Nancy Youssef is a national security correspondent with BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
The Secretary of State said "there is no imminent threat" from North Korea, following an incendiary statement Tuesday from President Trump.
*Googles* "What is Guam?"
The 8th and 9th US troops killed in combat in Afghanistan this year died as the US continues to debate its strategy during the 16th year of the war.
The US remains stuck on China as the one country that can solve North Korea's rogue missile program.
The missile that North Korea fired Friday flew nearly 600 miles higher than any previously tested missile, according to estimates.
Meet John F. Kelly, president's new chief of staff.
Twenty-four hours after Donald Trump tweeted he was banning transgender people from serving in the military, the Pentagon took pains to stress that nothing had changed.
He made the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday.
Extrajudicial killings of suspected ISIS members at the hands of Iraqi security forces in Mosul are no secret. But US troops embedded with Iraqi forces have reported only a handful of possible human rights violations, none as serious as what human rights groups and news reports say have taken place.
In the six months of the Trump administration, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has appeared before television cameras in the Pentagon briefing room only twice. It's just another sign of the decreasing information available on US war efforts.
Novo secretário de Defesa, general James "Cachorro Louco" Mattis já declarou-se contra o uso de tortura. Mesmo assim, Trump diz que escolha sobre uso das técnicas será do auxiliar: "Eu dei esse poder a ele".
Though observers say as many as 350 civilians may have died in Iraq and Syria, the US military doesn't know whether they're at fault as the bombing campaign ramps up.
“We never talk about subs!” three defense officials told BuzzFeed News after a transcript of a call between President Trump and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was published.
Defense officials described ISIS’s surrender as “unconditional,” saying the group agreed to remove explosives from around a dam and leave its heavy weapons behind as its fighters left the city of Tabqa.
The deaths of the two mark the second and third deaths this year fighting against not the Taliban or Al Qaeda, but ISIS's Afghan offshoot.
The US commander in Afghanistan will no longer issue an initial statement within hours of a US combat death. Instead, deaths will be announced by the Pentagon 24 hours after family members have been notified.
Rather than dropping multiple bombs on a suspected set of ISIS-controlled tunnels, the US for the first time used a weapon nicknamed the "Mother of All Bombs."
Extrajudicial killings of suspected ISIS members at the hands of Iraqi security forces in Mosul are no secret. But US troops embedded with Iraqi forces have reported only a handful of possible human rights violations, none as serious as what human rights groups and news reports say have taken place.
Critics worry that the new authority given to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis shows a president with very little interest in actually commanding his armed forces.
The US military struck at al-Qaeda militants and camps in Yemen, signaling the US will continue the fight in the war-torn country despite the fallout from a botched Navy SEAL mission.