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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. РІР‚' The U.S. Coast Guard has seized nearly 35,000 pounds (15,000 kilograms) of cocaine from apparent drug smuggling vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The drugs were off-loaded Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Cmdr. ...

When a person steps up and makes the personal sacrifice to serve our country, the U.S. military promises to take care of them. This is central to the fundamental contract our country makes with the brave men and women who join our armed forces. ...

CULVER, Ind. РІР‚' An Indiana veteran recently adopted the bomb-sniffing dog he served with in Afghanistan, and he says the retired canine is settling in to a pampered life. Army veteran Joseph Steenbeke served nearly a year in Afghanistan with a Belgian Malinois named Tess, who rarely left his side. ...

Picture this. A husband and wife doze peacefully in their quiet home in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture. They never lock their front door because РІР‚' in their cozy abode amidst friendly neighborhood environs РІР‚' they've never been given a reason to raise their guard. The man awakens just after 5 a.m. ...

The Corps took delivery of its first CH-53 King Stallion in May 2018, but since then the heavy-lift helicopter has faced a series of mechanical issues that are impacting its expected operational date. A Defense Department report said the CH-53K's initial operational capability milestone, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. РІР‚' The commissioning ceremony for one of the Navy's newest combat ships is set next month in South Carolina. Charleston officials said in a news release Monday that the littoral combat ship Charleston will be commissioned during a ceremony March 2. ...

A U.S. military intervention in Venezuela is still on the table, President Donald Trump said Sunday. The president was asked about his position on the crumbling South American country this weekend during an interview with CBS' Face the Nation. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' While the president visits Capitol Hill to deliver his delayed State of the Union address this week, the defense lawmakers will begin their work on the annual military authorization bill. ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' The Senate voted Monday to oppose the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and Afghanistan, breaking with President Donald Trump as he calls for a military drawdown in those countries. Senators voted 70-26 for the amendment sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. ...

BEIRUT РІР‚' The United States on Monday called on other nations to repatriate and prosecute their citizens who traveled to Syria to fight with the Islamic State group and who are now being held by Washington's local partners. ...

President Donald Trump reaffirmed his intention to withdraw the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, while adding that they will be shifted to Iraq, during an interview this weekend. From Iraq, U.S. forces would be well-positioned to push back into Syria if the Islamic State regroups, ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. РІР‚' President Donald Trump has appointed his former doctor to be his assistant and chief medical adviser. Saturday's announcement by the White House follows Trump's decision to re-nominate Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson for a second star due to inaction by the previous Congress. ...

CARACAS, Venezuela РІР‚' Venezuela's opposition leader called on more members of the military to abandon the country's socialist government following Saturday's defection of a high-ranking general, ...

MANILA, Philippines РІР‚' Philippine troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in fierce jungle fighting that left five soldiers and three militants dead, as the military pushed forward with a fresh offensive following a deadly church bombing last weekend. ...

The Coast Guard has identified the chief warrant officer who died after being injured in a Thursday crane accident in Homer, Alaska. Local emergency medical services personnel performed CPR on CWO2 Michael Kozloski and rushed him to South Peninsula Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' The Pentagon says it will send 3,750 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection. The additions announced Sunday will bring the total number of active-duty troops on the border to 4,350. ...

FARGO, N.D. РІР‚' James Buchli's path from Fargo to space was anything but meteoric. The first native North Dakotan to fly in space brought a wide-ranging resume to his application to be part of NASA's first space shuttle class in 1978. It included a stint aboard a submarine while in the Naval Academy, ...

A Navy SEAL who allegedly staged a reenlistment ceremony over the body of a dead Islamic State prisoner during the Battle of Mosul in Iraq and also hovered a drone over the corpse may have acted in 'poor taste' but didn't commit a war crime, a Navy judge has ruled. On Friday, ...

A barracks swindler assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego bilked a string of petty officers in California out of a combined $142,150, military prosecutors allege. Electrician's Mate Fireman Recruit Ko Ndali Aime David Land Kangha, 35, ...

WASHINGTON РІР‚' In a newly published interview with the New York Times, President Donald Trump claimed he forced former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to resign because 'I wasn't happy with the job that he was doing at all' and needed to make a change. 'I told Mattis to give me a letter (of resignation), ...