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KC-10 tanker flies last combat mission as retirement looms
The last KC-10 Extender tanker jet is scheduled to retire in September 2024.
Trump campaign ad targeting mail-in voters, featuring Esper and Milley, raises ethics questions
The Pentagon's top civilian and military officials are featured in a Trump campaign ad, despite their apolitical positions.
Best pics of the week: Sept. 20, 2020
Air Force B-52s at Bomber Task Force Europe, Marines fast roping at the Lightning Academy, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
Pentagon not confirming any plans to halve US troops in Afghanistan by the election
The Pentagon is not expecting the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to drop by half in the next three months.
Trump suggests US troop levels in Afghanistan could be cut in half by Election Day
He also called U.S. involvement in the Middle East the single biggest mistake in the history of America.
Nearly 14,000 feds face looming pandemic furloughs
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services plans to furlough 75 percent of its workforce, unless Congress intervenes.
By Jessie Bur
US pulls Patriot missiles, fighter aircraft from Saudi Arabia amid dispute
The U.S. is pulling two Patriot missile batteries and some fighter aircraft out of Saudi Arabia, an American official said Thursday, amid tensions between the kingdom and the Trump administration over oil production.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
VA employee convicted in $19 million home health fraud
Defendant took $1.5 million in kickbacks for fake referrals.
By Todd South
US expands troop, fighter jet presence at Saudi base
The U.S. troop presence here has grown to roughly 2,500 since last summer, when the U.S. announced it had begun deploying forces to what once was a major U.S. military hub.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Iran war vote and top-secret brief scheduled in Congress, despite impeachment
Washington is taking action next week in the face of a possible war with Iran.
By Joe Gould
Japan’s Abe meets Saudi king amid Persian Gulf troubles
Japan has sought to remain politically neutral as tensions in the Middle East escalated following President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
By Abdullah Al-Shihri, The Associated Press and Aya Batrawy, The Associated Press