Mexico and El Salvador Make Big Cocaine Seizures at Sea as US Continues Lethal Strikes El Salvador and Mexico have reported major cocaine seizures at sea this week, as U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats leave...
Trump Gets Pledges for Gaza Reconstruction and Troop Commitments at Inaugural Board of Peace Talks President Donald Trump announced at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion...
North Korean Leader Deploys 50 New Rocket Launchers Ahead of Major Party Congress North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un held a ceremony to unveil the deployment of 50 new launch vehicles for nuclear-capable...
Iran and the US Lean into Gunboat Diplomacy as Nuclear Talks Hang in Balance Iran and the United States leaned into gunboat diplomacy as nuclear talks between the nations hung in the balance, with...
Why Trump's Comment on Discussing Taiwan Arms Sales with China Has Raised Concerns U.S. President Donald Trump’s comment that he is discussing potential arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Envoys Signal No Breakthrough on Bridging Russia and Ukraine's Political and Military Differences The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine ended with no...
Indonesia Tightens Control on Nickel as the US and China Scramble for Critical Minerals Indonesia is tightening state control over the world’s largest nickel supply after years of betting the metal would anchor a...
Iran Says It Temporarily Closed the Strait of Hormuz as It Held More Indirect Talks with the US Iran announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire drills in a rare show of force as its negotiators...
Russian and Ukrainian Officials Meet in Geneva for US-Brokered Talks After Almost 4 Years of War Delegations from Moscow and Kyiv met in Geneva for another round of U.S.-brokered peace talks, a week before the fourth...
US Plans to Deploy More Missile Launchers to the Philippines Despite China's Alarm The United States plans to deploy more high-tech missile systems to the Philippines to help deter aggression in the South...
The Recruiting Surge Was Engineered. Can It Last in a War with Iran? The military’s recruiting surge didn’t happen by accident. New programs drove gains, but as the war with Iran grows...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
Army Speeds AI Warfighting Push as US Troops are in Active Combat An Army test used AI tools to hit 15 targets in one hour, signaling a rapid shift in how battlefield decisions are made and...
VA Study: Ozempic, Other GLP-1 Drugs May Fight Addiction Across Every Major Substance For the more than 48 million Americans with substance use disorders, including a disproportionate share of veterans, GLP-1...
After the Knock on the Door: How TAPS Supports Military Families for Life After a service member dies, families face a lifetime of grief. TAPS founder Bonnie Carroll explains how the organization...
![North Korea Korea Tensions](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-02/ApNewsroom_North_Korea_Korea_Tensions_62125.jpg?itok=Z_5NU951 "In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un attends a military ceremony in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)")
![Taiwan China US](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-02/ApNewsroom_Taiwan_China_US_36703.jpg?itok=a4yUcOTN "In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te speaks during a press conference on "Taiwan-U.S. Economic Prosperity Partnership" in Taipei, Taiwan on Feb. 3, 2026. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)")
![Philippines-US-Missiles](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2026-02/ApNewsroom_Philippines-US-Missiles_88065.jpg?itok=1qBXgAr- "A U.S. M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) fires a missile during a Combined Joint Littoral Live Fire Exercise at the joint military exercise called "Balikatan", Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder in a Naval station in Zambales province, northern Philippines on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)")
