US Military

Thousands of active-duty service members have failed to comply with the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, raising the prospect that they will be forced to leave their positions or the military altogether. The vaccination deadline for active-duty members of the armed services has passed for the Air Force, Navy and the Marine Corps. The Army’s deadline is Dec. 15. Despite the...

President Joe Biden is using his first Veterans Day in office to announce an effort to better understand, treat and identify medical conditions suffered by troops deployed to toxic environments

Rescue workers and a war monitor say a drone strike has hit a vehicle traveling on a rural road in rebel-controlled northwestern Syria, killing at least one person

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified Monday about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th birthday

A new study finds that about a third of the female service members in the Air Force and Space Force say they’ve experienced sexual harassment and many can describe accounts of sexism and a stigma associated with pregnancy and maternity leave

As the final five U.S. military transport aircraft lifted off out of Afghanistan on Monday, they left behind fewer than 200 Americans and thousands of desperate Afghans who couldn’t get out and now must rely on the Taliban to allow their departure

U.S. military aircraft are ferrying food, tarps and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people hit by the recent earthquake to make it through hurricane season

A bell rang 13 times on Cape Cod Friday night — once for each U.S. service member killed less than 48 hours earlier in Kabul’s suicide bombing. “When it happens it just breaks your heart. It changes your life forever. Your nightmare has come true,” said State Rep. Steven Xiarhos, whose son Nicholas died in 2009 while serving in Afghanistan….

State Rep. Steven Xiarhos, whose son Nicholas died in 2009 while fighting in Afghanistan, organized Friday’s memorial service that recognized the 13 U.S. service members killed in Thursday’s suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.

President Biden has been considering whether to extend his self-imposed deadline for completing the airlift by Aug. 31 while the Taliban warned that extending American presence would “provoke a reaction.”

President Biden’s national security adviser said that 3,900 people were airlifted out of Kabul over the past 24 hours.

Biden administration officials say the U.S. military is considering “creative ways” to get Americans and others into the Kabul airport for evacuation from Afghanistan amid “acute” security threats.

For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal

A former Air Force intelligence analyst has been sentenced to 45 months in prison for leaking top-secret information about the U.S. government’s drone strike program to a journalist

17 soldiers, a Marine and a Coast Guard member are vying for gold at the Tokyo Olympics, while serving their country in more ways than one.

Iraq’s prime minister says his country no longer requires U.S. combat troops to fight the Islamic State group. But he says a formal time frame for redeployment will depend on the outcome of talks with Washington this coming week.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that officials are on track to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Aug. 31. The president commended military leadership for achieving their counter-terror objectives in the region and defended the decision to withdraw, saying “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build. That is the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to...

President Joe Biden has put his stamp of approval on a long-debated change to the military justice system that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he will support long-debated changes to the military justice system that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders