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Top US military and intelligence leaders are pushing President Barack Obama to fire National Security Agency chief Admiral Michael Rogers. (Photo: AP)

Pentagon, military leaders seek NSA chief's removal

President-elect Donald Trump was said to be considering Rogers as director of national intelligence in his incoming...

20 Nov 2016 10:59 AM IST

US President Donald Trump issued a revised travel ban order on Monday. (Photo: AP)

Trump makes spending suggestions to Pentagon in 2018 US budget

Donald Trump has asked for USD 30 billion of the military money immediately, in the form of a supplemental request on...

17 March 2017 8:48 AM IST

Patriot missiles. (Photo: AP)

US approves sale of $2 billion worth of missiles to UAE

The UAE government has requested the possible sale of 60 Patriot missiles with canisters and 100 Patriot guidance...

12 May 2017 11:21 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

N Korea's test-firing missile apparently reaching Alaska, Trump...

As well as leaning on China, Trump has also been seeing if he can work with South Korea's new leader Moon Jae-Ininviting...

5 July 2017 5:49 PM IST

Kim Jong Un also has said North Korea is close to an ICBM test-launch. (Photo: AP)

US carries out joint missile drill with S Korea amid Pyongyang's...

Pentagon said that US's commitment to the defence of its allies in the region, South Korea and Japan, in the face of...

5 July 2017 11:19 AM IST

US President Donald Trump thanks the audience at the end of joints statements with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Trump says transgender people barred to serve US military

US President Donald Trump's announcement Wednesday morning on Twitter was after consulting with 'Generals and military...

26 July 2017 7:19 PM IST

A picture of Hwasong-12, a new type of ballistic missile, launched from an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo: AP)

Post ICBM test, Pentagon detects signs of new North Korea missile test

After North Korea's July 4 test, the United States launched a push at the United Nations for tougher measures against...

26 July 2017 11:18 AM IST

Kim Jong Un also has said North Korea is close to an ICBM test-launch. (Photo: AP)

After US tests missile, North Korea says it can launch ICBMs at any...

The North has carried out two atomic tests and dozens of missile launches since the beginning of last year.

31 May 2017 4:12 PM IST

An rocket designed to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missiles is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif. on Tuesday, May 30, 2017. The Pentagon says it has shot down a mock warhead over the Pacific in a success for Americas missile defense program. (Photo: AP)

US military test fires first-ever ICBM-type missile

North Korea has dramatically ramped up missile tests over the past year in its effort to develop an ICBM that can strike...

31 May 2017 10:52 AM IST

Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Islamic State groups caliphate to a rump and decimated its fighters in 2016 but the organisation remains a potential threat.

Civilian deaths in Iraq-Syria on rise after US-led air strikes against...

According to an official tally at the end of April, the Pentagon confirmed at least 352 civilians had been killed.

27 May 2017 8:43 AM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

Following various death claims of Baghdadi, Pentagon says IS leader...

Russia's army said in mid-June that it was seeking to verify whether it had killed the IS chief in a May air strike in...

22 July 2017 12:59 PM IST

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis presented the initial draft of the review to Trumps top national security advisors. (Photo: AP)

US Defence Secy says denial of USD 350 million aid to Pak reality, not...

Pakistan-based Haqqani network is blamed for a number of high-profile attacks on US and Western interests in war-torn...

22 July 2017 12:35 PM IST