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President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security [...]

The defense secretary has told senior leaders to prepare to trim 8 percent from the budget over each of the next five years, officials said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has [...]

The covert program, begun during the Biden administration and stepped up by President Trump, is hunting for the location of fentanyl labs. The United States has stepped up secret drone [...]

It was a crash course in geopolitical realities as the new defense secretary stepped onto the world stage. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has had a rocky trip to Europe this [...]

The American schools at the NATO headquarters were scrambling to comply with Trump diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks. An expected visit from Pete Hegseth's wife intensified that effort. Harriet Tubman [...]

Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America's adversaries. In his three weeks on the job, Defense Secretary [...]

The Trump administration said the 10 men who were sent to a prison on the base at Guantánamo Bay are affiliated with gangs. The Trump administration is holding 10 migrants [...]

Within hours of his inauguration, Mr. Trump began to pull security details from nearly a half-dozen people who had served in his first term, most of them under threat for [...]

The Army pilots were juggling dark skies, low altitude, a busy airspace and a cockpit without certain traffic detectors before the helicopter's midair crash with a regional passenger jet. Flying [...]

About 300 servicemembers have arrived in recent days as the base faces its most drastic changes since the Pentagon opened a prison there after the Sept. 11 attacks. About 300 [...]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that ''multiple operatives'' had been killed in remote mountains in the country's north. President Trump ordered airstrikes on Saturday against the Islamic State in northern [...]

The service is often responsible for ferrying lawmakers and other V.I.P.'s across the area, and near Reagan National Airport. The Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet [...]

Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general's ''brilliance and fortitude.'' And then the president got angry. In the last days of 2019, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the [...]

''Whatever is needed at the border will be provided,'' Pete Hegseth, the new defense secretary, told reporters on Monday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived on Monday for his first full [...]

The new defense secretary's goals run counter to the military's apolitical tradition and efforts to build a force that mirrors America. Pete Hegseth, the newly confirmed defense secretary, has pledged [...]

The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president's early actions. In [...]

The troops will join 2,500 Army Reserve and National Guard soldiers who've been called to active duty in recent months. The Pentagon said on Wednesday that it would send 1,500 [...]

Pete Hegseth emerged from a Senate committee hearing with the support of the Republican Party intact following weeks of scrutiny over his qualifications and allegations of misconduct. Pete Hegseth, President-elect [...]

The long-range missiles provided by the United States and Britain were used to strike inside Russian territory, despite concerns that their use would escalate the conflict. Kyiv's stockpiles are running [...]

U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces say they have come under fresh attack in several places by a Turkish-backed militia, even as Washington seeks a lasting cease-fire. Battles between Kurdish and Turkish-backed fighters [...]

In a highly unusual call, the two men ''discussed a number of global and regional security issues, to include the ongoing conflict in Ukraine,'' a spokesman said. Gen. Valery V. [...]

Lt. Gen. Christopher T. Donahue commanded U.S. troops in the final days of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. It ended as quietly as it began: A Republican senator has dropped his [...]

The intermediate-range missile did not carry nuclear weapons, but it is part of a strategic arsenal that is capable of delivering them. President Vladimir V. Putin escalated a tense showdown [...]

One question is whether the new administration and Europe will provide security guarantees to prevent Russia from taking more territory. Two years ago, Gen. Mark A. Milley, then the chief [...]

Israel's failure to tamp down the short-range rocket threat has put pressure on its government to embrace a cease-fire. Hezbollah has suffered crushing setbacks in Israel's bombardment of Lebanon and [...]

The attack came just days after President Biden gave Ukraine permission to use the weapons to strike targets inside Russia. Ukraine's military used American-made ballistic missiles on Tuesday to strike [...]

With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the [...]

Pete Hegseth has criticized the Pentagon leadership for its diversity efforts and vocally supported service members accused of war crimes. The U.S. Defense Department is an $849 billion enterprise with [...]

Ukrainian officials expect a counteroffensive in western Russia to begin in the coming days as North Korea's troops train with Russian forces. The Russian military has assembled a force of [...]

Weapons supplies are no longer Ukraine's main disadvantage, American military officials say. American military and intelligence officials have concluded that the war in Ukraine is no longer a stalemate as [...]

A muted response to Ukraine's ''victory plan'' and steep challenges on the battlefield leave Kyiv searching for a Plan B. For weeks, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has pushed Western [...]

Experts inside and outside the Biden administration fear that Iran may conclude it has only one defense left: racing for an atomic weapon. When Israeli fighter jets roared off the [...]

Thousands of soldiers from an elite unit of the Korean People's Army began arriving on Wednesday and are expected to try to help expel Ukrainian forces from Russian territory. Several [...]

Lloyd J. Austin III, the U.S. secretary of defense, said Wednesday that Washington had not seen proof of Israeli claims that Hezbollah had set up a bunker complex under a [...]

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III called the situation ''very, very serious,'' though he said that what the soldiers were doing in Russia was ''left to be seen.'' North Korea [...]

The move, confirmed by a Pentagon official, is in line with a U.S. policy change aimed at shoring up Ukraine's ability to fight the war against Russia with its own [...]

The trip by the U.S. defense secretary comes as Russian forces steadily gain territory in eastern Ukraine. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Monday offered full-throated support for Ukraine's [...]

American commandos and intelligence officers began helping Israel soon after the Oct. 7 attacks last year. Days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Pentagon quietly dispatched several [...]

Pentagon officials discuss whether the flow of assistance could be hurting the military's ability to respond to a new conflict. Nearly every week for months, the Biden administration has announced [...]

More than 600,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded since the war began in 2022. September was the bloodiest month of the war for Russian forces in Ukraine, U.S. [...]

The conversation carried the weight of the worst relationship between the United States and Israel in years. For the first time in two months, President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin [...]

For 22 years, Israeli forces have planned for this moment. But it seems unlikely that they will strike Iran's nuclear facilities in the next round of retaliation, or that they [...]

Military officials discuss whether sending more force to the Middle East is helping to prevent a much wider war, or emboldening Israel. As the Israeli offensive in Lebanon expands to [...]

Israel seems ready to respond in a much more forceful and public way with Iran after Tehran launched its second massive missile attack on Israel this year, analysts and officials [...]

The 180 missiles fired at Israel on Tuesday evening sharply escalated the conflict between the two countries and threatened to engulf the Middle East in all-out war. Iran fired waves [...]

The Lebanese militia is seeking more weapons from Iran, the officials said. It has yet to fire large barrages at Israel, and its top ranks have been crippled by Israeli [...]

The missile production facility was destroyed in the attack, according to Western officials. Syrian state media reported that 18 people were killed in the strike. Israel carried out a commando […]

The topic will be on the agenda Friday as Britain's new prime minister, Keir Starmer, visits the White House. President Biden appears on the verge of clearing the way for [...]

The Ukrainian president gave no reason, but there are indications that friendly fire may have brought down the jet, a Western official said. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine dismissed the [...]

A Western official said the advanced fighter crashed while defending against a Russian aerial assault. It was not clear how it was destroyed, but the loss is a blow to [...]