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The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, abandoned in the Red Sea after a pirate attack by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen last week, appears to be leaking oil — possibly the prelude to a much-feared environmental catastrophe.

The United States on Monday formally handed its last military base in Niger over to the ruling military junta, completing a pullout ordered by Niger’s rulers in March.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday appeared to rebuke a senior Pentagon official after she reportedly approved a plea-deal for 9/11 terrorist mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two accomplices that became a massive embarrassment for the Biden-Harris administration.

A report has found that the United States military is “not prepared” to fight in a major war, as Russia and China have become “top threats.”

Erik Prince, the entrepreneur who founded Blackwater and other military companies, said Monday that the Pentagon had blocked him from giving Israel technology to flood the Hamas tunnels in Gaza.

President Joe Biden’s $230 million American taxpayer-funded Gaza pier is shutting down after about three weeks of usage and an unclear amount of aid actually delivered to Palestinians in Gaza.

Longtime friends of the Biden family were “disturbed” and “shocked” by President Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive decline as early as 2023, according to a damaging report published Thursday.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump said during the 2024 presidential debate on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he had remained in office.

Over a dozen international shipping organizations published a statement on Wednesday demanding that “states with influence” do more to protect civilian ships from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, responding to the Iran-backed jihadists sinking their second ship this week.

The Biden administration is insisting its Gaza pier will be reopened this week, despite a report that said it was failing and could be dismantled soon.

A Russian court sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black to a penal colony for allegedly robbing and threatening to murder his girlfriend.

The United States Navy Special Warfare Command — the command overseeing U.S. Navy SEALs and other Navy special operations forces — celebrated Pride Month with a special graphic posted on its Facebook page on June 1.

Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun rebuffed U.S. concerns about China’s “provocative” behavior toward Taiwan, and told the U.S. to stop sending “wrong signals” to “separatist forces,” at a meeting with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Singapore on Friday.

The Pentagon on Tuesday confirmed that its $320 million floating pier to Gaza, which President Joe Biden announced with great fanfare during the State of the Union address, has broken into pieces and will be dismantled for at least a week as it is repaired.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will be going through a medical procedure on Friday evening. As a result, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will temporarily “assume” his duties.

Most of the aid being delivered to Gaza via the new “floating pier” constructed by the U.S. military is being stolen, according to reports.

The U.S. and Niger issued a joint statement on Sunday that set a deadline of September 15 for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces.

The Pentagon announced Friday it has begun aid delivery from a temporary pier to a beach in Gaza for distribution, publishing the first photos of the attached pier on social media and warning Hamas against attacking the aid operation.

The Pentagon has formally ordered all 1,000 American combat troops remaining in Niger to withdraw over the next few months.

A floating pier being constructed by the U.S. military in Gaza as a means to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid is estimated to cost $320 million.

The Biden administration last month secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine for the first time to enable Ukrainian forces to strike farther into Russian-seized areas in Ukraine, according to a report.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh responded to a question on if the U.S. will help Israel if it responds to Iran’s attack on it by stating that this “is a

During an interview on CNN on Monday, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh stated that Iran’s strike on Israel over the weekend “was not some type of signaling or message from Iran. This was meant to really inflict damage, to

While Israeli air defense systems took out most of the 300 missiles and one-way drones fired by Iran during an unprecedented attack on Israel on Saturday, American sailors and airmen in the region helped to shoot down a number of them.

Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder dodged a question Thursday about why no one in the U.S. was held accountable for a mistaken 2021 drone strike, while demanding Israel punish officials for a similar incident.

The Pentagon on Tuesday said U.S. weapons to Israel have “flowed more rapidly than ever” since Hamas conducted its terrorist attack on October 7 and amid calls from Democrats to condition or limit that assistance.

United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Commander Gen. Laura J. Richardson left open the possibility of sending troops to Haiti as part of an “international solution” to address the ongoing violent situation of the Caribbean nation in remarks given during an event held by the Atlantic Council think tank on Tuesday.

The Pentagon told reporters on Monday that “ongoing discussions” remain underway with the coup regime in Niger, expressing hope to maintain America’s military presence in the country after the regime announced this weekend it was ending its military cooperation with the U.S.

The Pentagon’s surprise decision to withdraw $2.5 billion in funding for Intel’s semiconductor manufacturing plans has created a significant shortfall in the company’s expected incentives under the CHIPS Act.

The U.S. Air Force is preparing to add 1,000 artificial intelligence (AI) jets to its fleet as part of a $6 billion contract.

The Pentagon is “fully politicized and weaponized against the people,” Mara Macie, running against establishment Rep. Rutherford (R-FL), said.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory is reportedly testing the potential of commercial AI chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-4 to assist in military strategy and battle planning, claiming to keep AI within the confines of a simplified wargame simulation.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen announced on Monday they had bombed another commercial ship – the Liberian-flagged, Swiss-owned MSC Sky – in an alleged attempt to hurt the Israeli economy.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin claimed there was no break in the chain of command when he was hospitalized in January for days without telling President Biden, but admitted on Thursday it was his aides who decided to transfer his authorities to his deputy when he could not be reached and blamed his staff for not telling the president sooner.

Democrats on Thursday during a congressional hearing with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended his failure to inform President Joe Biden that he was in the hospital for three full days amid two wars and troops being under attack in Iraq and Syria.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testified to Congress on Thursday that it is common for him to go for “days” without speaking to President Joe Biden.