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The U.S. Navy is at an "inflection point" amid growing threats from great power rivals and terrorist groups around the world, a key Republican lawmaker said Wednesday morning, and he stressed the U.S. must maintain a strong surface fleet that ...

President Trump announced Wednesday that he will stop federal funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1 as he escalates his efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants and the jurisdictions that are resisting his administration's efforts to ...

Reverberations from the most consequential U.S. intervention since the 1989 invasion of Panama -- the stunning Jan. 3 capture and removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro -- are reshaping energy calculations around the globe, from pipeline ...

Iran on Wednesday warned neighboring countries hosting U.S. forces that it would launch strikes on American military bases if Washington attacks, according to a new report.

The Pentagon has begun moving non-essential military personnel out of the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar following threats from Tehran that Iran may carry out retaliatory strikes on U.S. military bases in the region, according to reports on Wednesday.

NATO needs the U.S. to take control of Greenland to be an effective deterrent to China and Russia, and anything less is "unacceptable," President Trump said Wednesday.

A top Navy official said Tuesday that the proposed "Trump class" of battleships will fill a critical need for the military and enable the service to project more power on the seas.

A San Diego-based former Navy sailor convicted of spying for China was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his role in supplying secrets to China, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, a move that appears to be at odds with the Pentagon's manual on the laws of war.

Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi insisted on Tuesday that the Iranian regime is fully intact this week despite enduring weeks of intense, nationwide protests aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic.