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Supreme Court upholds Trump's ban on transgender military members while appeals continue

The justices blocked a lower court order that temporarily halted the ban's enforcement.

May 06, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Christina Gatti
Military personnel of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion take part in a parade in honor of Joan d'Arc in Rouen, France, 1945.

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  • History

A Black, all-female WWII unit got a congressional medal 80 years after making history

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for decades. Just two of the 855 women are believed to be alive for the ceremony.

April 30, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Houthi supporters chant slogans during a weekly, anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen on Friday, April 18.

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  • Middle East

Houthi rebels have shot down 7 US Reaper drones worth $200 million in recent weeks

The U.S. has increased its attacks on the Houthis, launching daily strikes since March 15, when President Donald Trump ordered a new, expanded campaign.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Dan Caine, now chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on April 1.

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  • Politics

What to know about Dan Caine, the nation's newly-confirmed top military adviser

The Senate voted around 2 a.m. Friday to confirm retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump plucked him from retirement to be his top military adviser.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • Juliana Kim,
  • and 1 more
A House lawmaker points to text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a hearing on March 26. The hearing, held by the House Intelligence Committee, addressed Trump administration officials inadvertently including a journalist on a high-level Signal group chat in which plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen were discussed.

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  • National

Trump officials downplay the Signal leak. Some military members see a double standard

The news of the leak of life-and-death operational details to a reporter lands differently with veterans and active-duty troops, who can be prosecuted for much less significant "spillage" incidents.

March 27, 2025
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
Rescue members work at a bomb accident site where a South Korean fighter jet accidentally dropped bombs on a civilian area during training, in Pocheon, South Korea, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Yonhap via AP)

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  • Asia

Fighter jets accidentally drop bombs during exercises, injuring 8 South Koreans

The air force said the jets were taking part in a drill with the U.S. military in Pocheon, a city close to the border with North Korea, when they dropped bombs just outside a firing range.

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A U.S. Air Force captain goes over the day's mission route map with an Afghan National Army officer with assistance from an Afghan interpreter (left), before the U.S.-Afghan convoy sets off in Ghazni, Afghanistan, on March 16, 2009.

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  • National

Afghans who helped the U.S. are in dangerous limbo after Trump's order on refugees

Tens of thousands of Afghans who risked their lives working for the U.S. government or military are now in limbo after the Trump administration issued two executive orders targeting refugees.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Juliana Kim
From left: Michelle Salaün, Jeannine Plassard and Marie-Annick Gouez, the daughters of Catherine Tournellec Salaün, stand at their mother's grave in Plabennec, in France's Brittany region, in June.

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  • Europe

In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder

In 1944, as Allied troops celebrated D-Day victory, a French family experienced a trauma that would be felt for generations: a murder and sexual assault so traumatic they are only now coming to terms with it.

November 16, 2024
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
John Kerry (center) stands with other military personnel in an unspecified location circa the 1960s. The details of Kerry's service during the Vietnam War, and his subsequent anti-war activism, became the focus of a veterans' group's smear campaign against him during his 2004 presidential campaign.

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  • Politics

A brief history of swift boating, from John Kerry to Tim Walz

Republicans' attacks on Tim Walz's military record mirror a 2004 smear campaign against John Kerry in some key ways. Here's how swift boating played out then — and what's different this time around.

August 10, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black sits in a glass cage in courtroom in Vladivostok, Russia, on Wednesday.

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  • Europe

Russian court sentences U.S. soldier to nearly 4 years, state media reports

The sentencing of Staff Sgt. Gordon Black on charges of stealing and threats of murder further complicates U.S. relations with Russia, which have grown increasingly tense over the fighting in Ukraine.

June 19, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Fighters carry the coffin of Abu Baqir al-Saadi during his funeral on Feb. 8. He was a senior commander in Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.

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  • Middle East

What fighting in the Middle East means for the U.S. troop presence in Iraq

After the U.S. killed a commander of an Iran-backed militia in Baghdad, pressure is mounting on Iraq's government to expel America's 2,500 military personnel.

February 22, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
People, rescuers and security forces gather around a vehicle hit by a drone strike, reportedly killing three people, including two leaders of a pro-Iran group, in Baghdad on Wednesday.

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  • Middle East

U.S. drone strike kills a leader of an Iran-backed militia in Iraq

A U.S. drone strike in the Iraqi capital has killed at least one leader of an Iran-backed militia, Kataib Hezbollah.

February 07, 2024
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By:
  • Jane Arraf and
  • James Hider
U.S. Central Command released this undated photo as part of its announcement of renewed airstrikes against Houthi targets on Saturday.

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  • National Security

The U.S. targets Iranian proxies for a second day in a row

The new round of U.S. strikes is far more extensive and deadly than those that have been launched since October, when the Israel-Hamas war began and pro-Iranian groups began their attacks.

February 04, 2024
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By:
  • NPR Washington Desk
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday.

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  • National Security

U.S. hits Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria in retaliation for deadly strikes

The strikes are more extensive and deadly than those launched since last October, when the Israeli-Gaza war began and pro-Iranian groups started an uptick of attacks.

February 02, 2024
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Jane Arraf
A soldier takes a break during the "Eager Lion" multinational military exercises that the U.S. is part of in Jordan in September 2022.

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  • National Security

Biden vows to respond after 3 U.S. troops were killed and 34 wounded in a drone attack

A coalition of militias backed by Iran claimed credit for the attack on a base in Jordan. It comes amid the conflict in the Middle East that the U.S. has been working to keep from spreading.

January 29, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
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