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President Trump on Tuesday said he canceled talks with Iranian officials over their violent crackdown on protesters and vowed that the U.S. will "help" the protesters, encouraging them to continue with the unrest.

The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked Tuesday to at least 2,003 people killed, activists said, and Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown.

The European Union is drafting new sanctions against Tehran as the death toll continues to rise from a crackdown on anti-government protests throughout Iran.

Syrian government forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces exchanged fire on Tuesday in a tense area in eastern Aleppo province, marking a possible new escalation after clashes in the country's second city.

President Trump cryptically warned Minnesota residents on Tuesday that "the day of reckoning & retribution is coming."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized bureaucratic barriers hampering artificial intelligence development and delivery and promised to break them down in a speech Monday at SpaceX's Starbase launch site.

The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a groundbreaking direct-to-supplier move that will see the federal government invest $1 billion in a new company, to be spun off from defense industry giant L3Harris, that will produce solid rocket motors.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google's generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military's data as ...

President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government as it continues a violent crackdown on protests that have left nearly 600 dead and led to the arrests of ...

The United States accused Russia on Monday of a "dangerous and inexplicable escalation" of its nearly four-year war in Ukraine at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations toward peace.