Defense

President Donald Trump talks to reporters during a tour of White House Ballroom construction at the White House.

‘Midterms were lost when Trump started the war and then refused to finish it’: Tiana Lowe Doescher

Britta Miller · November 5, 2026 10:59 am

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivers remarks to junior officers and enlisted leaders during a State of the Force address.

Democrats salivate over Pentagon oversight with new majorities

L-r: Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and War Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Massie gives Hegseth impeachment ultimatum as GOP pins blue wave on Iran war

Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from left, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Michael A. Needham, counselor and director of the State Department's Office of Policy Planning, listen as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, in Washington.

Is Pete Hegseth’s job safe with Iran war taking the blame for blue wave?

United States Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby.

Senior Pentagon leaders meet with NATO allies ‘that are rapidly and fully meeting’ their commitments

Russia launches missiles in ‘heavy attack’ on western Ukraine: Reports

Victor I. Nava May 17, 2022 6:57 am

Ukrainian troops evacuate from Mariupol steel plant after 82-day standoff

Victor I. Nava May 17, 2022 4:32 am

Military bases in US and abroad hit by baby formula shortage

Mike Brest May 16, 2022 8:36 pm

Biden greenlights plan to redeploy hundreds of troops to Somalia

Mike Brest May 16, 2022 5:12 pm

Biden should name Russia a state sponsor of terrorism, McConnell says

Mike Brest May 16, 2022 3:44 pm

Russia has lost a third of its ground forces committed to Ukraine, UK says

Mike Brest May 16, 2022 2:58 pm

Ukraine drives Russians out of Kharkiv, plants flag on border with Russia, officials say

Victor I. Nava May 16, 2022 7:39 am

Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby holds a press briefing, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Feb. 22, 2021.

Pentagon to rotate more than 10,000 troops to Europe amid Ukraine war

Mike Brest May 13, 2022 8:30 pm

Russian media present ‘alternate universe’ coverage of war in Ukraine: Diplomat

Mike Brest May 13, 2022 5:44 pm

WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner is escorted to a courtroom for a hearing in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 27, 2022. Griner is to appear in court Monday for a preliminary hearing ahead of her trial.

Brittney Griner’s ‘wrongful’ Russian detention extended by month: Report

Mike Brest May 13, 2022 3:44 pm

Russia continues to suffer battlefield setbacks in Ukraine’s north

Jamie McIntyre May 13, 2022 11:22 am

In this photo provided by Azov Special Forces Regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard Press Office, an Azov Special Forces Regiment's serviceman, injured during fighting against Russian forces, poses for a photographer inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 10, 2022.

‘Nobody attempts to save them’: Relatives of trapped Ukrainian soldiers protest at Zelensky’s palace

Victor I. Nava May 13, 2022 6:10 am