Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III's aides are struggling to explain why no one at the Pentagon informed the White House or U.S. military leaders that the president’s principal civilian military advisor and a top Cabinet official in the presidential line of succession had ...
The U.S. conducted a rare drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 4 that killed a leader of an Iranian-backed militia, in an effort to deter further attacks on American forces in Iraq and Syria. The Pentagon described the strike, which took place at noon local ...