Leaders of the four major U.S. military services have spoken out against racism and extremism after last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Their comments on Twitter and in longer written statements made no mention of President Donald Trump's responses to the incident. Military officers are trained ...
The government said Tuesday that U.S. military Osprey will take part in an ongoing defense exercise in Hokkaido later this week, giving the green light to a plan that was halted following the fatal crash of one of the aircraft off Australia. Up to six ...
An emergency alert was mistakenly broadcast to Guam residents amid fears of missile strikes against the Pacific island by North Korea. The alert went out on a radio station just after midnight Tuesday in Guam and said a "civil danger warning" had been issued for ...
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis suggested Monday that a ban announced by President Donald Trump on transgender people serving in the U.S. military may not be a done deal. In a series of tweets, Trump last month upended an Obama-era policy of more than a year ...
Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Latin America comes amid unrest in Venezuela and concern by its neighbors about a possible American military role. Pence planned to meet with Colombia's president, Juan Manuel Santos, later Sunday at the start of a weeklong trip likely to ...
Okinawa residents on Saturday demanded that all of the U.S. military's Ospreys in Japan be grounded in the wake of last week's fatal crash involving one of the tilt-rotor transports off Australia. "It is clear that the Osprey is an extremely dangerous and defective aircraft," ...
The Australian Navy has recovered the submerged remains of a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey that crashed off the east coast of Australia over the weekend, the Australian defense minister said Monday. Marise Payne said in a statement that the HMAS Melville located the Okinawa-based MV-22 ...
Washington is asked to halt Osprey flights in Japan after an MV-22 taking part in exercises crashed into the ocean off Australia’s east coast.
Most LGBT-rights activists never believed Donald Trump's campaign promises to be their friend. But with his move Wednesday to ban transgender people from military service, on top of other actions and appointments, they now see him as openly hostile. Leaders of major advocacy groups depicted ...
U.S. President Donald Trump is barring transgender people from serving in the military "in any capacity," citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption." Trump's announcement Wednesday morning on Twitter did not say what would happen to transgender people already in the military. The president tweeted that after ...
Residents near Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture plan to sue the Japanese government again over noise pollution caused by the base.
U.S. military advisers are operating inside the city of Raqqa, the Islamic State group's last major bastion in Syria, a U.S. official said Wednesday. The troops, many of them special operations forces, are working in an "advise, assist and accompany" role to support local fighters ...
