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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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt The number of insurgent attacks has increased, officials say, as Iraq and the United States negotiate a plan to wind down the U.S.-led military mission. American and [...]

The number of insurgent attacks has increased, officials say, as Iraq and the United States negotiate a plan to wind down the U.S.-led military mission. American and Iraqi commandos raided [...]

Israel has achieved all that it can militarily in Gaza, according to senior American officials, who say continued bombings are only increasing risks to civilians while the possibility of further [...]

Weapons donations from the United States and European countries will take weeks, if not months, to reach the front lines. Despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance [...]

The move could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war. The Biden administration continues to say there will be no American troops on the ground. NATO [...]

The Biden administration says it is still waiting to see a detailed plan for how Israeli forces plan to evacuate civilians from the city of Rafah. For months, the Biden [...]

The status of a $110 million air base in the desert remains unclear as the West African country deepens its ties with Russia. More than 1,000 American military personnel will [...]

In anticipation of the Iranian strikes, several countries, including the United States, issued new guidelines to their citizens about travel in Israel and the surrounding region. American intelligence analysts and [...]

The meeting came amid growing friction between the two allies. Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and the U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, met at the Pentagon on Tuesday [...]

The meeting came amid growing friction between the two allies. Israel’s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, and the U.S. defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, met at the Pentagon on Tuesday [...]

A short-term measure carries political and military risks as the Biden administration considers whether to tap into U.S. stockpiles again. The Biden administration is considering whether to provide Ukraine with [...]

The fall of Avdiivka to Russia may be more significant than it initially seemed as Ukraine struggles with morale and recruitment. Hundreds of Ukrainian troops may have been captured by [...]

On a barren swath of land in the Sahara, U.S. Air Base 201 stands far from public sight, on the outskirts of a remote city in one of the world's [...]

Analysts say the announcement could signal a shift to the more limited and targeted war against Hamas that the United States has been urging. The Israeli military said on Monday [...]

The document codifies procedures for U.S. combat but does not address operations the United States supports through military aid alone. The Pentagon has established new procedures for preventing and responding [...]

The decision is a shift from last week, when a U.S. official said the pilots could be trained in the United States if European training programs reached capacity. The Pentagon [...]

American strategists say Ukraine's troops are too spread out and need to concentrate along the counteroffensive's main front in the south. Ukraine's grinding counteroffensive is struggling to break through entrenched [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine acknowledged on Friday that his country’s counteroffensive against dug-in Russian troops https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/us/politics/ukraine-leopards-bradleys-counteroffensive.html? because the operation got off to a late start. “We did have plans [...]

With Ukraine burning through stockpiles of conventional artillery, President Biden concluded that he had little choice but to provide the weapons. President Biden defended his decision on Friday to provide [...]

Ukraine is seeking cluster munitions, which are known to cause grievous injuries to civilians, as its ammunition supply runs low. For more than six months, President Biden and his aides [...]

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, may have believed he had support in Russia’s military. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/28/world/russia-ukraine-news/6eec528b-3512-5acc-bbcf-46d7628e55f1?smid=url-share A senior Russian general had advance knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plans to rebel against [...]

A blunt statement, accompanied by a slickly produced video of Ukrainian troops preparing for battle, appeared designed to rally the nation and to spread anxiety among Russian forces. Ukraine's top [...]

The president told allied leaders that he would allow Ukrainian pilots to be trained on American-made F-16s, and is prepared to approve other countries' transferring the jets to Ukraine. President [...]

The United States is resisting a European push for the powerful fighters. But will it relent, as it did before with tanks, rocket launchers and air defense missiles? A fresh [...]

A day after the Pentagon said it was investigating how classified Western plans to aid Ukraine’s military against Russia were published on social media, each side suggested that the leak [...]

U.S. officials say they are preparing to surge forces in the event of conflict with China, including over Taiwan, but do not intend to build up permanent bases. WASHINGTON -- [...]

If the usual script plays out, the Biden administration's reluctance to provide the planes could be temporary, officials say. WASHINGTON -- For Ukraine, the United States and its NATO allies, [...]

Byline: Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt The Biden administration had resisted sending tanks, which Ukraine says it needs, but the move is seen as likely to push Germany to approve [...]

The decision unlocked a flow of heavy arms from Europe and inched the United States and its NATO allies closer to direct conflict with Russia. WASHINGTON -- President Biden's announcement [...]

The West African country had demanded that French troops leave. France confirmed they would be out in a month. French troops in Burkina Faso will leave the West African country [...]

WASHINGTON — Reversing its longstanding resistance, the Biden administration plans to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, in what would be a major step in [...]

The United States plans to send Ukraine 90 Stryker armored combat vehicles as part of a roughly $2.5 billion shipment of arms and equipment that is expected to be announced [...]

The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. WASHINGTON -- For years, the United States [...]

Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia. WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is tapping into a vast but little-known stockpile of American ammunition [...]

WASHINGTON — The United States plans a sharp increase in the number of Ukrainian troops it instructs at a base in Germany, with a new focus on advanced battlefield tactics, [...]

A new administration in Somalia has launched an offensive against Al Shabab, which are also facing an uprising from local militias. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is weighing a request [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt The mission in Germany would streamline a training and assistance system that the United States and its allies created on the fly after Russia's invasion, officials said. [...]

The mission in Germany would streamline a training and assistance system that the United States and its allies created on the fly after Russia's invasion, officials said. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

The Russian president has rejected requests from commanders in the field that they be allowed to retreat from Kherson, a vital city in Ukraine's south. WASHINGTON -- President Vladimir V. [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to make a dramatic move in the war against Russia. U.S. and Ukrainian officials came up with a plan. WASHINGTON -- The strategy behind Ukraine's rapid [...]

A Pentagon plan envisions broad changes to military doctrine, planning and training aimed at mitigating the risk of harm to noncombatants. WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Thursday announced sweeping changes [...]

The confrontation threatens to overwhelm President Biden's efforts to find a series of issues in which the United States and China can work together. The Biden administration is vowing to [...]

Byline: Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay The potential delivery of hundreds of Iranian drones would help the Kremlin replenish a fleet that has suffered steep losses in Ukraine. [...]

Differing objectives foreshadow a coming debate about what position President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and his Western allies would take if negotiations to end the conflict finally get going. WASHINGTON [...]

The Kremlin is trying to find enough reinforcements to conduct the next phase of the war, according to military and intelligence officials. WASHINGTON -- As Russian troops retreat from northern [...]

Tens of thousands of people, including Americans, could flee across the border if Russia launches a full invasion of Ukraine. WASHINGTON -- Many of the nearly 5,000 troops from the [...]

Top national security aides to former President Trump also talked him out of launching military raids against drug cartels inside Mexico. WASHINGTON -- President Trump's defense secretary thought the idea [...]

Gen. Mark Milley will appear in what could be the most significant televised congressional hearing involving senior military leaders in years. WASHINGTON -- Nearly 16 months after he walked across [...]