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The U.S. military on Thursday seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil, ratcheting up a standoff with Iran a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the crucial Strait of Hormuz.

Iranian lawmakers said Thursday the Islamic republic has begun collecting fees from commercial ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, even as traffic through the crucial waterway grinds to a halt.

The commander of the Indo-Pacific Command told Congress that the Chinese People's Liberation Army is already using artificial intelligence to enhance the combat power of its forces.

The Navy is developing weapons and other military systems to be deployed inside shipping containers and used on both drone ships and traditional warships, according to Navy officials.

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan has stepped down from his position at the Defense Department in the latest high-profile departure by a Trump administration official.

China's People's Liberation Army expanded the number of intermediate-range missiles in its arsenal last year as part of its expansion to 3,450 missiles of all range types, according to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan has departed the Trump administration effective immediately, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, with Undersecretary Hung Cao stepping in as acting secretary.

The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America's war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country, the U.S. government and an advocacy group said. Congo is ...

If you want to be an infantry soldier in the Army, you'll be required to heft a 40-pound sandbag onto a 65-inch-high platform 16 times, and carry two five-gallon water cans weighing 40 pounds each for 50 meters.

Iran's naval forces fired on and seized two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, as Tehran and U.S. forces vied for control of critical waterways and the upper hand in tenuous peace talks.