Nigeria, US military and Islamic State
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The recently launched “GenAI" tool for U.S. service members and Department of War workers is a “critical first step" in the future of warfare, according to a military expert.
The US military has moved a large number of special-operations aircraft, troops and equipment into the Caribbean as President Trump openly considers military action to oust Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a new report.
Over the past week, C-17 heavy-lift cargo planes, which usually transport troops and equipment, flew to Puerto Rico at least 16 times, according to flight tracking data reviewed by The New York Times.
President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, who he has accused of persecuting Christians in the country.
The U.S. military has amassed an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since this summer, when the Trump administration first began to shift assets to the region as part of its anti-drug trafficking
The prohibition on “live fire” training that includes animals is part of this year’s annual defense bill, although other uses of animals for wartime training will continue.
"Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific," the U.S. military said on X.
The U.S. military says it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people
China is in the midst of a “historic military buildup” that has made the US homeland “increasingly vulnerable,” according to the latest edition of a Pentagon report on the capabilities of the Asian nation’s military,
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced direct confrontation from House Democrats during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing after lawmakers presented multiple cases of U.S. military veterans and military families who had been detained or removed under immigration enforcement actions.
An attack by an alleged Islamic State member in Syria has killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian.