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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea early Thursday, as the U.S. military conducted a 12th night of strikes against Iran and diplomatic efforts showed dwindling progress.

R. James Woolsey, a national security expert who led the CIA for two turbulent years after his appointment by President Bill Clinton, has died. He was 84.

President Trump's envoy to Israel during his first administration dismissed accusations from Democrats on Wednesday that the war with Iran has strained the Abraham Accords -- the U.S.-brokered normalization agreements between Israel and several of ...

The House on Wednesday passed a defense policy bill that incorporates President Donald Trump's request for a historic $1.15 trillion in spending for national security and that would designate the Department of Defense as the Department of War.

The Chinese Communist Party operates a web of organizations engaged in irregular warfare -- conflict below the level of kinetic warfare -- targeting the United States, which is not ready to counter the activities, an expert on the topic told the ...

Chances of a peace deal between Iran and the U.S. seemed especially distant on Wednesday after President Trump repeated his threats to strike at civilian targets there and Tehran said it would retaliate.

A federal judge suggested Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new policy requiring troops to meet testosterone levels -- and delivering testosterone replacement therapy -- could undercut the rationale behind the department's restrictions ...

The Trump administration is set to announce and sign a new civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia Wednesday that could allow the kingdom to begin enriching its own fuel for reactors, according to reports.

The U.S. and Ukraine have signed a preliminary agreement that will allow Kyiv to export its drones to the United States for military testing. The deal is the result of months of negotiations over deeper defense-industrial cooperation between both ...

The United States and Pakistan on Wednesday condemned Yemen's Houthi rebels for threatening commercial shipping in the Red Sea after the group announced a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia earlier this week.