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State Department budget 2016 includes $75 million to 'counter Russian...
Amid the growing threat of the Islamic State group, a trouble-making Russia and the influx of Central American children flooding the southern border last year, President Barack Obama is calling for the...
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Why the US military is suddenly so secretive about Afghanistan
Last week, the New York Times broke a three-month old story on the classification by the American military of previously unclassified Afghan National Security Forces data.The Special Inspector General...
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Russia wants to delay a plan that would create an aviation warning system...
Russia clashed with Europe and the United States on Tuesday over the aviation industry's response to the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner, calling for a delay in plans to establish a warning...
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Russia continues massive military modernization despite economic woes
MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of new Russian aircraft, tanks and missiles are rolling off assembly lines. Russian jets roar through European skies under NATO's wary eye. Tens of thousands of troops take part...
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Saudi Arabia and Pakistan may have just renewed a secret nuclear weapons pact
The visit by the chairman of Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee will likely prompt concern in Washington and other major capitals that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have reconfirmed an arrangement...
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7 reasons why Russia-backed separatists are winning in Ukraine
The situation is Ukraine is bad and getting worse, to the point where the U.S. is considering sending lethal aid as many experts are saying America is running out of time to blunt Russian aggression...
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Former CIA official paints a bleak picture of the war against ISIS
Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell gave a bleak assessment during an interview on "CBS This Morning" on the number of troops necessary to fully uproot ISIS from its bases of operations in Iraq...
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The next US defense secretary says he'll consider keeping the A-10
Defense Secretary nominee Ashton Carter agreed Wednesday to hear arguments from Joint Tactical Air Controllers (JTACS) for keeping the A-10 despite renewed efforts by the Air Force to retire the...
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Russian-backed rebels say they conducted their first airstrike against Ukraine
Russian-backed separatists say that they have conducted their first air strike on Ukrainian forces.According to reports on several news outlets, including the Russian RIA-Novosti press agency, a Su-25...
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King Abdullah II of Jordan pumps up troops before they jump out of a plane
King Abdullah II, a former commander of Jordan's Special Forces, sent F-16's to launch 20 airstrikes against ISIS militants after the brutal execution of captured Jordanian pilot. Jordan's King...
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The Pentagon will spend nearly $400 billion for thousands more warplanes over...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's plans to fund 50 percent more F-35 fighter jets in fiscal 2016 will help drive down the price of the new plane and its engine, a top official with enginemaker...
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Here's a first person view of a tank blowing up targets
Tanks firing isn’t something many people think of as requiring marksmanship, but tankers take it very seriously. A new video shows Marines engaging targets at the range, and most of the footage is from...
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Putin-backed rebels just made a huge move right under Europe's nose
On the eve of Angela Merkel and François Hollande's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) made a concrete push for Putin's vision of eastern...
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Nigeria has been forced to postpone elections because of Boko Haram
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Nigeria's electoral commission will postpone Feb. 14 presidential and legislative elections for six weeks to give a new multinational force time to secure northeastern areas under...
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Iran now has a window of influence on Saudi Arabia's doorstep
The receptiveness that many Zaidi leaders have shown toward Iran's foreign policy and religious practice give Tehran a ready means to expand its reach in Yemen.The Houthi coup and other recent...
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Russia conducted nuclear submarine exercises beneath the North Pole
Russian nuclear units carried out Arctic exercises in international waters beneath the North Pole over the weekend, Damien Sharkov reports for Newsweek. The exercise featured the presence of several...
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ISIS is pulling resources away from Syria's biggest front line
AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State has withdrawn some of its insurgents and equipment from areas northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, rebels and residents say, adding to signs of strain in the Syrian...
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The US is running out of airstrike targets in ISIS's capital
The U.S.-led coalition killed roughly 30 Islamic State group militants with just one airstrike on the group’s Syrian headquarters of Raqqa on Friday. That was one of the heaviest single blows since...
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Intense photos show how crazy things are getting in Ukraine
As Europe and the US debate whether or not to arm the Ukrainian military, the situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine is degenerating with astounding speed as Russian-backed separatists push their...
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Radicalism in Egypt may become the main risk to the US's interests in the...
Far from being dead, or even on the defense, groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) are proliferating. Radical Islamists now control more territory than since the first decades of the...
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