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The president-elect’s made-for-TV decision to name Fox News host Pete Hegseth is reinforcing broad doubts about the seriousness of Trump's foreign...
The former Green Beret and China hawk, who was praised by the president-elect during right-wing media appearances, may soon find himself tasked with...
This was the first wave of retaliatory US strikes against Iran-backed militias acknowledged by CENTCOM in several months.
The Biden administration seeks to dissuade Iran from launching yet another retaliatory attack against Israel amid a drawn-out exchange of strikes that...
During his previous term in office, President-elect Trump repeatedly sought to extract US troops from the Middle East, often in a chaotic manner,...
The Israeli military is signaling to Tehran that it can strike its nuclear facilities from afar with or without direct American support.
There's no sign the Biden administration has put any time limit on the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, nor of whether the White House intends to exert...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nixed his defense chief's trip as Washington looks for leverage to restrain an Israeli retaliation against Iran...
The Pentagon likened the current crisis in the Middle East to that in Europe prior to the First World War, as the Biden administration seeks to...
The White House ordered the US military to adjust force presence in the Middle East ‘as necessary’ after Israel defied Washington in a bid to kill...
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s need for a domestic political win has sent Pentagon officials back to the drawing board to find ways to...
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s need for a domestic political win has sent Pentagon officials back to the drawing board to find ways to...
The Pentagon held talks with Israel's Defense Ministry that resulted in the approval of package in military aid worth $8.7 billion.
Washington has not yet authorized an evacuation, but President Joe Biden acknowledged "all-out war is possible" as Israel mobilizes two reserve...
The move put the US-UAE military relationship on the same footing as that between the United States and India.
The Georgia's arsenal multiplies the US Navy's precision-strike capabilities near Iranian shores as Israel awaits retaliation for the assassination of...
Israel's air force and navy overwhelmingly thwarted the attack without need for the US military to shoot down any of Hezbollah's projectiles, Pentagon...
The Democratic presidential nominee nodded to a solution that would ensure Palestinian "dignity, security, freedom and self-determination," but...
The Biden administration is touting this week's last-ditch round of Gaza cease-fire negotiations in a bid to dissuade Iran and its proxies from...
The deployment of an Ohio-class guided missile submarine and hastening of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's transit comes as Iran has refused to back...
The Pentagon has been downplaying the threat of a wider Middle East conflict to allow Western diplomats time to negotiate an off-ramp to an expected...
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment of an additional aircraft carrier, fighter squadron and warships capable of shooting down...
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment of an additional aircraft carrier, fighter squadron and warships capable of shooting down...
After the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran this week, presumably by Israel, the US military has been preparing defensive...
Iraqi militia Harakat al-Nujaba warned that the United States and Israel had "opened the gates of hell" following a US airstrike south of Baghdad that...
Pentagon officials are anticipating blowback from Iran-backed militias in the Middle East after an Israeli airstrike killed a senior Hezbollah...
US troops in Iraq and Syria are bracing for potential blowback from local militias ahead of anticipated Israeli retaliation against Hezbollah for a...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration resumed negotiations with a senior Iraqi delegation about the future of the roughly 2,500 US troops in their...
WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden’s top adviser on the Middle East departed for the region on Thursday with planned stops in Jordan and the...
WASHINGTON – Iraq's government aims to host what would be the first meeting in more than a decade between Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan,...
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WASHINGTON — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on Tuesday as Washington presses for...
WASHINGTON — A helicopter crew dispatched by a US Navy guided missile cruiser evacuated 24 crew members from a cargo ship in the Red Sea on Saturday...
WASHINGTON — Lebanon’s top military general met with senior Biden administration officials and congressional lawmakers this week during his first...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday said US military forces involved in a humanitarian aid pier operation off the coast of Gaza played no role in an...
WASHINGTON – The US military halted its airdrops of humanitarian aid over Gaza earlier this month, in part over concerns for the safety of civilians...
WASHINGTON — The US military has halted deliveries of humanitarian aid to the coast of the Gaza Strip after a temporary floating pier suffered...
This is an excerpt from Security Briefing, Al-Monitor's weekly newsletter covering defense and conflict developments in the Middle East. To get...
WASHINGTON — Yemen’s Houthi rebels warned early this month that they would expand their campaign of attacks on commercial shipping that have thus...
This is an excerpt from Security Briefing, Al-Monitor's weekly newsletter covering defense and conflict developments in the Middle East. To get...
WASHINGTON — A US military intelligence officer resigned late last year in protest of what he saw as the unjust nature of US support for Israel’s...
WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Senate lawmakers on Wednesday that the Biden administration has not issued a final decision on...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration paused a planned shipment to Israel of air-to-ground munitions last week over concerns that Israeli leaders...
WASHINGTON — The US military halted its construction of a temporary humanitarian aid pier off the coast of Gaza on Thursday, citing inclement...
WASHINGTON – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed concern to lawmakers in Congress on Tuesday that Israel is not moving fast enough to set up...
WASHINGTON — The US military has begun constructing a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to enable the delivery of humanitarian aid, the Pentagon...
WASHINGTON — An uneasy detente between US troops and Iran-backed militias seemed at risk of collapse on Monday after coalition forces twice carried...
WASHINGTON — The United States is in talks to withdraw troops from Niger more than a month after the country’s ruling junta ordered American...
WASHINGTON – US F-15E Strike Eagles coordinated with UK, French and Jordanian fighter pilots to intercept dozens of Iranian drones fired towards...
WASHINGTON – US F-15E Strike Eagles coordinated with UK, French and Jordanian fighter pilots to intercept dozens of Iranian drones fired towards...