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PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 28: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following their meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on December 28, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump invited Zelensky to his private club to work on the U.S.-proposed peace plan to end the war in Ukraine as the conflict approaches four years since the sudden full-scale invasion by Russia on February 24, 2022. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump says US took out a ‘big facility’ in Venezuela

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 29, 2025

DAABDAMALE, PUNTLAND, SOMALIA - JANUARY 25: Soldiers with the Puntland Defense Forces walk back from a cave where Islamic State fighters lived until recently being flushed out on the frontline near Daabdamale, Puntland, Somalia on January 25, 2025. Islamic State in Somalia recruits foreign fighters and brings them into Somalia to try to gain ground in what is becoming a key nerve center for the Islamic State. (Photo by Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

US targets ISIS in Somalia with multiple airstrikes over four days

By Nicholas Slayton

Updated on Dec 28, 2025

A missile launches in a plume of fire from a U.S. warship as part of strikes against ISIS in Nigeria on Dec. 25, 2025.

US targets ISIS with multiple strikes in Nigeria

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 26, 2025

U.S. Army Pfc. Daniel Flores, left, and Spc. Evan Card, both with 101st Sustainment Brigade, assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB), mount a M2A1 machine gun to their M1114 Humvee before a gunnery exercise at Dona Ana Training Complex, N.M., Aug. 21, 2025. Gunneries are a routine training exercise that Soldiers conduct in order to stay proficient in warrior tasks and drills. JTF-SB executes full-scale, agile, and all-domain operations in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to protect the territorial integrity of the United States and achieve 100% operational control of the southern border. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Elijah Ingram)

Have you served on the US-Mexico border in the last year? We want to hear from you.

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Dec 22, 2025

A Coast Guard helicopter approaches the M/T Centuries on Dec. 20, 2025.

US forces seize oil tanker in the Caribbean

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 21, 2025

A US Air Force C-130 Hercules taxis at Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on December 18, 2025. US President Donald Trump's administration is conducting a military campaign in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, deploying naval and air forces for what it calls an anti-drugs offensive. (Photo by Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP via Getty Images)

US forces returning to Ecuador for ‘short-term’ counter-drug mission

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 20, 2025

U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Dec. 19, 2025) A U.S. Airman prepares an A-10 Thunderbolt II for flight from a base in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Dec. 19, in support of Operation Hawkeye Strike. (U.S. Air Force photo)

US forces launch strikes on ISIS in Syria in retaliation for the death of 2 soldiers

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 19, 2025

Peykaap III fast-attack craft, one of several Iranian designed or built weapons currently in use by Venezuela.

Inside Venezuela’s growing arsenal of Iranian weapons

Posted on Dec 17, 2025

Iowa National Guardsmen killed in Syria

Army identifies 2 Iowa National Guardsmen killed in Syria attack

By Nicholas Slayton, Jeff Schogol

Posted on Dec 15, 2025

Troops from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Special Operations and the US-led anti-jihadist coalition, take part in heavy-weaponry military exercises in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria, on March 25, 2022. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP) (Photo by DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Two US soldiers killed in ambush in Syria

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 13, 2025

Image: NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. - (Dec. 1, 2025) – Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) departed Naval Station Mayport for a scheduled deployment, Dec. 1. USS Thomas Hudner is a multi-mission guided-missile destroyer capable of air warfare (AW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), naval surface fire support (NSFS), and surface warfare (SUW). (U.S.

Navy destroyer that joined fight against Houthis, Iran, arrives in Caribbean

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 6, 2025

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Warner, left, and U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Christian Eichelberger, both with 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, assigned to Joint Task Force-Southern Border (JTF-SB), monitor the southern border near Nogales, Ariz., Sept. 17, 2025. JTF-SB executes full-scale, agile, and all-domain operations in support of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to protect the territorial integrity of the United States and achieve 100% operational control of the southern border. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Sean Hoch)

In major restructure, Army stands up new Western Hemisphere Command

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Dec 5, 2025

The USS Gravely, a US Navy warship, departs the Port of Port of Spain on October 30, 2025. The US warship arrived in Trinidad and Tobago on October 26, 2025, for joint exercises near the coast of Venezuela, as Washington ratcheted up pressure on drug traffickers and Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP via Getty Images)

62% of Americans support military action against suspected drug traffickers, survey finds

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Dec 4, 2025

China's aircraft carriers

China’s navy flexes muscles with new flattops

By Jeff Schogol

Posted on Dec 2, 2025

Steven Price testifies at the Texas House of Representatives this year, and a photo from his time stationed in Panama in the early 1980s.

A veteran’s service in Panama isn’t covered by the VA. There are hundreds like him.

By Patty Nieberg

Posted on Dec 1, 2025

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach presents the Silver Star Medal to Lt. Col. William Parks during a ceremony at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va., Nov. 26, 2025. Parks also received the Bronze Star Medal during the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stuart Bright)

Air Force F-16 pilot awarded Silver Star for actions in the Middle East

By Nicholas Slayton

Posted on Nov 28, 2025