U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, amid ongoing peace negotiations with the Afghan Taliban, quietly ended an airstrike campaign against Taliban opium and heroin drug labs after failing to curtail the terrorist organization’s multi-million dollar trade, the Pentagon’s inspector general (IG) revealed this week.
Belgian Defense Minister Didier Reynders on Thursday denied a Washington Post report that U.S. allies have “rejected” a “Trump administration request” for them to leave troops in Syria as America withdraws its forces.
Shanahan had a rocky meeting with U.S. senators at a security conference in Munich, Germany, that could jeopardize his chance to become permanent defense secretary.
Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday he does not oppose Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan becoming the next defense secretary.
WASHINGTON, DC — “Serious ethical” and “moral failings” by some members of the U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are impacting “large scale missions” by eroding the morale and confidence of America’s allies, a top Pentagon official declared on Thursday.
The Pentagon’s Inspector General recently announced plans to begin a review of the Air Force’s certification of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket.
The Pentagon is racing to build a defense against a growing hypersonic missile threat from China and Russia.
American troops are helping African countries combat the “environmental degradation” allegedly stoking violence and fueling overall political, economic, and social unrest on the continent, a top U.S. general noted in an annual assessment of United States military activities in Africa.
A Baghdad-sanctioned umbrella organization of an estimated 50 mainly Shiite militias, including some backed by Iran, engaged in illicit activities in recent months that undermine security and stability in Iraq, the office of the inspector general (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) stressed this week.
The Pentagon is at risk of mismanaging yet another multi-billion project in Afghanistan — a modernization program intended to equip the Afghan Air Forces (AAF) with 159 state-of-the-art Black Hawk helicopters as part of efforts to address capability gaps, a U.S. watchdog agency reported Tuesday.
Between 300 and 550 Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis remain active in the Philippines, a testament to the lingering threat posed by the jihadi group despite efforts by U.S.-backed local forces.
There are three migrant caravans headed to the United States’ southern border with Mexico, according to top Pentagon official John Rood.
The new version of the U.S. missile defense strategy released by the Pentagon and introduced by President Donald Trump on Thursday states that North Korea remains an “extraordinary threat” along with Iran, Russia, and China.
An attendee at President Donald Trump’s speech in the Pentagon on Thursday began waving what looked like a red Make America Great Again hat when the president walked onstage, in an apparent show of support for the president.
Trump unveiled the Missile Defense Review, a blueprint to guide missile defense policies, strategies, and capabilities for the next decade.
“While many Democrats in the House and Senate would like to make a deal, Speaker Pelosi will not let them negotiate,” Trump said. “The party has been hijacked by the open borders fringe within the party, the radical left becoming the radical Democrats.”
President Donald Trump will give remarks from the Pentagon Thursday on the 2019 Missile Defense Review.
An advertisement for employment on the Federal Business Opportunities website lists a job at the Department of Defense for scientists with ideas on how to use insect brains to develop “conscious robots.”
Pentagon comptroller David Norquist announced Wednesday that the DOD has already begun its second department-wide audit.
The Pentagon is preparing in case President Donald Trump orders the military to build the southern wall, according to a defense official.
President Trump called a New York Times report claiming he is considering former Democrat Virginia Sen. Jim Webb for defense secretary to replace Jim Mattis “fake news.”
The Taliban and al-Qaeda no longer maintain “strategic ties” in Afghanistan despite the ongoing “limited support” provided by Taliban leaders, the Pentagon argues in its most recent assessment of the war.
Trump allies are rallying around former Virginia Senator Jim Webb to fill the position of Defense Secretary, after the abrupt departure of retired Marine General Jim Mattis.
Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan told his team he wants them to remember “China, China, China” at his first meeting this week with top Pentagon officials.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will hand over the reins of the Pentagon to Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary of defense during a phone call scheduled for Monday.
The media are attacking President Donald Trump after his visit to Iraq, including claims that a video posted on Twitter puts troops at risk.
Outgoing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reportedly spent Christmas Day working at the Pentagon, with only a week to go before Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan takes over on January 1, as ordered by President Donald Trump. The Defense Department published the final holiday message to the troops from Mattis on Christmas Eve.
A U.S. military withdrawal from Syria would fulfill a significant goal of Iran, Russia, and their ally Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, as well as benefit Turkey, which has repeatedly urged the United States to stop lending support to Syrian Kurdish militiamen fighting the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The United States military has begun pulling out the estimated 2,000 American troops deployed to Syria, the top Pentagon spokesperson confirmed in a statement Wednesday, noting that although the U.S.-led coalition “has liberated” the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-held territory in the region, the campaign against the jihadi group “is not over.”
Iraq has reappointed the former chief of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) to his dual posts as chairman of the Shiite militias and national security adviser to the prime minister, the Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday, noting that the Tehran-allied militiaman has also been nominated to head the country’s powerful interior ministry.
