Vera Bergengruen is a Pentagon reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
From body armor to health care, the US military has been slow to adapt to women in its ranks. Female service members are paying the price, often with lifelong consequences.
The Pentagon identified three of the four Americans killed Wednesday in Manbij, Syria.
The American dead included two soldiers, a US security contractor, and a civilian Defense Department employee, according to US Central Command.
The hyped news accounts over Julian Assange’s fate at Ecuador’s embassy in London keeps missing one crucial factor: Ecuadorians.
Mattis announced his resignation on Thursday, citing differences with the president over his decision to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan.
It's the second major resignation over the president's decision in as many days.
In a letter to the president dated Thursday, Mattis wrote about his beliefs in "treating allies with respect."
The indictment provides the most detailed account to date of Turkish efforts to persuade the US to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a longtime rival of Turkey’s president.
Central Americans continue to arrive in northern Mexico, but the US military has cut the number of troops deployed on the border.
Butina pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, and will delay sentencing while she cooperates with the government.
Most died in Afghanistan, the US's longest-running war, but the first casualty of Trump's term came in Yemen.
“We ask the media and the public and all responsible entities not to aid these terrorists in recruiting efforts by viewing or bringing to attention these images, these videos. You are complicit in amplifying ISIS propaganda if you do that."
It’s hard to tell how much of the story 29-year-old Maria Butina told Americans about herself for years is real. But it's clear that her persona — a scrappy girl from Siberia fighting for Russian gun rights — was carefully calibrated to appeal to US conservatives.
Maria Butina learned about Americans on a very local level — and found that gun rights would be a winning issue to get close to conservatives.
The US soldiers were underequipped, outgunned, and outnumbered. The long-awaited investigation does not assign blame to senior officials for putting them in that situation.
The breathless coverage of a sexual overture that wasn’t missed the new details about her five-year effort to make inroads with prominent Republicans.
Donald Trump and his supporters say kneeling during the anthem is disrespectful to veterans. Many veterans disagree.
Despite assurances from the Pentagon, Hawaii remains more vulnerable to an attack by North Korea than anywhere else in the United States.
“All of those hangars are damaged. We anticipate the aircraft parked inside may be damaged as well."
“We had rocks thrown at us all the time in Afghanistan. Responding with lethal force is a fucking war crime.”