In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense ...

President Trump came into office promising to disentangle the U.S. military from its costly forever wars in the Middle East.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is meeting with important allies during his Indo-Pacific trip, with one notable exception: South Korea, at a time of growing concerns of regional threats and ...

Still, Hegseth’s message was clear: deterrence is key in the Indo-Pacific region in the face of China’s aggression — and the ...

Beijing seeks to assert its claim over the bulk of the South China Sea ... stationed in sprawling bases in Japan and Korea. Speaking alongside Hegseth, Teodoro, the Philippine defense secretary ...

The Supreme Court has blocked , for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century ...

By Sui-Lee Wee Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth used his first trip to ... It will be Australia and South Korea and other nations in this part of the world,” he said, where, together ...

South Korea and the United States plan to hold their key regular defense talks in Washington next week, a Pentagon spokesperson said Thursday, in a sign that the allies are maintaining close security ...