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.
The number of U.S.-led coalition advisers in Iraq has nearly doubled in size to 450, a move that reflects the intensified offensive to retake Mosul, the last major Islamic State (ISIS/ISIS) stronghold in the country.
Members of the U.S. armed forces deployed around the world celebrate Christmas in the photos and videos below.
U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq have provided weapons and training to hundreds of Shiite militias known for being affiliated with Iran, including some the U.S. has designated terrorists, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
The annual Ms. Veteran America competition, aimed at showcasing the woman beyond the uniform, is helping some of the more than 204,000 women currently serving in the U.S. military find their identities, CBS News reports, citing some participants.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte claimed earlier this week that his Russian counterpart and “idol” Vladimir Putin had offered him a “buy one, get one free” deal on rifles.
WalletHub, the personal finance website, released its annual Veteran’s Day survey which ranks U.S. cities from best to worst places to live for former service men and women. Overall, Texas placed favorably in the rankings with several of its municipalities getting high marks.
Members of Iraqi government-allied Sunni tribal militias have brutally tortured men and boys suspected of having ties to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in villages outside the city of Mosul, in some instances using tasers, locking them in cages, and strapping them to vehicle bonnets and parading them through the streets, reports the human rights watchdog group Amnesty International.
Being a member of the Taliban is not a justification for U.S. troops to attack a terrorist in Afghanistan, even as the terrorist group expands its territorial control across the war-ravaged nation and security conditions continue to deteriorate.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, known as the Khorasan province (IS-K/ISIL-KP), is making an effort to establish “their caliphate” on Afghan soil, according to the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in the country.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has built a new attack drone which is similar to a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle captured five years ago, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
Wells Fargo bank has paid a settlement of $24 million after being accused of improperly repossessing the cars of hundreds of members of the U.S. armed forces serving overseas.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are “dead set” on using chemical weapons and are likely to try to use them in an attack as U.S.-backed Iraqi troops advance on Mosul, which is considered the terrorist group’s last major stronghold in Iraq, warned the Pentagon.
The highest-ranking military officer in the U.S. confirmed that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) used a potentially deadly “sulfur-mustard blister agent” to target a base in northern Iraq that houses American troops. This marks the first recorded chemical attack on the United States since the jihadist group conquered swaths of Iraq in 2014.
Washington (CNN)ISIS is suspected of firing a shell with mustard agent that landed at the Qayarrah air base in Iraq Tuesday where US and Iraqi troops are operating, according to several US officials.
A day after requesting U.S. troops leave the south of the country, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte hinted at interest in buying weapons from rivals China and Russia and rejected the idea of joint naval patrols in disputed areas of the South China Sea.
TEL AVIV – A damning investigation by House Republicans released on Wednesday has found that the intelligence arm of the U.S. military’s Central Command (CETCOM) routinely produced intelligence that “distorted, suppressed, or substantially altered” the results of the campaign against the Islamic State.
Any military or intelligence cooperation between the United States and Russia to strike targets in Syria would include measures to ensure U.S. operational security and would not be based on trust, a top U.S. military official said on Monday.
New recruits would have to crossdress for at least 18 months prior to joining the military, presumably to avoid last-minute transitions from one mode of dress to another. Still, if a member of the armed forces wishes to swap genders while serving on active duty, they may be able to do so “if a military medical provider determines it is necessary,” according to reports.
The Obama administration reports that at least 12 terrorists from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — all released under George W. Bush — have killed an estimated half-dozen Americans, the Washington Post (WaPo) has learned from current and former U.S. officials on condition of anonymity.
A new health report from the Pentagon revealed that at least 11 U.S. military personnel have been infected with the Zika virus, along with four dependents (spouses or children) of military members and two military retirees.
“Anti-American liberal lunatics have taken over this campus,” Kyle Smith writes at the New York Post about Northwestern University, where the appointment of General Karl Eikenberry to head a new global studies institute was blocked because, in essence, military veterans are too American for campus radicals.
On paper, the plan sounded reasonable enough.
Japanese women are flocking in droves to police-issued self-defense classes after the murder of a 20-year-old woman in Okinawa by a former U.S. Marine, while American authorities have imposed a curfew and ban on alcohol during what they describe as a period of “mourning.”
As the nation prepares to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day 2016, POLITICO takes a look back at a year inside our nation’s cemetery.
