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It was supposed to be a 'down day.'

Behold the power of THOR!

The U.S. military will still be able to carry out counterterrorism strikes within Somalia.

French forces have killed Bah ag Moussa, a military leader of al Qaeda's North Africa wing, during an operation in northeastern Mali, Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly said on Friday

In 1965, Ron Dolecki was on a map-making mission for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Ethiopia when he and two crew members were ambushed by Eritrean rebels, taken captive, and marched 150 miles through the desert to Sudan

Marine Maj. Gen. Stephen M. Neary is under investigation for allegedly saying the N-word.

Col. Bradley Moses was head of 3rd Special Forces Group during the deadly ambush.

Forces from over 30 countries plan to participate.

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that U.S. strategic goals could include drawing down troops in Africa despite French pleas that American support is "critical" to countering the growing strength of terror groups in the region with links to the Islamic State and al Qaeda

"Everybody always assumes that when we talk reviews, it means reduction. Not necessarily," Esper said.

The Defense Department has remained relatively tight-lipped regarding the brazen Jan. 5 raid on a military base at Manda Bay, Kenya, but a new report from the New York Times provides a riveting tick-tock filled with new details about how the hours-long gunfight played out

In a Galaxy — err, I mean, on a military base far, far away...

"This is yet another example of the lies, propaganda and fake news coming from al-Shabaab and other malign actors such as Iran and its proxies"

Less than 150 U.S. personnel were at the base at the time of the attack.

​As part of a worldwide shift toward potential confrontation with Russia and China, the Pentagon is weighing a drawdown in Africa — including "abandoning" a $110 million base in Niger that only began operating in November

The United States plans on ramping up counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel region of Africa in response to an alarming rise in violent extremism there, Foreign Policy reports

​Since the U.S. and Chinese militaries became neighbors in the small African country of Djibouti, they haven't been getting along very well

There's a video going around purportedly of soldiers in an unnamed African country jumping out the back of an aircraft, and unfortunately they can't jump good.

The Chinese military has a clear message for the U.S. Navy: Your FONOPs will not be fun ops, from the South China Sea to the Horn of Africa — and you have nobody to blame but yourself

Vice News has obtained a list of at least 21 named U.S. military operations that have taken place or are...

ISIS may be degraded beyond recognition in Iraq and Syria, but the Department of Defense is ramping up its fight against...

The Department of Defense reportedly plans on reducing and assigning special operations forces (SOF) in Africa by the hundreds and...

Two members of Marine Special Operations Command received valor awards for their heroism during a gun battle last year with...