Pentagon

Inside DARPA, The Pentagon Agency Whose Technology Has 'Changed the World'

1:36pm March 28, 2017

Journalist Sharon Weinberger discusses the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, which develops innovative scientific technologies for the military. Her new book is The Imagineers of War.

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The Marines will join the approximately 500 U.S. troops already in Syria, such as these U.S. forces on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Sunday.

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U.S. Is Sending About 400 Marines To Syria

3:00pm March 09, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The Pentagon says the new troops will fire artillery rounds at ISIS fighters in support of the local forces who are trying to take back the ISIS capital, Raqqa.

U.S. Strikes Terrorism Targets In Yemen As War Against Al-Qaida Persists

3:34pm March 02, 2017

by Philip Ewing

American warplanes targeted terrorist fighters, their weapons and equipment in what may be the first U.S. attack in Yemen since a deadly special operations raid in January.

Navy SEALs participate in special operations urban combat training in 2012. The training exercise familiarizes special operators with urban environments and tactical maneuvering during night and day operations.

Yemen Aftermath: Trump's First Military Raid Continues To Raise Questions

8:01pm February 02, 2017

Witnesses tell NPR about the raid, the military's first under President Trump. It resulted in deaths of a Navy SEAL and civilians. A CENTCOM investigation is underway, but similar raids could follow.

One U.S. Service Member Killed, Several Others Injured During Raid In Yemen

1:37pm January 29, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

U.S. Central Command says the soldiers were conducting a raid against a local al-Qaida affiliate in the region. A former Yemeni minister tells NPR his granddaughter was also killed in the raid.

President Trump, with Defense Secretary James Mattis, shows his signature on an executive action to rebuild the military, during an event at the Pentagon on Friday.

National

At Pentagon, Trump Declares His Aim Of 'Rebuilding' The Military

7:05pm January 27, 2017

by Greg Myre

The president met with the military brass and signed an executive action that calls for bulking up the military. He also signed a measure that freezes immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.

The Pentagon says many of the ISIS fighters targeted in Wednesday's strike escaped from the former ISIS stronghold of Sirte, shown here during fighting in September.

U.S. Stealth Bombers Strike ISIS Training Camps In Libya

12:14pm January 19, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The Pentagon said the two ISIS training camps housed fighters who had escaped their former stronghold in Sirte, on Libya's central coast. It added that militants there were planning attacks in Europe.

A Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121 F-35B Lightning II prepares to make a vertical landing in Yuma, Ariz., in 2013. President-elect Donald Trump asked Boeing to price a version of one of its fighter jets to be competitive with Lockheed Martin's F-35 airc

Amid Trump Defense Spending Statements, His Plans Are Unclear

4:14pm December 23, 2016

by Philip Ewing

As President-elect Donald Trump tweets about expanding nuclear security and the cost of combat aircraft, some wonder whether his hardball posts are just "Art of the Deal" tactics to help the Pentagon.

A Navy file photo shows T-AGS 60 Class Oceanographic Survey Ship, USNS Bowditch. The Navy says the ship's mission includes oceanographic sampling and data collection and the handling, monitoring and servicing of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), among ot

World News

China Seizes U.S. Underwater Drone From International Waters, Pentagon Says

2:51pm December 16, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

U.S. officials say an unmanned underwater vehicle was seized by a Chinese ship on Thursday, about 50 nautical miles from the Philippines, before the Navy ship operating the drone could retrieve it.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks alongside retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis after the two met in Bedminster Township, N.J., in late November.

Politics & Government

Trump Picks Gen. James Mattis As His Defense Secretary

9:12pm December 01, 2016

by Bill Chappell

President-elect Donald Trump has now chosen nominees for nearly half of the Cabinet-level jobs in his incoming administration.