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Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan heads to NATO this week to reassure allies that the U.S. path on key security issues remains steady, amid major policy shifts in Syria, Afghanistan and its recent withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty. ...

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces said Saturday they have launched a final push to defeat the Islamic State group in the last tiny pocket the extremists hold in eastern Syria. ...

WASHINGTON — Military housing conditions will come under congressional scrutiny this week amid reports of failures by private contractors to maintain acceptable living standards at a host of sites around the country. On Tuesday, ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's special envoy for Afghanistan is returning to the country after stops in Europe and the Middle East for an extended diplomatic tour aimed at pushing a U.S. peace initiative. ...

On Feb. 3, President Donald Trump again said that U.S. military intervention was a possibility if worse came to worse in Venezuela. 'All options are on the table,' he swaggered the week before. It has become a signature American threat — all options — born of the 1990 Gulf War against Saddam, ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea and the United States struck a new deal Sunday that increases Seoul's contribution for the cost of the American military presence on its soil, overcoming previous failed negotiations that caused worries about their decades-long alliance. ...

Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward 'Eddie' Gallagher not only stabbed to death a teenage wounded Islamic State prisoner of war during a 2017 deployment to Iraq, according to an officer in his chain of command, but the SEAL also called in 'false target coordinates to engage a mosque, ...

Another hero of Afghanistan's notorious Combat Outpost Keating will have his Silver Star elevated to the military's second highest award for valor, according to a release from the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Maj. Tom Bostick was serving as commander of B Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, ...

WASHINGTON — Defense leaders told Congress Thursday that if they want to improve military readiness, they have to think about bettering military daycare. 'One common thread I hear at every fleet visit among sailors in all pay grades is accessibility and affordability of quality childcare, ...

Drill instructors, recruits and others aboard the Parris Island, South Carolina, recruit depot tried to recreate a living Marine Corps emblem to mark the centennial of the first time it was attempted. But, after posting a side by side of the original living Eagle, Globe, and Anchor, ...

The Georgia Air National Guard is about to deploy its first black female pilot, Guard officials announced this week. 1st Lt. Andrea Lewis, an E-8C Joint STARS copilot with the 116th Air Control Wing, is already the first black female pilot in the history of the Georgia ANG. Soon, ...

WASHINGTON — A day after President Donald Trump defended plans to pull troops from Syria in his State of the Union address, a top Pentagon official said a withdrawal would make the military less effective against the Islamic State group and that he didn't understand the strategic thinking behind it. ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Army soldiers struggle to haul heavy sleds backward as fast as they can down a grassy field at Fort Bragg, filling the brisk North Carolina morning air with grunts of exertion and the shouts of instruction from their coaches. Watching from the sidelines, Sgt. Maj. ...

It was St. Patrick's Day 2017, and Spc. Kevin Holyan was celebrating a friend's promotion at a home near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Drinks were had, and at one point, Holyan took out his Glock 23 pistol ― which he kept stored at that friend's house, ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expects coalition forces to announce as early as next week that they have reclaimed all of the territory once held by Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria, a major milestone in the ongoing fight there. 'Over the past two years we have retaken 20, ...

WASHINGTON — America will not cede leadership of the fight against the Islamic State group, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday, ...

A key characteristic of a good leader is one's ability to put pride aside and admit one's own mistakes. That's exactly what Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard Bureau, ...

BEIRUT — The Islamic State gunmen came out of hiding in the middle of the night and set up a checkpoint on a rural road in eastern Syria. For several hours, they stopped those passing and searched through their mobile phones to check their allegiances, until they vanished again into the desert. ...

JOHANNESBURG — The United States said Wednesday it is cutting some military aid to Cameroon over human rights concerns after growing allegations of abuses by security forces, ...

The Defense Department doesn't want to lose its irregular warfare edge, honed through more than a decade of conflict across the Middle East, even as it directs its armed forces to refocus on state-level adversaries. Retaining the U.S. ...