in the Middle East on Monday and the U.S. military retaliated, destroying six Iranian small boats, according to U.S....
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported missile and drone launches over its airspace on Monday, the first attacks from Tehran since the U.S.-Iran...
The Defense Department has estimated that the U.S. naval blockade has cost Iran about $4.8 billion in oil revenue, a Pentagon official familiar with...
President Trump ordered the Pentagon on Friday to withdraw about 5,000 U.S. service members from Germany amid his public feud with German Chancellor...
A U.S. Navy warship lost power and propulsion after suffering from an “electrical malfunction” while sailing in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command...
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House Democrats came out firing during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first hearing since the Iran war started, peppering the Pentagon chief with...
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The Pentagon’s acting chief financial officer told members of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that the U.S. war against Iran has...
Google has signed a deal with the Pentagon to provide its artificial intelligence (AI) models for classified work, despite concerns raised by hundreds...
The Pentagon has asked Congress to codify its “Department of War” renaming, saying it will cost nearly $52 million to complete and will not have a...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Kid Rock both flew in Army Apache helicopters on Monday in the Washington, D.C., area, weeks after the military...
A group of Senate Democrats are investigating an early March attack on U.S. troops stationed in Kuwait, where six service members were killed and...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will testify in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on Thursday to push for the Pentagon’s $1.5...
The U.S. military said on Friday that three aircraft carriers are operating in the Middle East, for the first time in over two decades, as the U.S....
The abrupt firing of Navy Secretary John Phelan, the latest head to roll in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s turbulent Pentagon, points to President...
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The U.S. military has used up nearly half of its stockpile of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles and heavily expended six other key missile...
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The U.S. forces boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, the Pentagon announced Tuesday morning. The Pentagon...
A GOP-linked group is urging Congress to slash red tape on the Pentagon’s defense acquisition process, a restructuring aimed at prioritizing shorter...
The U.S. military is readying to board ships linked to Iran and seize commercial vessels in international waters in the coming days as President Trump...
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Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said that the ouster of the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Randy George, is a “real loss” for the military during a hearing...
The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, provided an update on the U.S.-imposed blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, saying that so far 13...
Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said during a hearing on Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent ouster of Gen. Randy George, the U.S....
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll ordered that all social media accounts affiliated with an Army unit be shut down after a post celebrating Sen. Tammy...
The U.S. military conducted its 50th lethal strike against an alleged drug-trafficking boat on Tuesday, killing four “narco-terrorists” in the...
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The Vatican backed up the Pentagon in pushing back against news reports claiming a meeting earlier this year between the Holy See’s then-envoy to...
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The Pentagon has denied threatening the Vatican during a late January meeting with the Holy See’s then-envoy to the U.S., as Pope Leo XIV has warned...
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday that the alliance’s members were “a bit slow, to say the least,” on assisting the U.S. when...
A simmering battle for influence between Pete Hegseth and the Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has reached new heights with the Defense secretary’s purge...
Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday over the Israeli military’s barrage of attacks in Lebanon against Iran-backed Hezbollah, Iranian state...
Dan Driscoll said he has no plans to depart or resign as Army secretary, as there has been repeated tension between himself and Defense Secretary Pete...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. military was “locked and loaded” to carry out President Trump’s threat to eliminate Iranian...
Israel hit a major petrochemical plant in southern Iran on Monday, just ahead of President Trump’s deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of...
Two U.S. Air Force fighter jets were shot down on Friday, in two separate incidents, during operations against Iran. The Iranian military downed an...