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A Navy fighter jet was lost in the Red Sea on Monday after going overboard during an apparent mishap aboard the USS Harry S. Truman, Navy officials said.
The Pentagon said the U.S. has struck more than 800 Houthi rebel targets over the past six weeks, even as questions swirled Monday about the effectiveness of the Trump administration's military campaign in Yemen.
"Expert-level" technical talks on a new U.S.-Iran nuclear deal could signal that the Trump administration is willing to move away from its position that Tehran must give up all uranium enrichment capabilities and could allow Tehran to keep its nuclear program operating in some form, some specialists warn.
Ukraine and Russia each accused the other Sunday of breaking a truce, with dozens of reported attacks across Ukraine amid dwindling hopes that the nations can ever agree to a lasting ceasefire.
Three former key Defense Department advisers said they have had their character "slandered" amid an ongoing internal Pentagon investigation into leaks of sensitive information.
U.S. and Iranian officials said they made progress Saturday in the second round of talks between the countries, which are aiming to secure a deal to limit Tehran's nuclear program.
The Trump administration will enter direct nuclear negotiations with Iran this weekend with a seemingly endless list of high-stakes questions in play: For starters, will the U.S. push for the full dismantlement of Iran's plutonium production and uranium enrichment programs, or accept something short of that?
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said over the weekend that his country is open to dialogue with the U.S. but only if the two nations are on an "equal footing."
Another round of suspected U.S. airstrikes struck Yemen's Houthis over the weekend while President Trump shared dramatic video footage that appeared to show dozens of Houthi fighters killed by the American attack.
The U.S. is weighing an all-out economic assault on the lifeblood of Russia's economy, its energy exports, in what analysts say would be a dramatic, potentially high-risk move to influence the Kremlin's decision-making and force an end to its war in Ukraine.
The Pentagon late Tuesday said it is sending another carrier strike group and additional air assets to the Middle East, moves that come amid the U.S. military campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen and strong warnings from the Trump administration to the Houthis' chief patron, Iran.
China, Russia and North Korea are building up their nuclear arsenals at a frightening pace to intimidate Washington. At the same time, America has little diplomatic leverage to strike new, traditional arms control deals to limit that nuclear expansion.
The former commander of U.S. Army Pacific says he thinks that China's attitude toward America and its military has taken a dangerous turn, one that could inadvertently spark a global war.
Army leaders say rapid technological advances are poised to eliminate some of the massive logistical hurdles confronting a U.S. military operating thousands of miles from American shores.
The Army plans to field its first "human-machine integrated formation platoons" by 2027, a transformational shift that the Pentagon says will allow robots to make first contact with the enemy on the battlefield.
It's a question that's been at the heart of America's Middle East policy for the past two decades: How far is the U.S. willing to go to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb? Over the next few weeks, President Trump could provide the answer.
The top Republicans on the Senate and House Armed Services committees said Wednesday night they are "very concerned" about reports the Pentagon is weighing major changes to the military's combatant command structure.