Hundreds of millions in U.S. federal funds initially earmarked to help rebuild Syria, ravaged by the ongoing civil war and the U.S.-led campaign to defeat the Islamic State, have been canceled. Published August 17, 2018
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday announced the creation of special new State Department team that will be responsible for drafting and coordinating the Trump administration's Iran strategy. Published August 16, 2018
The Afghan capital of Kabul was rocked Wednesday by a suicide bombing that killed 48 young men and women and injured at least 65 others at a private education center in the city -- a devastating attack following a days-long surge of militant violence in the nation that has raised fresh concern over Washington's strategy in the 17-year-old war. Published August 15, 2018
Osama Bin Laden has been dead for years and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's "caliphate" in the Middle East has crumbled, but the global jihadist threat continues to boil as extremists retreat underground to plot terror strikes around the world. Published August 14, 2018
U.S. forces in the Pacific have called off the search for a missing Marine lost at sea during naval operations off the coast of the Philippines, Marine Corps officials said Monday. Published August 14, 2018
The Taliban are on the verge of dramatically expanding their control over southern and eastern Afghanistan in a surprise offensive that has caught Afghan and U.S. forces off guard and thrown a vexing new wrench into the Trump administration's strategy for ending the nearly 17-year-old war there. Published August 13, 2018
Defense Secretary James N. Mattis has embarked on his first diplomatic visit to South America, arriving as the region continues to be embroiled in political and economic upheaval that could have a destabilizing effect. Published August 12, 2018
Military investigators at U.S. Central Command could not determine whether the shooting of a Marine by a Syrian militia member in February was the result of an insider attack, which would have been the first related to the American-backed fight against the Islamic State in Syria. Published August 10, 2018
American and Philippine forces are scouring the waters in the Pacific for a lost Marine, reported missing during joint military drills of the Philippines' southwest coastline, officials at Marine Corps headquarters said Friday. Published August 10, 2018
Charles McDaniel Jr. was only 3 years old in 1950 when he and his brother Larry were told that their father, Army Master Sgt. Charles McDaniel had been lost in the Korean War. Published August 8, 2018
Pentagon officials are adamantly denying reports that U.S.-supported allies have bribed -- and at times recruited -- members of al Qaeda's Yemeni cell to support their ongoing campaign against Iranian-backed Shia paramilitaries in the country. Published August 8, 2018
The Defense Department is lauding Macedonia's decision Tuesday to repatriate a group of Islamic State foreign fighters captured in Syria, pressing other foreign nations to follow suit as part of an overall effort to address the growing issue of combat detainees taken off the battlefields of Syria and northern Iraq. Published August 7, 2018
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Tuesday threw his support behind the Trump administration's push to create a new U.S. military force to fight future wars in space, saying the effort to create the new force is already underway. Published August 7, 2018
The civilian death toll tied to the American-led air war against the Islamic State in Syria could reach into the "high hundreds," despite recent public admissions of civilian casualties by the U.S.-led coalition tied to the campaign. Published August 7, 2018
U.S.-Turkish military cooperation in Syria remains intact despite a diplomatic dispute that has brought bilateral relations to their lowest point in years, the Pentagon insisted Monday. Published August 6, 2018
Iran's navy sent dozens of small boats into the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, dramatizing its ability to choke off the strategic Persian Gulf waterway -- a move that could send global oil and U.S. gasoline prices soaring -- and escalating the confrontation with the Trump administration for withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal. Published August 3, 2018
The painstaking work to identify the remains of American service members killed during the Korean War and repatriated to the U.S. may take years, Defense Department officials said Thursday. Published August 2, 2018
The Pentagon will face stricter operating and reporting rules under the major defense authorization bill heading to the White House for President Trump's signature, as U.S. military leaders find themselves under fire for what critics say is a failure to account for and minimize civilian casualties from U.S. airstrikes and military operations. Published August 1, 2018
The Trump administration slapped economic sanctions on two senior Turkish officials Wednesday, escalating a clash over an American pastor being held by Ankara on what U.S. officials say are trumped-up terrorism charges. Published August 1, 2018
Congressional defense lawmakers have reluctantly given the green light to the Trump administration's plans to hold a military parade down the streets of Washington D.C. Published August 1, 2018
