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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday laying out what he said is the Defense Department's plan to protect the 2026 midterm elections from "external manipulation and disruption from foreign actors."

President Trump on Monday said he did not discuss an offer to sell U.S. weapons to China during the recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

A judge on Monday sentenced in absentia 11 commanders of Colombia's largest remaining rebel group to prison for recruiting 60 children as young as 8 into their ranks between 2004 and 2018.

The bullet train of growth in the advanced defense tech sector may be slowing down, as a perfect storm in Washington, Silicon Valley and Wall Street could spark a wave of consolidation in an industry that until recently seemed poised for endless ...

President Trump said Monday he disagrees with Britain's decision to grant bail to the five men arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot at a British air force base used by American forces.

An F-16 jet fighter from the Air Force's "Thunderbirds" flight demonstration team lost power and crashed into the desert about 120 miles west of Las Vegas last year because of misaligned fan blades in the engine, according to a recently released Air ...

The Trump administration is revoking the visas of 27 Latin American officials, former officials and their families, including Bolivia's attorney general, over accusations of corruption.

The security agreement signed by the U.S., Denmark and Greenland last week "strengthens the defense of Greenland, the NATO area, and the American continent," Denmark's U.N. ambassador told the U.N.'s annual gathering of world leaders Monday.

A court in Rome on Monday sentenced three Egyptian security officials convicted of aggravated kidnapping in the abduction of an Italian researcher in Cairo to 10 years in prison, while a fourth defendant was acquitted of murder.

The head of Ethiopia's army suggested that neighboring Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt were supporting rebel troops who have captured several strategic towns in renewed fighting in the north, drawing denials as the threat of a widening regional conflict ...