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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants colonels and Navy captains seeking promotion to one-star rank to undergo a battlefield-style assessment before they can become a general or admiral.

Iran's president said Wednesday that his people have been "victims of terrorism" by the United States, delivering a rare wartime speech at U.N. General Assembly a day after President Donald Trump said he could "annihilate" the Islamic republic.

The Air Force is investigating Tuesday's crash of an F-16 jet fighter at a U.S. air base in Germany that injured the ejected pilot.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on Wednesday, he's expected to get a rare greeting from President Donald Trump, who will be on the tarmac to welcome his counterpart instead of waiting for him to drive up to the White House.

President Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, an unexpected engagement that came even as he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may "annihilate" the Islamic regime if a deal isn't reached soon to end the ...

Regional forces in Tigray in northern Ethiopia took control of the airport on Wednesday morning, prompting the state-owned carrier to cancel flights to the troubled region.

An international media watchdog has warned that journalists in Serbia are increasingly under threat of violence and hostility ahead of a high-stakes early parliamentary election next month that will test populist President Aleksandar Vucic 's rule.

An Australian business executive who headed the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar has been released from jail after being detained for more than 100 days over financial misappropriation allegations, a legal official said Wednesday.

Judges at the International Criminal Court convicted rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani on Wednesday of crimes against humanity for abusing and torturing prisoners at a detention facility in the Central African Republic.

America mines plenty of rare earth elements, but turning them into usable material means relying on China's complex processing infrastructure. Here's why closing the separation gap will take years.