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President Joe Biden is visiting a Lockheed Martin plant in Alabama that manufactures Javelin antitank missiles.

Can the U.S. sustain the cadence of shipping vast amounts of arms to Ukraine while maintaining the healthy stockpile it may need should conflict erupt with North Korea, Iran or elsewhere?

Housing facilities for refugees at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey will remain open in the interim, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The slow pace has become a defining characteristic of Operation Allies Welcome, the largest U.S. refugee resettlement effort in decades.

Members of the AfghanEvac Coalition met in a video call with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to press the case for additional resources to help tens of thousands of people get out of Afghanistan.

The U.S. is welcoming tens of thousands of Afghans airlifted out of Kabul but has disclosed little publicly about a small group who remain overseas: dozens who triggered potential security issues during security vetting and have been sent to an American base in the Balkan nation of Kosovo.

Afghan refugees will soon be arriving again in the U.S. after a massive campaign to vaccinate them against measles.

The retirement of Brig. Gen. Mark Martins was disclosed by a civilian employee of the Defense Department late Thursday.

Officials said the U.S. expects to have American and coalition military command, its leadership, and most troops out by July Fourth, or shortly after that.

Despite unusual bipartisan support in Congress for evacuation of Afghan interpreters and others who helped the U.S., the administration hasn’t agreed to such a move.

The administration said it would return $2 billion taken from the Pentagon and use it for the construction projects for which the money was originally intended.

A 73-year-old from Pakistan who is the oldest prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay detention center was notified on Monday that he has been approved for release after more than 16 years in custody at the U.S. base in Cuba.

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