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When you're out of ammo and out of options, war gets up close and personal

"There's not a lot of room for nuance when you're in a firefight… He in that sense has a certain appeal."

The U.S. Air Force is ringing in the New Year with jokes about nuclear armageddon.

Here are five noteworthy docs and series you may have missed this year, and might want to carve some time out for in 2019.

A handful of lucky Army units apparently picked up an early Christmas present this fall: A shiny new sniper system for the designated marksmen assigned to infantry, scout, and engineer squads

​Graham, who met with Trump on Sunday after previously blasting his about-face in Syria, announced that Trump "will make sure any withdrawal from Syria will be done in a fashion to ensure: 1) ISIS is permanently destroyed, 2) Iran doesn't fill in the back end, and 3) our Kurdish allies are protected"

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis asked them to "keep the faith in our country and hold fast" at such a difficult time.

Retired Army Gen. Stan McChrystal sharply criticized President Donald Trump in an interview with ABC News on Sunday.

The handoff between Mattis and Shanahan will have little pomp and circumstance when it takes place.

Candice Easton was worried that no one would come to her father's memorial service. Hundreds did.

New photos appear to show the railgun perched on the bow of a Type 072III-class landing ship at sea

The federal government figured out a way ​not​ to screw some 42,000 Coast Guardsmen out of pay during the government shutdown. Sort of...

The names and addresses of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected and resettled in South Korea were stolen during a recent security breach.

A new World War I documentary by Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) offers a fresh look at how warfare may change, but the mundanities of military life and the brutal realities of ground combat remain the same.

Syed Ali, a U.S. Army veteran once deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, shrugged off his fearless show of self-defense during a subterranean battle last Sunday inside a Manhattan subway station

By the time he arrives overseas, he will have likely seen more combat than many of his Marine peers of the same age.