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Defense Department and war prosecutors locked in back-and-forth over plea deals for three 9/11 plotters

China claims reports of defence minister being investigated are ‘just shadow chasing’

Early this year, Pete Hegseth told a Fox News audience a new, Pentagon-funded study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces

Early this year, Pete Hegseth told a Fox News audience a new, Pentagon-funded study proved that the number of military service members and veterans involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection did not indicate a wider problem in the armed forces

Aircraft grounded the day lawmakers wrote to Lloyd Austin to re-ground entire fleet of V-22

Three lawmakers are asking Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to consider re-grounding the military's fleet of V-22 Ospreys until solutions can be put in place to address safety and design issues identified by The Associated Press in its recent in-depth investigation of the aircraft's accident record

These were the key developments on the 1,003rd day of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin says about 10,000 of the soldiers believed to be based in Kursk border region and being ‘integrated into Russian formations’. What we know on day 1,004

UK Defense Intelligence warns of escalating instability on Ukraine's front lines. US approves anti-personnel mines shipment to aid Ukraine's defense strategy.

Southeast Asian defense chiefs are meeting with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of the South China Sea is leading to more confrontations

Al Jazeera looks back at the most devastating period in Laos’s history, when the US waged a years-long ‘Secret War’.