Alex Horton

Air defenses failed to intercept an attack drone that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan because the aircraft was mistaken for a friendly drone, officials said.

The drone that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan probably went undetected, and no air defense was on site capable of shooting it down, early assessment finds.

With hundreds of thousands dead or wounded and still no end in sight, the Ukraine-Russia war has shown the Pentagon that its calculations must evolve.

It will take weeks and about 1,000 U.S. troops to mobilize and build a sprawling temporary pier off the Gaza coast, the Pentagon said.

The circuitous supply of Iranian-made weapons to Ukraine comes as Russia mounts an aggressive push and House Republicans stall further U.S. military assistance.

The Post was granted a rare embed with Navy SEALs and Green Berets as the Pentagon, wary of war with Russia or China, stress-tested its Arctic readiness.

After a Washington Post investigation, authorities charged ex-Army counselor Caz Craffy with siphoning millions of dollars from deceased soldiers’ families.

It will take less than a week, U.S. officials say, for a resupply of some weapons to reach Ukraine once a $95 billion foreign bill clears Congress.

The Biden administration also disclosed it had secretly delivered long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, which were used to target a Russian airfield in Crimea.

A new U.S. military assessment affirms Washington Post reporting that cast doubt on officials’ initial claim to have slain a senior al-Qaeda operative in Syria.