Federal authorities say Mohammad Reza Nouri, an officer in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, is in custody in Iraq, where he has been convicted by an Iraqi court for his role in the killing of American Stephen Troell.

Hundreds of steelworkers stand in the 26-degree chill outside the local U.S. Steel plant at a pep rally of sorts, broadcasting their defiance and their desperation to the leaders that they believe have abandoned them.

As its older sibling branches count centuries of service — the U.S. Army and Navy are older than the country itself — the Space Force’s few birthdays thus far “hold special significance,” a spokesperson for the force said.

Service members assigned to about three dozen urban areas of the U.S. will see a bump in cost-of-living allowance rates at the start of 2025, while more than 50 other locations will lose the extra money, the Pentagon announced Friday.

U.S. forces in the Middle East killed a leader of the Islamic State group in a precision airstrike in Syria, U.S. Central Command said Friday.

Under new guidelines announced Friday, all Ospreys with proprotor gearboxes under a certain number of flight hours will be subject to additional safety restrictions.

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.

The number of veteran suicides continued to hold steady in 2022 despite an infusion of $13.5 billion in funds for mental health services for former service members, according to newly released findings from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there. Police are still investigating what motivated the shooter.

It comes barely a week after the two countries renewed cooperation for five more years to keep ties from deteriorating. The first such agreement was signed in January 1979 when China severely lagged behind the U.S. in science and technology. Now it has become a strong rival.