In September 2014, Pete Buttigieg left Kabul after a seven-month deployment. The South Bend mayor said that, at the time, he figured he would be one of the last U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Five years later, however, Buttigieg is running for president while nearly 14,000 American troops remain in the country. “We need to wrap […]

Investigators are probing the deaths of about 10 patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia, and an additional death — a retired Vietnam vet — has been ruled a homicide. Retired Army Sgt. Felix Kirk McDermott, 82, died in April 2018 at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia. […]

The explosion of a suspected Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile last week has caused a lot of confusion and anxiety, fueled in part by Russian authorities’ continuing secrecy around the accident. Russia has provided few details known about the blast, which a U.S. official told ABC News “likely” took place during a test on the missile, […]

The older Knight enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1948, just after his 17th birthday, following in the footsteps of his five older brothers, according to his obituary. He was accepted for pilot training at Laredo in 1957 and served as a fighter pilot in Germany and France before returning to Texas as […]

WASHINGTON — The United States has obtained intelligence that the son and potential successor of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden, is dead, according to three U.S. officials. The officials would not provide details of how Hamza bin Laden died or if the U.S. played a role in his death. The death […]

The Navy has arrested 16 Marines at a major West Coast military base over their alleged involvement in human smuggling, drug offenses and other crimes. On Thursday morning, after some 800 Marines gathered in formation at Camp Pendleton north of San Diego, Marine officials working with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service pulled out the 16 […]

Tehran, Iran — Iran claimed Monday it has arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on the country’s nuclear and military sites, and that some have already been sentenced to death. In a Monday morning tweet, President Trump called the report of the arrests “totally false.” The alleged arrests […]

TEHRAN — ABritish oil tanker was seized and guided toward Iran in the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces while another was temporarily stopped and sent on its way, according to a U.S. official and the tankers’ operators. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed in a statement that it seized a British oil tanker named Stena Impero […]

An American citizen who allegedly traveled to Syria and became a sniper and weapons instructor for ISIS has been charged by federal authorities with supporting the terrorist organization, prosecutors said Friday. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Kazakhstan, was charged with providing and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist […]

Two Marines were arrested after authorities said they helped smuggle undocumented immigrants in exchange for cash, NBC News reported Tuesday. Marine Lance Cpls. Byron Law II and David Salazar-Quintero, both based in California, were reportedly arrested on July 3. They were charged with transportation of certain aliens for financial gain, per NBC. Read more at […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is asking for 1,000 additional Texas National Guard troops “to provide supplemental holding and port of entry enforcement support” to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the state, the Department of Defense told The Hill on Monday. The Pentagon has not yet approved the request, which was made last […]

Israel’s energy minister on Sunday described Iran’s increase in uranium enrichment as moderate while also accusing Tehran of moving toward a nuclear weapon, Reuters reported. “Iran has begun – while it is a moderate rise right now – but it has begun to raise, to break out of the uranium enrichment curbs that were imposed […]