Pentagon Reveals More Yemen Strikes Were Carried Out as Progressives in Congress Bristle The U.S. and U.K. strikes on Houthi targets inside Yemen were nearly twice as large as previously disclosed,
US Airstrike in Baghdad Kills Militia Leader Amid Growing American Involvement in Regional Violence The strike in the capital city jarred U.S. relations with Iraq and is the latest military action in the region as conflict...
Navy Destroyer Crew Receives Combat Award for Shooting Down Drones as Houthi Attacks Intensify in Red Sea Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of the Navy's forces in the Middle East, visited the ship and presented five awards to...
The US Wanted Out of the Middle East. The Middle East Had Other Ideas. Two decades of war in the Middle East, a war that much of the American public is eager to move on from, have made military...
5 Purple Hearts Awarded to Injured Troops After Spike in Attacks on Bases in Iraq, Syria U.S. and coalition forces have been attacked 97 times since Oct. 17, a defense official told Military.com.
Israel’s Assassinations Road to Perdition The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israel's intelligence services to launch an assassination...
American Forces Must Strike Iran to Protect US Troops "The disproportionate scale of Iranian attacks to American responses lays bare that Iran, not the U.S., holds deterrence in...
Pentagon Preparing for Red Sea Task Force to Protect Commercial Vessels from Houthi Rebel Attacks The Pentagon said it's ready to help set up a maritime task force among allied nations to protect merchant shipping in the...
Incidents with Navy Ships and Rising Tensions in the Red Sea Test Pentagon's Deterrence Claims The uptick in attacks, and the apparent targeting of merchant shipping, appears to be part of a concerted campaign by the...
Retaliatory US Airstrikes Are Starting to Raise Tensions and Draw Ire in Middle East The U.S. presence in the region has grown dramatically since Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, launched a brutal and bloody...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...