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World
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International
10/27/2022 6:33:00 PM
China remains the greatest security challenge for the United States despite Russia's war in Ukraine, and the threat from Beijing will determine how the U.S. military is equipped and shaped for the future, according to a new Pentagon defense strategy.
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World
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War in Ukraine
10/16/2022 3:00:26 PM
Billionaire Elon Musk suggested in a Saturday tweet that his rocket company SpaceX may continue to fund its satellite-based Starlink internet service in Ukraine. But Musk's tone and wording also raised the possibility that the irascible Tesla CEO was just being sarcastic.
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Opinion
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9/15/2022 1:18:47 PM
It has been 21 years since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001. These attacks are remembered by Americans with sadness and sorrow, as they took away the lives of thousands of innocent people who happened to be at the World Trade Centre in New York, in Pennsylvania, or at the Pentagon building in Washington.
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World
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International
9/11/2022 4:41:05 PM
President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, laying a wreath at the Pentagon in a somber commemoration held under a steady rain and paying tribute to "extraordinary Americans" who gave their lives on one of the nation's darkest days.
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World
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International
9/11/2022 2:59:36 PM
Americans are remembering 9/11 with moments of silence, readings of victims' names, volunteer work and other tributes 21 years after the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil.
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World
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International
9/6/2022 8:35:12 PM
The US military will test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday, the Pentagon announced, in the second such practice operation of the country's nuclear defense in less than a month.
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World
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Region
8/25/2022 11:07:37 AM
US military airstrikes in eastern Syria were a message to Iran and Tehran-backed militias that targeted American troops this month and several other times over the past year, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
8/17/2022 6:36:47 PM
The Pentagon said Wednesday that US forces killed 13 fighters of the al-Shabaab militant group in an airstrike in Somalia.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/8/2022 9:23:04 PM
A senior Pentagon official estimated Monday that as many as 80,000 Russians have been killed or wounded in Ukraine since the war began in late February
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World
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Region
7/12/2022 5:29:57 PM
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Syria in a drone strike.
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Egypt
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Defence
5/26/2022 11:44:13 PM
The US State Department has approved the potential sale of CH-47F Chinook helicopters and related equipment to Egypt, the Pentagon announced on Thursday, explaining that the possible sale will strengthen Egypt's homeland defence and deter regional threats.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/20/2022 9:21:31 PM
The US Defense Department on Wednesday retracted its claim Ukraine had been supplied with more aircraft, saying only parts had been delivered to enable Kyiv to put more jets into the fight against Russia.
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World
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International
4/20/2022 8:24:01 PM
Russia's test of a new nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile is not seen as threatening to the US and its allies, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/20/2022 12:53:19 PM
Russia is assaulting cities and towns across Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland in what both sides call a new phase of the war after losing about 25% of the combat power it sent into Ukraine, according to Pentagon estimates.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/19/2022 11:35:06 PM
Ukraine has received fighter planes and aircraft parts to bolster its air force in the face of Russia's invasion, the Pentagon said Tuesday, declining to specify the number and type of aircraft nor their origin.
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World
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Region
4/7/2022 7:48:53 PM
The Pentagon's top general said Thursday he was opposed to removing the elite Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guards from the US terror group list, one of Tehran's conditions for restoring the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/29/2022 10:25:58 PM
Russia is "repositioning" a small number of its forces near Kyiv but is not withdrawing and the Ukrainian capital remains under threat, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/26/2022 10:45:39 PM
Ukraine said Saturday that the United States does not object to the transfer of war planes to Kyiv to help it fend off the Russian invasion, after the Pentagon previously rejected an offer from Poland.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/9/2022 8:33:07 PM
The United States has sent two Patriot surface-to-air missile batteries to Poland to defend against any "potential threat" to US or NATO forces in the alliance's territory, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday, as Russia's war in Ukraine grinds on.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
2/28/2022 10:39:55 PM
US officials on Monday called Russian President Vladimir Putin's order to mobilize his nuclear forces "dangerous" but said they had not seen any indication of any change in the country's strategic threat.
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