Eleven U.S. service members were treated for concussion symptoms in the days after Iran's Jan. 8 missile attack on an American military base in Iraq, Pentagon officials said late Thursday. Published January 17, 2020
President Trump has remained silent this week as the Army launches a review into the case of Army Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn, potentially laying the groundwork for another standoff between the military and the commander in chief. Published January 16, 2020
The Pentagon's long-term plan to refocus on "great power competition" with China has been derailed -- again -- by conflicts in the Middle East, and specialists say the U.S. military will soon face a moment of reckoning and be forced to choose which theater will be its primary focus. Published January 15, 2020
Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond was sworn in Tuesday as the first chief of space operations for the newly established U.S. Space Force, putting the service on equal footing with other branches of the military and giving it an influential seat at the Joint Chiefs of Staff table. Published January 14, 2020
Furious Iranian protesters took to the streets for the third straight day Monday as anger with leadership in Tehran reached a boiling point, while the Trump administration seized on the popular uprising as a potential game-changer in the struggle between the Iranian people and their government. Published January 13, 2020
"Red lines" in American foreign policy over the past decade have often failed to dissuade bad actors, particularly foes in the Middle East such as Syria and Iran. Published January 12, 2020
Iranian citizens turned their anger toward their government Sunday after Tehran's admission that it accidentally brought down a civilian airliner last week, while President Trump warned Iran not to respond to the growing demonstrations with violence. Published January 12, 2020
Amid growing protests and anger in the streets of Iran, President Trump on Sunday delivered a blunt warning to the government in Tehran. Published January 12, 2020
Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday said Iran "probably and could have been" planning to target the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and three other diplomatic facilities abroad in the days leading to the American strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Published January 12, 2020
The official Facebook page of San Diego's Marine Corps Recruit Depot apparently underwent a religious transformation on Thursday night. Published January 10, 2020
A Russian war ship "aggressively approached" a U.S. Navy vessel in the North Arabian Sea on Thursday, reportedly coming within 180 feet of the American craft and narrowly avoiding a collision, U.S. military officials said Friday. Published January 10, 2020
President Trump has multiple options to deal with the two defining foreign policy crises of his first term as tensions rise with North Korea and Iran, but it's unclear whether he has the will to escalate on either front as his political future hangs in the balance. Published January 1, 2020
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Wednesday threatened "shocking actual action" against the U.S. and also promised that the reclusive country will soon unveil new strategic weapons. Published January 1, 2020
The Trump administration scrambled to ramp up security at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq and tamp down a brewing crisis in the Middle East on Tuesday after an Iran-backed militia launched a brazen attack that briefly breached the walls of the U.S. diplomatic compound in Baghdad. Published December 31, 2019
President Trump's next Navy secretary will be walking onto a command deck with a massive number of headaches, including a lingering Navy SEAL scandal, a string of shootings on bases and a competition with China to define the 21st century. Published December 30, 2019
A powerful pro-Iran Iraqi militia vowed direct "confrontation" with the U.S. on Monday after weekend airstrikes killed 25 of its members, and the American attacks threaten to send already tense relations between Washington and Tehran spiraling downward in the new year. Published December 30, 2019
The U.S. this week dramatically ramped up surveillance over North Korea ahead of Pyongyang's anticipated "Christmas gift," while the Pentagon sent an unmistakably blunt message by leaking news of a November special-operations drill that practiced taking out top North Korean officials. Published December 26, 2019
While its Middle East "caliphate" has been shattered, the Islamic State has regrouped and quickly gained a significant foothold in Africa's unstable, impoverished Sahel region -- and experts say the U.S. is taking a serious foreign policy gamble by steering clear of major military intervention to address the growing terrorist threat. Published December 22, 2019
Economic sanctions haven't slowed Moscow's foreign arms sales, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday, boasting that his nation's weapons exports actually increased dramatically in 2019. Published December 16, 2019
The push to eliminate all gender segregation at Marine Corps camps has more momentum than ever, but analysts and military insiders say there remain major real-world, physical roadblocks to coed basic training and serious questions about whether the Marines can or should follow the lead of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Published December 15, 2019
