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A soldier who doesn't report for duty within three hours will be formally considered "absent-unknown" on the unit's duty roster. Family members will be notified if the soldier remains missing for eight hours, according to a recently released ...

U.S. military forces in South Korea could be used outside the peninsula if a conflict erupts with China but the main focus of those troops now is confronting threats from North Korea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.

The United States has circulated draft text for a U.N. Security Council resolution that would provide a mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza for at least two years, marking the next step in President Donald Trump's plan to halt ...

New Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi talked up defense spending and got along famously with U.S. President Trump on his recent Asian tour, but delivering on her promise to rearm Japan is far from assured, even with growing concerns in Tokyo about Russia ...

The U.S. is expected to ask the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on seven vessels allegedly used to export coal and iron from North Korea in violation of the sanctions regime, according to new reports on Tuesday.

A senior Russian lawmaker said Moscow should consider providing Venezuela with its advanced Oreshnik midrange ballistic missile as the Trump administration ramps up its military presence in the Caribbean with the deployment of at least eight U.S.

Israel's recent violations of the Gaza ceasefire threatened to shatter the already fragile peace, Turkey's foreign minister said Monday, following a summit with foreign leaders to discuss the state of the peace plan.

Courts in Tennessee and West Virginia heard arguments Monday challenging the deployment of their states' National Guard troops to patrol the streets of Memphis and Washington, D.C., respectively, as part of President Donald Trump's push to send the ...

Legal scholars say the Trump administration may have a solid argument that international drug cartels are using narcotics as de facto weapons of war and are targeting the U.S. with the intent of doing physical harm -- in the form of drug addiction --

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the southern California desert just after sunrise in what could be the first step toward much faster commercial travel, according to ...