Author: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

A New Jersey National Guardsman is the first U.S. service member to die of COVID-19.

The Pentagon plans to announce new steps to vet foreign military students after a Saudi officer attacked people at Naval Air Station Pensacola.

The military is tracking a Russian spy ship operating in an “unsafe manner” along the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida coast.

U.S. and allied warplanes are dropping bombs on insurgent targets in Afghanistan at a record pace. But the Taliban doesn’t seem to be backing down.

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, refused to release the dog’s name for security reasons.

The Pentagon will pull virtually all its troops from Syria as Turkey presses its invasion. About 1,000 troops will be flown or driven.

Top Pentagon official says Turkey’s attack on Kurds was ‘impulsive,’ and Turkish artillery shells land within a quarter mile of U.S. troops.

The deployment adds to the 11,000 troops sent to the region since May to bolster the presence in the Middle East.

Trump’s abandonment of Kurdish allies fighting ISIS shocked members of the U.S. military and left it scrambling to protect American forces in Syria.