The US Department of Defense has reserved a billion dollars (880 million euros) for the construction of more than 90 kilometers of fences, roads and lighting on the border of the United...
The Pentagon sends 3750 US military personnel to the border with Mexico in the southwest of the US. They are going to help customs officers and the border police again. That's what the Ministry of...
The White House last year asked the Department of Defense in Washington what the possibilities were for attacking Iran. The question not only worried Defense, but also the...
There is astonishment and bewilderment in the Pentagon and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Trumps decides to get the remaining American troops from Syria. It's not for the president...
Donald Trump's government wants to immediately recall the US military from Syria. That's what sources at the Pentagon have reported to the Washington Post newspaper. It is more than two thousand...
The United States temporarily flog their F-35 fighter planes, also known as JSF, due to a recent crash. The Pentagon has decided that certain fuel valves in all aircraft must be re-inspected. That will take about 48 hours.
The packages with suspicious content intended for the Pentagon, the White House and Senator Ted Cruz's office were probably sent by an ex-navy man. That's what people who were involved in the investigation said Wednesday to Fox News. The deadly poison ricine was found in at least two intercepted mail items. The FBI has taken the stuff for further research.
In the mail room of the Pentagon, outside the main building of the department, two packets have been intercepted that presumably contain the deadly poison ricin. According to the American media, the addressees were Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Admiral John Richardson. The FBI initiates an investigation and analyzes the content.
In the presence of the American President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, the attacks of September 11, 2001, were commemorated in Shanksville.
The military parade that President Donald Trump requested and was on the agenda for Washington this November was postponed to 2019. 'We had planned 10 November 2018 for this event, but we decided to explore the possibilities for 2019 ', A Pentagon spokesman said in a statement. The Ministry has not given an official reason for the postponement.
The United States has set itself the goal of having a 'Space Force' operational by 2020. The formation of a sixth, 'extraterrestrial' part of the American armed forces is an old wish of Donald Trump. Vice President Mike Pence launched an ambitious plan for these space troops in the Pentagon on Thursday, provided there is sufficient political support.
The United States gives Ukraine 200 million dollars (171 million euros) to strengthen its defense. The money is meant for training, communication and medical supplies, reports the Pentagon.
US President Donald Trump is putting NATO countries under pressure to spend more money on defense. At the NATO summit, next week in Brussels, he will tell the participating countries that the United States is not the 'biggest piggy bank in the world', his spokesperson said.
A bomb from an American plane killed a Syrian army officer close to the Iraqi-Syrian border in Tanf. An officer has said this to the Reuters news agency.
The American armed forces will receive a new part for the first time since 1947: the Space Force. President Trump ordered the Pentagon at the beginning of this week to set up this 'Space Power' with immediate effect.
The US has formally complained to China about Chinese people who seem to have American air force pilots with lasers at their base in Djibouti. The US has a base in the African country where about four thousand people are stationed.
The United States transferred a prisoner from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia. Ahmed Muhammed Haza al-Darbi may serve the rest of his sentence there. It is the first time since President Donald Trump took office that a detainee leaves the controversial prison.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said it intervened on Monday night after a rocket attack aimed at Shayrat Air Base near the city of Homs.
Russia has started a campaign of 'dirty tricks \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; against Great Britain and the United States after the attack on Syrian targets. The British government has seen the amount of disinformation that Russia is spreading through social media twenty-five years since the rocket attacks in the early hours of Saturday.
The Western attack has destroyed an important part of the Syrian infrastructure for chemical weapons. The missiles have dealt a heavy blow to Assad's ability to produce chemical weapons, the US Department of Defense reports.
The United States is conducting feverish consultations with France and Great Britain about military action against Syria. After the harsh words of Donald Trump yesterday, who warned that the 'missiles are coming', America has left the door ajar for a diplomatic solution. 'We study all options,' said the spokeswoman for the White House. But it is expected that the diplomatic door will be slammed quickly and hard.
Chipmaker The hostile takeover by semiconductor Broadcom from chipmaker Qualcomm is coming up with new blockades in Washington. That purchase by the Singapore company against $ 121 billion may threaten national security, according to the Ministry of Finance.
US President Donald Trump made a 4.4 billion dollar budget proposal for the fiscal year 2019 on Monday. He is looking forward to a further increase in spending of hundreds of billions. Especially defense, border security and infrastructure benefit. The Pentagon alone can accommodate 686 billion.
The US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Thursday that soldiers who illegally entered the US as a child and grew up there, will not be deported when their residence permit expires. With a few exceptions, the 'army-dreamers' may remain, even if the so-called DACA program that now protects them is being abolished by the Trump government.
US President Donald Trump wants to hold a military parade in the capital city of Washington. He has instructed the Ministry of Defense, among other things, to look into the possibilities. According to the Washington Post, he came up with the idea after seeing the military parade on July 14 in Paris.
The US Department of Defense wants more than $ 10 billion from Congress to buy 77 F-35 fighter aircrafts in the next fiscal year (from 1 October). The device is also known as Joint Strike Fighter.
A Russian fighter jet has flown over an American military plane over the Black Sea. The distance between the two aircraft was not more than one and a half meters, CNN reported Monday, referring to the Pentagon.
The US Department of Defense has stated on Wednesday that it will not create a new army or a border troops in Syria. Earlier in the day, Turkey had fiercely responded to US plans to train fighters including Syrian Kurds for security in the country.
Risks such as years of imprisonment, the death penalty, or a life in exile are worth it to address abuses and leak secret documents. That is what the American whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says in an interview with The Guardian, in which he and Edward Snowden speak.
A secret spy satellite of the Americans that was launched on Sunday never landed in orbit around the earth. That's what the Pentagon says on Monday. The Ministry of Defense does not know where the device is, but it is assumed that the attempt failed.
