Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine declared victory over Iran on Wednesday and said the Pentagon is prepared to act quickly if Iran fails to uphold the terms of the newly announced ceasefire.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, a chief critic of the U.S. war on Iran, welcomed President Trump's ceasefire with Tehran on Wednesday but said the U.S. leader put out his own fire.
By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung
- Associated Press
North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea Wednesday in its second launch event in two days, South Korea's military said, hours after a senior North Korean official released crude insults against Seoul's hopes for warmer relations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the release of American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was recently kidnapped by members of the foreign terrorist organization Kata'ib Hizballah near Baghdad, Iraq.
The Trump administration will spend nearly $39 billion in the next several years on rapidly building the first parts of the new Golden Dome nationwide missile defense system.
A prototype of an autonomous fighter jet designed and built by General Atomics crashed in the California desert on Monday during takeoff, the company said in a statement.
By E. Eduardo Castillo and Simina Mistreanu
- Associated Press
Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun arrived in China on Tuesday at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, in what she's calling a "journey for peace" as Beijing pushes for the self-ruled island to come under its control.
President Trump on Tuesday intensified his threats against the Islamic regime in Iran as his evening deadline approached for it to either cooperate with U.S. demands or have the airstrikes rain down hellfire on the country's infrastructure.
Last week, the niece and grandniece of IRGC Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani were arrested by federal agents after reportedly living a lavish lifestyle in the U.S. while promoting Islamist terrorism.
South Korea's spy agency says it's now fair to view the teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as his heir, its strongest assessment yet on the rising political status of the girl who it believes could extend her family's rule into a fourth generation.
The aim of Tehran's decades of pursuit of a nuclear bomb was always twofold: The mullahs wanted to threaten Israel and also to warn the U.S. and the rest of the world that attacking Iran would carry a cost no adversary would be willing to bear.
Ground operations in Iran could put U.S. forces directly in the crosshairs of Iranian drone swarms at a moment when American troops may not have the equipment needed to handle the threat, former defense officials and military analysts say.
The Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office is launching an initiative to wage cognitive warfare -- nonkinetic military operations short of major destructive conflict.
Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery joins the show to talk about ways to fix American shipbuilding, the future of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how the Pentagon has upended its relationships with other Washington institutions.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that service members will be allowed to carry their personal firearms on military installations on Thursday, a major change to regulations.