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Gun control proponent Micheal Bloomberg claimed the number of American gun deaths exceeds the entire history of American military deaths.

A leading American philosopher has thrown his support behind President Donald Trump’s decision to reinstate the ban on transgender individuals in the military, arguing that such a decision clearly serves the best interest of the U.S. military.

President Trump’s new White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci, dismissed any talk of backstabbing while he is in charge of the press department. He says he is more of a “front stabbing” guy.

President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that he is not allowing transgender people to serve in the U.S. military, a reversal of former President Obama’s decision last year to let them serve.

The U.S. Department of Treasury is reviewing a dubious Chinese company’s acquisition of an Ohio-based manufacturer that supplies aluminum to the American military, including aluminum for armored vehicles.

Twenty-four Republicans banded together on Thursday to defeat an amendment which would have ended former President Barack Obama’s 2016 policy of funding “gender-reassignment” surgery for soldiers who want to live as members of the opposite sex.

A U.S. Army veteran and another soldier have been killed in Raqqa while fighting alongside the Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG).

In a move sure to exacerbate the impression the ESPN is only for liberals, the cable sports network just announced that former Comedy Central comedian Jon Stewart would be co-hosting a live SportsCenter broadcast with Hannah Storm during a celebration of the U.S. military on July 7.

LUBBOCK, Texas – El senador estadounidense Ted Cruz sugirió que los militares de Estados Unidos deberían ser utilizados contra los grupos criminales transnacionales (cárteles) mexicanos. Las declaraciones fueron hechas durante una entrevista en exclusiva con el senador a finales de mayo en el Museo de Agricultura Bayer, en Lubbock, Texas. El senador dejó claro que no estaba sugiriendo una acción militar unilateral de Estados Unidos en México, sino más bien un esfuerzo cooperativo, como se vio en Colombia.

Following Turkish media reports last week, the U.S. military has confirmed that it has begun shipping weapons to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) to prepare for the battle to liberate Raqqa, Syria from the Islamic State.

On Memorial Day, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that beginning in the 2017-18 season, the NHL will play outdoor hockey games at military academies throughout the country.

Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that, without more U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan, the situation will “continue to deteriorate” and the U.S. will lose the gains already made there.

The Democratic National Committee has seized the newly released federal budget plan to keep the government operating through September as a fundraising tool.

First lady Melania Trump and Second lady Karen Pence spent Friday with children who are patients at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC, and those whose parents serve in the U.S. military, respectively.

Two American military heroes, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Adam Wylie and his former and now retired military patrol dog Emra, have been reunited after being separated since 2014.

Two U.S. service members were killed in action Wednesday night in southern Afghanistan during a raid against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s Afghan affiliate, according to a defense official.

The United States does not intend to use military force against North Korea in response to a nuclear test or a missile launch, despite a report by NBC News, a U.S. military official told the Associated Press (AP) on Friday.

The U.S. military, perhaps inadvertently, may have eradicated opium poppy crops when it dropped the “mother of all bombs” on Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in the Achin district of Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan.

A U.S. defense official said on Monday that the military would deploy 200 additional troops to Iraq at the request of an American commander in Baghdad as part of the ongoing struggle to eradicate the Islamic State in Mosul.

The U.S. military in Afghanistan is stepping up its fight against the growing Islamic State branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, vowing the defeat the jihadist group this year, Voice of America (VOA) has learned.

An Afghan soldier shot and wounded three American soldiers Sunday at a base in southern Afghanistan, officials confirmed this weekend. The Afghan attacker was killed in the incident.

Media outlets are reporting that President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) broader power to use drones to attack radical Islamic terrorists on the battlefield.

The United States obtained information on “hundreds” of al-Qaeda-linked “contacts” as part of the intelligence gathered during the U.S. military raid targeting the jihadist group in Yemen last month, CNN has learned from several unnamed American officials.

The intelligence captured in a January raid in Yemen is “definitely helping” military intelligence analysts understand the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula network, according to a defense official.

The U.S. military obtained “valuable intelligence” from the raid against al-Qaeda in Yemen that cost a Navy SEAL his life, insist a senior American official and the top United States commander in the region.

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are politicizing the United States military like never before, according to a report by Politico.

The United States military is prohibited by law from cooperating with their Russian counterparts, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. armed forces declared during a discussion on American national security priorities hosted by the Brookings Institution.

Department of Homeland Security John Kelly said the U.S. military would not be used in America’s efforts to deport criminal aliens. He also stated there would be no mass deportations. His comments came during a press conference in Mexico City where he and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with their counterparts.

U.S service members participating in the ongoing offensive to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State “have come under fire,” Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, told Pentagon reporters.

The U.S. military is not in Iraq “to seize anybody’s oil”, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said, before arriving on an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Monday.

Russia, which no longer denies its engagement with the Taliban jihadists fighting American service members and the Islamic State, recently expressed dismay towards the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.

BERLIN (AP) — The U.S. Army has begun unloading dozens of Chinook, Apache and Black Hawk helicopters at a port in northern Germany so the aircraft can be moved to a base in Bavaria. German news agency dpa reported Sunday

The U.S. Military is looking into renting space in Trump Tower in an effort to maintain close proximity to President Donald Trump when he is working in New York, according to a report from CNN.

On the heels of a statement by coffee giant Starbucks that it intended to hire “10,000 refugees” instead of America’s out of work veterans, the company issued a second statement to explain to veterans that the company doesn’t actually hate them.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have sent a letter urging President Donald Trump to honor a request by Secretary of Defense James Mattis to exempt Iraqis who served as “interpreters, aides and other allies who risked their lives alongside U.S. personnel in Iraq” from the recent national security executive order.

The first reported U.S. drone strikes under President Donald Trump have allegedly killed 10 jihadists from the thriving al-Qaeda branch in Yemen, including one of the terrorist groups’ field commanders.