As part of a restructuring initiative, U.S. Forces Japan is looking into appropriating an Army compound in central Tokyo as the command weighs a move from the city’s western suburbs potentially to a downtown district just a few miles from Japan’s Ministry of Defense.
Daisy Elliot was among 101 young athletes from across Japan who gathered at this airlift hub in western Tokyo over the weekend for the 45th Kanto Plains Special Olympics.
North Korea says it has ratified a major defense treaty with Russia stipulating mutual military aid. Russia last week completed the ratification process of the treaty that is considered both countries’ biggest defense deal since the end of the Cold War.
President-elect Donald Trump has asked U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, a retired Army National Guard officer and former Green Beret, to be his national security adviser, a person familiar with the matter says.
The Veterans Day holiday observed in the U.S. began more than a century ago as Armistice Day to celebrate of the end of World War I. Over time, its name and purpose evolved into a day of recognition for all U.S. veterans of all wars as well as those currently serving in the military.
The U.S. struck nine targets at two locations in Syria on Monday to hit Iranian-aligned militias that had launched attacks on U.S. personnel over the last 24 hours, U.S. Central Command said.
The Veterans Day at The Wall event paid tribute to two lesser-known memorials at the site — marking the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the Three Servicemen statute and the 20th anniversary of the In Memorial plaque.
Three World War II veterans were honored at a ceremony marking 20 years since the opening of the WWII Memorial.
Spc. Carlito Lindsey, 26, a member of the 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, drowned Nov. 7 in the Tivoli River in Richmond Hill.
A cruise ship rescued four people from a disabled catamaran that was taking on water hundreds of miles off the coast of Bermuda on Sunday, officials said.
The wreck of the USS Edsall, a lone American destroyer that fought a Japanese fleet, has been found in the Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy says. Edsall’s zigs and zags in an attempt to escape prompted a Japanese observer to dub it “the dancing mouse.”
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.
Haiti’s international airport shut down on Monday after gangs opened fire at a commercial flight landing in Port-Au-Prince, prompting some airlines to temporarily suspend operations as the country swore in a new interim prime minister who promised to restore peace.
President Joe Biden honored the service of the men and women of the U.S. military by laying a wreath during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday morning.
President-elect Donald Trump plans to name longtime aide Stephen Miller as White House deputy chief of staff for policy as he moves quickly to install immigration hardliners into prominent White House posts
Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” the World Health Organization said on Monday, even as the virus continues to increase in other areas of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.
Israel said headway was being made in U.S.-mediated efforts to achieve a cease-fire in Lebanon, but that it still needed guarantees on resuming military operations if there are any infractions by Hezbollah.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba received some rare good news as parliament backed him to stay in the job ahead of an expected high-stakes meeting with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Israel has begun a construction project along the so-called Alpha Line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from Syria, apparently laying asphalt for a road right along the frontier, satellite photos show.