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.
“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.
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.
Syria has begun moving planes scattered across regime-controlled territory back to the Shayrat airfield, the target of 59 US Tomahawk missiles.
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 video was initially heralded as proof that the raid in Yemen, in which a US military operator was killed along with several civilians, was a success.
Showing the face of the soldier wasn’t illegal or against protocol but rather in bad form, a senior defense official told BuzzFeed News.
The US remains stuck on China as the one country that can solve North Korea's rogue missile program.
US military officials tell BuzzFeed News it may have been a Russian plane that struck the hospital treating victims of Tuesday’s chemical attack, after watching the building closely via drone.
“You have to understand where the levers are. You don’t have to like it, but that is where they are,” a defense official told to BuzzFeed News. “It’s in our interest.”
The US troops would support their local counterparts with skills where they still fall short like counterterrorism, intelligence gathering, and aviation, a US defense official told BuzzFeed News.