Subscribe to the Daily News Brief. The United States maintains a considerable military presence in the Middle East, with forces in more than a dozen countries and on ships throughout the region ...

Noel Anderson is a 2025 Non-Resident Fellow with the Irregular Warfare Initiative, a 501(c)3 partnered with Princeton's Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and the Modern War Institute at West ...

Indonesia’s parliament has ratified a contentious law allowing members of the military to hold more government roles, despite criticisms that it could expand the armed forces’ role in civilian ...

MANILA, Philippines — The country’s balance of payments (BOP) position returned to a surplus of $3.1 billion in February, the highest in five months. Latest data from the Bangko Sentral ng ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced his military’s top official ahead of a call Tuesday between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in ...

Loans that to date have never been recalled. Since 1997, the program has provided more than $1.5 billion in military surplus equipment to local law enforcement, but critics of the program see it ...

WASHINGTON − Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to look into how its fitness standards have changed since 2015 – the year the military announced it would open all its jobs ...

He put on a Kevlar vest, loaded his gun, and called 911 while anticipating that Siragusa would lead the intruders to his location. "I was just like, 'She is definitely going to take them here ...

"Our troops will look sharp -- not sloppy," he continued, adding that the Defense Department "will make standards high and great again -- across the entire force." Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot ...

WASHINGTON -- Military service leaders told senators Wednesday that passing a temporary budget that keeps defense spending largely flat will hurt readiness and efforts to modernize the armed forces.

The Israeli military is investigating soldiers’ use of Palestinian civilians as human shields during operations in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN on Tuesday night. This is the ...

but warned that the remaining hostages are at grave risk as the attackers are reportedly wearing suicide vests loaded with explosives. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility ...