U.S. military

Military leaders quarantined after official tests positive

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and other top military leaders are under quarantine after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for the coronavirus.

U.S. Space Force deploys to the Arabian Peninsula

By Associated Press

Space Force now has a squadron of 20 airmen stationed at Qatar's Al-Udeid Air Base in its first foreign deployment.

Russian military says U.S. flights near Crimea fuel tensions

By Vladimir Isachenkov, Associated Press

The Russian military on Friday accused the U.S. and its allies of provoking tensions in the Black Sea region with a sharp increase in the number of bomber patrols and intelligence flights.

U.S. will withdraw thousands of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan

By Robert Burns, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

The top U.S. general for the Middle East says the Trump administration will pull thousands of troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan by November. Gen. Frank McKenzie says the number of troops in Iraq will drop this month from about…

Atlantic report highlights Trump’s complex relationship with the military

By William Brangham

President Trump is facing continued criticism over disparaging remarks he allegedly made about U.S. troops. A report in The Atlantic magazine, which was later confirmed by multiple other news outlets, says Trump repeatedly called fallen American servicemembers “losers” and “suckers.”…

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David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart on Kenosha politics, Trump and the military

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including visits to Kenosha, Wisconsin, by President Trump and Joe Biden and how their responses to social unrest have…

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WATCH: Trump holds news conference following accusations of U.S. military comments

By Associated Press

The allegations, sourced anonymously in The Atlantic, describe multiple offensive comments by the president toward fallen U.S. service-members, including calling World War I dead at an American military cemetery in France "losers" and "suckers" in 2018.

Trump says he won’t let Pentagon close Stars and Stripes newspaper

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

The Pentagon's plan to shut down the military's independent newspaper, Stars and Stripes, hit a major roadblock Friday, as President Donald Trump announced that he won't allow that on his watch.

Trump disparaged U.S. military casualties as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers,’ report says

By Associated Press

The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump's comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press.

U.S. says Iran briefly seizes oil tanker near Strait of Hormuz

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

The Iranian navy boarded and briefly seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker near the strategic Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S., a U.S. military official said Thursday.