Pentagon asks DHS to justify moving funds for Trump's border wall
The Pentagon said Thursday that it has asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a priorities list to justify using military funds to build President Trump's desired border wall.“We’ve asked...
View ArticleTrump to leave 200 US troops in Syria as 'peacekeeping' force
The Trump administration will leave 200 U.S. troops in Syria to act as “a small peacekeeping group” for an unknown amount of time after it pulls most forces from the country, the White House said on...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Trump to leave 200 troops in Syria | Trump, Kim plan...
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View ArticleNATO study experimented with using social media to influence soldiers
A research group affiliated with with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) found it was able to "instill undesirable behavior" in soldiers and gain "very detailed" personal information about...
View ArticleWhite House says 200 troops to remain in Syria ‘a rough estimate’
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday described its plan to leave 200 troops in Syria as a “rough estimate,” and “not a specific number.”“We're in constant contact with our allies, we’re...
View ArticleTrump administration agrees to keep 400 troops in Syria
The Trump administration is now planning to leave roughly 400 U.S. troops in Syria indefinitely after withdrawing from the country, double the amount the White House announced a day prior.A senior...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Dems tee up Tuesday vote against Trump's emergency...
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View ArticlePentagon won't say if it will seek congressional approval to move...
Pentagon officials on Friday would not say whether the Defense Department will seek approval from Congress before it moves billions of dollars from its counter-drug program coffers to fund President...
View ArticleTrump administration directs 1,000 more troops to Mexican border
The Pentagon announced Friday that it would direct an additional 1,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to install barbed wire along existing border fences.Defense officials said at a news briefing...
View ArticleQuestions swirl around Trump's North Korea summit
Questions are swirling about what, if anything, will be accomplished when President Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next week in Vietnam.Senior administration officials have done...
View ArticleShanahan visits US-Mexico border as Pentagon weighs moving funds for...
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan toured the U.S.-Mexico border on Saturday as the Pentagon weighs reallocating billions of dollars in funding for President Trump's border wall.The Associated...
View ArticleTrump backs off total Syria withdrawal
Months of pressure from U.S. lawmakers, European allies and defense officials has forced President Trump to backtrack on one of the biggest decisions made in his two years in the White House: His plan...
View ArticleTrump strikes optimistic note ahead of meeting with North Korea's Kim
President Trump on Sunday expressed optimism ahead of his summit this week with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, even as experts have cast uncertainty on how productive the meeting will be.Trump in a...
View ArticleJudge rules all-male military draft unconstitutional
A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that the all-male military draft is unconstitutional.U.S. District Judge Gray Miller of the Southern District of Texas wrote in an opinion that the "time has...
View ArticleTaliban political chief to attend peace talks with US: report
Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will attend peace talks this week in Doha between the United States and the Taliban, the government of Qatar said Sunday, according to Reuters.Reuters...
View ArticleUS soldiers involved in auto wreck in Poland
Six U.S. soldiers were hospitalized on Sunday after they were involved in an auto wreck in Poland, CNN reported.The Army said in a statement to CNN that the accident happened at about 2 p.m. in...
View ArticleWhite House to propose using budget maneuver to prevent defense spending cuts
President Trump plans to propose using a budget maneuver to invest in defense and national security without lifting budget caps, according to acting Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought...
View ArticleUS Navy sails more ships through Taiwan Strait
The U.S. Navy on Monday sailed two ships through the Taiwan Strait in the latest show of U.S. military power to China, which has increased its own military drills over Taiwan.Reuters reported that the...
View ArticleTrump announces recovery of US citizen held hostage in Yemen
President Trump said Monday that a U.S. citizen held captive in Yemen for more than a year has been reunited with his family.The president announced on Twitter that Danny Burch "has been recovered and...
View ArticleAirstrike kills 35 al-Shabaab extremists, US military says
The U.S. military has killed 35 fighters from al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab in an airstrike in Somalia near the Ethiopian border, U.S. Africa Command (Africom) said Monday.In a statement, Africom said...
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