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Congress will settle on a $833 billion defense spending topline for fiscal 2025, one House leader says. But in typical fashion, it won’t be on time—so lawmakers are readying a budget extension.“It looks like there's going to be another…

Seven American service members were injured in a recent large joint operation targeting Islamic State militants in western Iraq. More than 100 U.S. troops joined in the mission, which spanned “miles of remote terrain” across Iraq’s Anbar…

More than 40 people were killed in Ukraine Tuesday after a Russian missile attack in the city of Poltava, about 200 miles southeast of Kyiv, President Volodymir Zelenskyy said in a video message on social media. More than 180 others…

Ukrainian military chief Rustem Umerov is visiting the Pentagon today for talks with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Umerov is expected to update Austin on Ukrainian developments inside Kursk, Russia, and they may do a little planning ahead…

The United States isn’t working quickly enough to replace its aging and vulnerable GPS system, according to the Pentagon’s former space policy chief.“We are falling behind. We aren't modernizing constellation signals fast enough,” John…

President Biden’s national security advisor met with China’s leader in Beijing Thursday as the final portion of Jake Sullivan’s 14 hours of talks with top Chinese officials on their home field, as it were, over the past three…

Israel launched a military operation overnight in the West Bank, the larger of its two Palestinian enclaves. According to the New York Times, reporting from Jerusalem: “Hundreds of troops entered cities in the occupied territory, targeting…

Russia launched another 90-plus missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, with 81 of those coming as Iranian-designed “Shahed” drones and nine others spanning cruise and ballistic missile varieties, according to Ukraine’s…

FORT JOHNSON, Louisiana—Through the black-and-white lens of night-vision goggles, Sgt. 1st Class Mark Spirko and 1st Lt. Alex Andrade looked like phantoms as they creeped through the suffocatingly hot pine forest just after 1 a.m.Suddenly…

Nearly 100 Israeli jets carried out a massive air attack inside Lebanon early Sunday, striking dozens of Hezbollah targets in order to stop what it described as “a large-scale terrorist attack” using rockets and drones, according to…