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.
Still, the United States has yet to increase the threat level.
“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 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.
“Nobody here is making up a bill for the South Koreans,” one defense official explained to BuzzFeed News after President Trump said the Seoul government should cough up $1 billion for the deployment.
Trump’s pick to lead the US military said Russia was a threat to the NATO alliance, a stance at odds with President-elect Donald Trump’s praise for Putin.
The Iraqi government's declaration that ISIS had been expelled from Iraq goes against both the current situation on the ground in Mosul and the experience other Iraqi cities freed have gone through.
The missile that North Korea fired Friday flew nearly 600 miles higher than any previously tested missile, according to estimates.
Gen. John Nicholson believes he needs that boost — which will come from US forces, NATO forces, or both — to help train more Afghan security forces.