The Trump administration wants to boost spending on deterring Russian aggression in Europe in 2019 by almost $2 billion, indicating continued wariness of Russia and support for European allies.
U.S. Lt. Gen. Paul E. Funk assured reporters on a visit to Manbij, Syria, that American forces would not leave the northern city even if Turkish forces attack it. Asked about concerns that Turkey would come into direct conflict with U.S. troops, Funk said, “it’s not in my job description to worry, my job is to fight.”
Various factions of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a group of mostly Shiite, Iran-backed militias in Iraq, are demanding a full U.S. withdrawal from the country, calling American troops a “magnet for terrorists.”
The rate of districts controlled or contested by jihadists in Afghanistan went from 43.3 to 44 percent during a two-month period that ended in October, revealed the U.S. military.
A city councilman and high school teacher from Pico Rivera, California, was caught on camera making disparaging remarks against members of the U.S. military, several videos show.
A woman allegedly set multiple fires on a Minnesota University campus because she was mad at the U.S. military’s actions in foreign countries.
The Pentagon is expected to intensify its campaign in Afghanistan by expanding the use of drones and deploying an estimated 1,000 advisers to accompany the Afghan troops on combat missions.
American airstrikes have obliterated more Taliban labs in Afghanistan used to process opium and its deadly heroin derivative, dealing a $4 million blow to the narco-jihadist group’s economic engine, purportedly shows a video released by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A).
The future U.S. fight against terrorists will be to train and advise partner militaries to take them on and prevent them from establishing safe havens in their countries, according to top U.S. officials.
The U.S. military once again used its massive logistical reach to send almost 100,000 pounds of turkey to U.S. troops stationed all over the world for Thanksgiving.
Speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC Friday, Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) said she is grateful President Donald Trump “is our commander-in-chief and is prioritizing our military.”
America’s little-known war on terrorists in Africa is becoming more perilous as the U.S. deploys growing numbers of troops to the continent’s most lawless regions, including the part of Niger where four special operations soldiers died in an ambush last week.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned on Wednesday it would treat American troops as “terrorists” if President Donald Trump decides to designate the Islamic Republic’s most feared military arm as a “terrorist organization.”
Five canines that served the U.S. military in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan were awarded the American Humane Lois Pope K-9 Medal of Courage in recognition of their vital service saving American lives.
A new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found the $70 billion American campaign to secure Afghanistan deeply flawed in several crucial respects, particularly its failure to adequately train local police and military forces to secure the country against a resurgent Taliban and invading Islamic State.
MTV has sent invitations to active duty transgender military service members to appear at Sunday’s Video Music Awards (VMAs), the Department of Defense confirmed.
Increasing the presence of the U.S. military in Afghanistan could cost Donald Trump support in key states, according to a new study.
Gun control proponent Micheal Bloomberg claimed the number of American gun deaths exceeds the entire history of American military deaths.
President Donald Trump is reportedly at odds with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, who is also at odds with other presidential advisers and cabinet members, according to a congressional aide and other unnamed sources.
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.
Speaking at a rally with the American Federation of Teachers and other left-wing activists who oppose the House’s plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and the GOP-proposed budget, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the budget’s funding for the U.S. military leads to violence.
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).
Since President Donald Trump took the oath of office in January, he has taken a series of actions and used diplomatic channels to put in place many of the China policies he spoke about on the campaign trail, including confronting the nation on trade, North Korea, the South China Sea, and human rights.
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.
