North Korea fired at least one projectile into the sea on Monday, South Korea’s military said, in a fourth weapons launch this month as it demonstrates its military might amid pandemic border closures and paused diplomacy with the United States.
Ukraine said Sunday that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced its government websites and alleged that Russia is engaged in an increasing “hybrid war” against its neighbor.
Iran’s supreme leader has had an animated video on his website this week that appears to dramatize an assassination of former President Trump, according to the Associated Press.
At least four rockets targeted the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday, two Iraqi security officials said. The area is home to diplomatic missions and the seat of Iraq’s government,
The European Union on Thursday prolonged economic sanctions against Russia for six months for failing to live up to its commitments to the peace agreement in Ukraine, amid concern that Moscow may be preparing to invade its former Soviet neighbor.
Troops belonging to a Russia-led security alliance were preparing to pull out of Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The withdrawal comes only a week after they were deployed to the ex-Soviet nation on the request of its president, who was seeking to quell violent mass protests.
China on Thursday defended its "historical rights" to virtually the entire South China Sea, following a new U.S. government report saying Beijing's claims are almost entirely invalid.
Fears rose Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is intent on invading Ukraine, as talks between American, NATO and Russian officials failed to produce a commitment from Moscow to draw down its major troop buildup along the border with the developing, U.S.-aligned democracy.
A Marine Corps officer working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency disclosed in a memorandum last August that his study of the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic concluded that it was produced as part of vaccine research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to documents made public by a conservative investigative group.
In a Jan. 21 ceremony, Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell will become the 77th captain of the USS Constitution, the world's oldest naval ship still in active service.
The two senior officers of a San Diego-based Navy warship were fired Thursday "due to a loss of confidence in their ability to command," Navy officials said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have sole authority to approve requests for the emergency use of the D.C. National Guard, under a streamlined process following the Jan. 6 riots, when a pro-Trump swept aside police and stormed the U.S. Capitol.
More than 1,000 military families in Hawaii have been stuck in hotels through the holidays after jet fuel from underground storage tanks leaked into a well that supplied their on-base homes with potable water -- a development that capped a year of housing headaches for the Defense Department.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday he is not opposed to a "good" nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, but voiced skepticism that such an outcome would emerge from the current negotiations.
The Pentagon announced Thursday the awarding of a $1.4 billion contract for initial production of the Army's revolutionary new battle-command system for air and missile defenses.
Agents with an investigative unit of the Department of Homeland Security will wear body cameras for the first time as part of a six-month pilot program that will focus on the costs and benefits of using the technology in federal law enforcement, officials said Tuesday.
Nearly 98% of the active duty Army had gotten at least one dose of the mandatory COVID-19 vaccine as of this week's deadline for the shots, but more than 3,800 soldiers flatly refused and could start being removed from the military next month, officials said Thursday.
The Pentagon reached a tipping point Wednesday as the deadline for soldiers in the U.S. Army, the largest military service, passed to get the COVID-19 vaccination. Troops who refuse the mandatory shots or aren't in the process of receiving an accepted exemption will find themselves in an administrative limbo until they're out of the military.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has signed off on a decision to suspend operations at an underground fuel storage tank facility in Hawaii that has been linked to the contamination of the fresh water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
The Air Force has discharged 27 people for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine, making them what officials believe are the first service members to be removed for disobeying the mandate to get the shots.
A Navy commander has been fired from his job as the executive officer of a warship because he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine as required and refused to be tested for the virus, Navy officials said Friday.
A brigade of Army soldiers from the Florida National Guard has been in Ukraine for about a week on a training mission, even as Russian forces continue massing on the border and both countries' political leaders try to lower tensions.
