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The State Department late last week approved arms sales worth more than $8 billion to key U.S. partners across the Middle East.

Iran's latest proposal to the United States calls for issues between the two countries to be resolved within 30 days and aims to end the war rather than extend the ceasefire, according to Iran's state-linked media.

President Trump says he will pull more U.S. troops from Germany after an initial reduction of 5,000, while Republican leaders in Congress say they're "very concerned" about the move and the signal it sends to America's adversaries.

Two U.S. service members were reported missing Sunday in Morocco, during major annual American military exercises in western Africa, Pentagon officials said.

A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was convicted Friday in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela during the first Trump administration.

The U.S. Air Force has finished modifying and testing a Boeing 747 jet donated by Qatar for temporary use as Air Force One and expects to have it ready for President Donald Trump to use this summer, the service announced late Friday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday ordered the withdrawal of about 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany, days after the German chancellor criticized U.S. strategy in the war in Iran.

The Navy's new autonomous flying fuel tanker completed its maiden flight this week, executing a series of maneuvers and tests for two hours in what officials said was a key step for unmanned carrier operations.

The U.S. is currently incapable of building ships faster than China, so the head of the U.S. Navy is pushing a next-generation doctrine of smarter force packaging and autonomous system integration to sustain American naval dominance globally.

President Trump's war on Iran is fundamentally reshaping the Gulf region, from near-term shocks to Tehran's oil-based economy under a crippling U.S. naval blockade to the long-term impact of the United Arab Emirates ditching the OPEC cartel.