Trump, Mattis Call for Renewed Commitment to War on Terror On the 9/11 anniversary, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pledged resilience against terrorism.
Report: Cost of Post-9/11 Wars To Taxpayers $23K Apiece A new estimate of the costs of the post-9/11 wars puts the total at $5.6 trillion, or $23,386 for each taxpayer. Read more.
5 US Troops Wounded in Afghanistan Suicide Attack on 9/11 Anniversary Five U.S. troops were wounded Monday when a suicide bomber drove a car bomb into an armored convoy outside Bagram Air Base.
Op-Ed: The War Against ISIS -- The End of the Beginning ISIS will find it easy to melt back into the population and to return to the insurgency tactics they used prior to June 2014.
US Defense Department Lifts Travel Ban for Paris, Brussels A series of travel restrictions for U.S. military personnel, their families and Defense Department civilians and contractors...
DoD Announces France Travel Ban U.S. military personnel, dependents and all Defense civilian contractors and employees may not travel to France, the DoD said...
Army Spouse Recounts Traveling in Paris at Time of Terrorist Attacks An Army spouse who was traveling in Paris at the time of the terrorist attacks says she relied on the instincts honed as a...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...