Ben Wolfgang

U.S. and Saudi Arabian forces struck multiple sites in eastern Iraq on Tuesday after Iran-backed militias used those locations to launch drone attacks across the region, Pentagon officials said.

President Trump seemingly has no good options to end the unpopular and expensive Iran war. But one idea is gaining traction on Capitol Hill and in national security circles: Simply declare victory and stop fighting.

The Pentagon late Thursday officially opened a new program to give government loans, potentially worth billions of dollars, to private investment funds.

Key Iranian officials warned over the weekend of “seismic” retaliation against the country’s Middle East neighbors and the U.S. ahead of the Trump administration’s massive new economic sanctions push, expected early this week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rejected calls for wartime elections, saying such political contests at a critical moment in his country’s war with Russia would “split Ukraine” apart.

The U.S. Army has selected five companies to build and operate nuclear microreactors on five military installations across the country, the service announced Wednesday.

The U.S. faces a “severe” shortage of qualified engineers and technicians needed to rebuild or replace satellites targeted by China or Russia in a theoretical 21st-century war in space, according to a major new report from the Rand Corp.

Throughout its 25 years, the post-9/11 War on Terror and all of the conflicts that branched from it — from Afghanistan and Iraq to the Horn of Africa — defined presidencies, exacted a staggering human cost, remade the pillars of the federal government, and exposed the hard limits of what raw American military might can achieve.

The U.S. has very few options right now to protect the homeland against 21st-century missile attacks, a key senator said Monday.

The U.S. is racing ahead with cutting-edge space weapons and is rapidly building the ambitious Golden Dome missile shield, key Pentagon officials said Monday, even as military leaders unveiled new steps to protect American airpower assets from cheap, modern attacks by Iran or other adversaries.