Military

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law Tuesday night in an unannounced TV address.

Women and racial diversity are vital to the strength of U.S. armed forces, outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in an exclusive interview with NBC News.

The discovery, announced Monday, has revealed the resting place of more than 200 servicemen who died three months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A U.S. jury has awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago.

The U.S. Army awarded a $435 million contract on Friday to build a TNT production plant in western Kentucky that will become the first domestic source for the explosive material in decades, officials said.

Hundreds of veterans who were dismissed from the U.S. military under the now-repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy have been given honorable discharges following a yearlong review, the Pentagon announced Tuesday. 

The United States has pledged additional troops and an advanced missile defense system to Israel, it is first time U.S. forces have been deployed to Israel since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023. As seen on air on Oct. 13, 2024.

A military investigation has concluded that two U.S. Navy SEALs drowned as they tried to climb aboard a ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen because of glaring training failures and a lack of understanding about what to do after a fall into deep, turbulent waters.

Woodson’s 95-year-old widow, Joann, was presented Tuesday with the Distinguished Service Cross he was awarded posthumously for his extraordinary heroism.

The U.S. military has moved more than 100 soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers to a desolate island in Alaska amid a recent increase in Russian military planes and vessels approaching the state.

A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.

Arlington National Cemetery on Tuesday confirmed an incident took place when former President Donald Trump visited there Monday to commemorate the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate attacks in Afghanistan.

A U.S. Army private who fled to North Korea just over a year ago will plead guilty to desertion and four other charges and take responsibility for his conduct.

Officials at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland say Air Force security guards exchanged gunfire with someone who twice opened fire at an entrance to the base.

The remains of a missing World War II soldier from Oregon have been identified.

Louis Gigliotti just recently got his veteran benefits. They came 78 years after the 103-year-old World War II veteran was discharged from the U.S. Army.

U.S. military personnel — “active, former, and retired” — can visit the attraction, for free, throughout July.

A descendent of a Union soldier getting the Medal of Honor from President Joe Biden for conspicuous gallantry during the Civil War says it’s an opportunity for his ancestor to be remembered as “a brave soldier who did what he thought was right.”

Former U.S. Marine Gerry Brooks died alone at a nursing home in Maine, abandoned and all but forgotten.

Built in Santa Monica, the D-Day Doll played a crucial role when allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy in the beginning of the end of the Nazi occupation of western Europe.