WASHINGTON: Pentagon leaders are finalizing plans aimed at lifting the ban on transgender individuals in the U.S. military, with the goal of formally ending...
HAIPHONG, Vietnam: U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says he'll find out who was responsible for the mistaken shipments of live anthrax to 11 states and two...
REDWOOD CITY, United States: A new Pentagon cybersecurity strategy lays out for the first time publicly that the U.S. military plans to use cyberwarfare as an...
WASHINGTON: The top U.S. general in South America says about 100 would-be militants have left the region to go fight with Islamic extremists in Syria. Gen....
WASHINGTON: A senior U.S. official confirms that the top recruiter for ISIS' affiliate in Afghanistan was killed in a U.S. drone strike Monday.The official...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has spent as much as $1.1 billion on U.S. military operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria since the mission began in mid-June,...
WASHINGTON: Far fewer refugees remain on Iraq's Sinjar Mountain and a U.S.-led rescue mission is far less likely, U.S. officials said. A team of U.S....
SYDNEY: The Obama administration has begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in northern...
PARIS: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at a U.S. military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his...
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan: U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel flew to Afghanistan Sunday to talk to commanders about the progress of the Afghan forces as...
WASHINGTON: U.S. Defense Department rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on...
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is poised to announce the sale of nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, U.S. officials said. The...
CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says he will visit Libya, becoming the first Pentagon chief to travel to the embattled country,...
WASHINGTON: As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China-based cyber attacks stealing...