China’s army is improving attack helicopter skills against U.S. missile defenses and ground vehicles, and recently practiced live-fire missile strikes against mockups of Patriot anti-missile launchers and Army Humvees, according to an Army think tank report. China’s state television CCTV revealed in June during a live-fire drill that a People’s Liberation Army aviation unit conducted…
The Israeli military acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that it opened fire on the vehicle carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza and said it had opened a criminal investigation into the killing. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation…
ProPublica is examining U.S. military budgeting, spending and contracting, and we’re asking for your help. We’ve spent years talking to people who’ve worked in the defense industry, the Pentagon and the armed services, so we know that these topics are critically important. Every day, Pentagon contracting officers, defense industry workers, congressional staffers and others make…
August 19, 2026 — 3:30pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon policy chief, has just completed a tour of South-east Asia where he tried to assure America’s allies that the US is still with them and dissuade…
Pakistan, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia will form political and military mechanisms under a defence pact signed between the regional powers last week, Turkiye’s defence ministry said on Thursday, adding the alliance would also deepen defence industry cooperation. The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement was signed last week as the Middle East grapples with fallout from the…
BANGKOK — BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar ’s military has increasingly used low-cost aircraft such as motorized paragliders and gyrocopters in escalating aerial attacks that kill civilians in its conflict with armed, anti-government groups, a U.N. investigation said in a report Tuesday. Separately, a major ethnic armed group fighting the government in Rakhine state said 20…
The U.S. Military Health System — one of the largest and most standardized health systems in the world, serving approximately 9.6 million beneficiaries — has deployed AI technology that listens to clinical conversations between patients and providers and automatically generates the medical documentation of each visit. The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced during the week…
The senior legal counsel to the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the principal military adviser to President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — is stepping down nearly a year before his term is over, the latest in an exodus of the military’s top leaders and lawyers over the last 18…
