Thomas Gibbons-Neff

The USS Fitzgerald sits in a dry dock in Yokosuka, Japan, after it collided with a container ship.

Deadly Navy accidents in the Pacific raise questions over a force stretched too thin

August 26, 2017 at 11:27 p.m.

Constant deployments, a shrinking number of ships and high demands on crews have frayed the U.S. Navy, according to naval experts and current and former Navy officers, leading to four...

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The 10 sailors lost from the USS John S. McCain

August 25, 2017 at 12:08 a.m.

After more than 80 hours of searching thousands of miles of open sea, the U.S. Navy now hopes only to recover the bodies lost from the USS John S. McCain...

Pentagon identifies Special Forces soldier killed battling Islamic State in Afghanistan

August 18, 2017 at 7:16 a.m.

The Pentagon has identified the U.S. Army Green Beret who was killed Wednesday battling Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan.

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Pentagon yet to make transgender change

July 27, 2017 at 11:08 p.m.

The Trump administration struggled Thursday to explain the details of a ban on transgender service members announced a day earlier by the president, amid criticism from Republicans that the policy...

Head of ISIS in Afghanistan killed in drone strike, Pentagon says

July 14, 2017 at 9:47 p.m.

A U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan earlier this week killed Abu Sayed, the leader of the Islamic State's offshoot there, U.S. officials said Friday.

U.S. destroyer sails near disputed island in South China Sea

July 2, 2017 at 10:34 p.m.

An American guided-missile destroyer sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea on Sunday, a U.S. defense official said, marking the second such operation since President Trump took...

Canadian Special Operations sniper hit target from more than 2 miles away, military says

June 22, 2017 at 5:16 p.m.

A Canadian Special Operations sniper shot an Islamic State fighter from nearly 2.2 miles away in Iraq, the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper reported Thursday.

Piracy back on the rise in Somali waters, U.S. military says

April 23, 2017 at 1:23 p.m.

After years of relative calm, piracy is on the rise again off the coast of Somalia, U.S. officials here said Sunday.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 16.

Syria still has chemical weapons, U.S. defense secretary says

April 21, 2017 at 10:39 a.m.

TEL AVIV, Israel - The Syrian government has retained an unspecified amount of chemical weapons and dispersed its aircraft following a U.S. cruise missile attack earlier this month, Secretary of...

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