Defense Secretary James Mattis

After China canceled a high-level meeting for Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Beijing in October, prompting the Pentagon to cancel the trip altogether, it appeared that tensions between the two countries had taken a turn for the worse, and that economic tensions were bleeding into the military sphere.

President Donald J. Trump recognized Memorial Day on Monday, placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery.

Two U.S. officials told NBC News on Thursday afternoon that two different chemical weapons – chlorine gas and an unidentified nerve agent – were found in blood and urine samples from victims of Saturday’s suspected WMD attack in Syria.

TEL AVIV – Israel held top-level security meetings Wednesday to prepare itself for an assault from Iran or Syria in the case that the U.S. conducts airstrikes on the wartorn country in retaliation for the Assad regime’s chemical attack. 

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has avoided taking a visible role in the Trump administration since it took office last year, avoiding cameras and cable news shows.

Jared Kushner’s private and sometimes secret meetings with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman have reportedly “unsettled” intelligence and national security officials who worry that Kushner has been “freelancing” U.S. foreign policy without even having a permanent security clearance.

On his way home after the Munich Security Conference last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis speculated that artificial intelligence could change the “fundamental nature of war.” The impression given by the security conference is that no one is truly prepared for that change.

U.S. officials confirmed on Tuesday that an American MQ-9 Reaper drone destroyed a Russian-made T-72 battle tank in Syria on Sunday, after U.S. special operations troops and their Syrian allies came under attack by forces supporting dictator Bashar Assad.

The Turkish government continued its crackdown on criticism of “Operation Olive Branch,” Turkey’s invasion of Syria to attack Kurdish positions, by arresting 474 people for “promoting” the Kurdistan Workers’ Party of Turkey (PKK) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) of Syria.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is considering a ban on allowing Defense Department employees to bring their personal cellphones to the Pentagon.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday afternoon the beginning of a major military offensive, bizarrely dubbed “Operation Olive Branch,” against America’s battlefield allies in Syria, the Kurdish YPG militia.

The Trump administration has not authorized any new missions in Niger since taking office in January, defense officials tell Breitbart News.

On Sunday, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford hosted a meeting with South Korean and Japanese military officials at the U.S. Pacific Command headquarters in Hawaii. The three powers produced a joint statement calling on North Korea to “refrain from irresponsible provocations that aggravate regional tensions, and to walk away from its destructive and reckless path of development.”

Sergei Shoigu will land in Israel on Monday for meetings with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his first visit to the Jewish state since becoming Russia’s defense minister in 2012.

H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, labeled the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks “mass murder attacks,” instead of calling them acts of terrorism.

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the possibility that President Trump will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. He also offered some observations on the Catalan independence movement in Spain.

NBC News cites three unnamed “officials familiar with the incident” to report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson referred to President Donald Trump as a “moron” at a July 20 Pentagon meeting. Tillerson is said to have been contemplating resignation at the time.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s South Asia strategy will focus on fighting the lucrative opium trade that is currently providing more than half of the Taliban’s estimated $400 million in annual funding, Secretary of Defense James Mattis told lawmakers, echoing other American officials.

NEW YORK — On the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump did not once mention the terms “radical Islam” or “Islamic terrorism” during a commemoration ceremony at the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump met with cabinet members in Camp David to discuss the administration’s progress and challenges facing the United States including the threat posed by hurricanes.

A recent poll from South Korean news network YTN found 68 percent support for the return of American tactical weapons to South Korea, an idea Defense Minister Song Young-moo seemed to endorse on Monday, or at least refrain from dismissing out of hand.

Russia’s RIA Novosti, a state-run Russian-language outlet, published a story on the occasion of Ukraine’s Independence Day to celebrate the annexation of Crimea as “the first step in the reunification of Russia.”

WASHINGTON – The Navy is putting together a broader inquiry at Pacific Fleet to examine why two destroyers have collided with merchant vessels in the 7th Fleet in two months, according to Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Amid hopeful signs that North Korea is backing away from its threat to launch missiles at Guam, one piece of data from the impenetrable communist state remains troubling: dictator Kim Jong-un has not been seen in public for about two weeks.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says the White House has yet to provide any guidance to the Pentagon on President Donald Trump’s decision to ban transgender individuals from the military.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday titled, “We’re Holding Pyongyang to Account.” The secretaries argue that the Trump administration is using a “peaceful pressure campaign” to achieve the “complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and a dismantling of the regime’s ballistic missile programs.”

President Trump and members of his cabinet say they have not abandoned diplomacy to get North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program after the rogue regime conducted its first successful intercontinental ballistic missile test.

The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan in order to break a stalemate in a 16-year-long war, according to the Associated Press, citing a “Trump administration official.”

Secretary of Defense James Mattis talked about shifting the Obama administration’s long, grinding “war of attrition” strategy to using “annihilation tactics” to “take apart the caliphate” of the Islamic State.

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Monday that the United States will examine the proposed plan to create “de-escalation zones” to curb violence in the ongoing Syrian civil war between Bashar al-Assad’s regime, opposition rebels, and Islamic terrorist groups.

President Trump has authorized military commanders to reset the complex system of troop limits in the Iraqi and Syrian theaters. The Pentagon announced no immediate changes, but supporters of Trump’s decision say it will sweep away a veil of political obfuscation President Obama placed over troop deployments.

More than half of American adults say the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is going well, according to a new poll released Thursday.

US Defense Secretary James Mattis is set to travel to Israel next week as part of a Middle East and Africa tour meant to “reaffirm key US military alliances,” the Pentagon announced on Friday.

Tuesday at a press conference at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary James Mattis said there was “no doubt” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical attack last week in Syria. Mattis said, “Last Tuesday, the Syrian regime attacked

Wearing a UK-U.S. friendship lapel pin, U.S. Secretary of Defense General James Mattis told journalists in London Friday “Britain’s global leadership role is as needed today as at any time in history”, following a meeting with his British counterpart, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon.

On Tuesday, President Trump told a group of senators gathered for a White House reception that “we’re doing very well in Iraq” where “our soldiers are fighting like never before.” He said this assessment was based on a long telephone call with Secretary of Defense James Mattis.