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Iran’s navy hijacked a tanker ship carrying Iraqi oil in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel is known as the St Nikolas, and was bound for Turkey when it was captured by Iranian forces just south of the United…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is battling prostate cancer, Walter Reed doctors said Tuesday. It was spotted in late December, leading to a prostatectomy on Dec. 22. “His prognosis is excellent,” said Dr. John Maddox, the hospital’s trauma…

The Pentagon says it will conduct a month-long review of the notification process for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's recent hospitalization, which officials announced Friday after Austin had been in the ICU at Walter Reed for much of the…

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, 70, was hospitalized in the ICU last week after complications following an unspecified elective medical procedure, and apparently no one on his staff informed the White House until day four of his stay at…

Marines deploying to Asia for recent exercises learned to hide their command posts using local cell phone networks and other commercial tech, part of a growing push within the military to adapt to modern battlefields. The Marines’…

‘New phase’ of war outlined by Israel defense chief. Full-scale combat operations in the northern part of Gaza will give way to raids, demolishing tunnels, air and ground strikes, and special forces operations, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant…

Developing: The U.S. military killed an Iraqi militia leader with an airstrike in Iraq’s capital city on Thursday. The group is known as Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, and the man killed appears to be Abu Taqwa al-Saeedi, deputy commander of…

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A suspected Israeli drone strike killed a top Hamas official Tuesday evening in southern Beirut. The strike killed seven people, including a 57-year-old Hamas deputy named Saleh al-Arouri, whom the Wall Street Journal described as a…

Russia this week launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began more than 670 days ago. At least two people were killed and nearly four dozen people in the capital city of Kyiv were injured in the…