Ash Carter

Pentagon Chief seeks to improve family leave and child care

Defense Secretary Ash Carter unveiled a series of family-friendly proposals on Thursday for the mil...

Jan 31, 2016 07:11 AM EST

Pentagon chief fires military assistant, cites misconduct allegations

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter removed his senior military assistant, Lieutenant General Ron Lewi...

Nov 12, 2015 10:34 PM EST

McCain calls on Pentagon to clarify South China Sea patrol

The chairman of the influential U.S. Senate Armed Services committee has called on the Pentagon to c...

Nov 11, 2015 10:23 PM EST

MSF says planes may have attacked staff fleeing Kunduz hospital

Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Thursday it was hard to believe a U.S. strike ...

Nov 06, 2015 12:54 AM EST

'Hope to see you again': China warship to U.S. destroyer after South China Sea patrol

As soon as the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen breached 12-nautical-mile territorial limits arou...

Nov 06, 2015 12:45 AM EST

Pentagon chief to visit U.S. aircraft carrier in South China Sea

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter will visit a U.S. aircraft carrier transiting the South China S...

Nov 04, 2015 09:06 PM EST

ASEAN defense chiefs cancel joint statement over South China Sea row

Plans for a ceremonial joint statement at the end of a Southeast Asian regional defense forum were d...

Nov 04, 2015 12:07 AM EST

U.S. Navy plans two or more patrols in South China Sea per quarter

The U.S. Navy plans to conduct patrols within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands in the South C...

Nov 02, 2015 07:55 PM EST

China naval chief says minor incident could spark war in South China Sea

China's naval commander told his U.S. counterpart that a minor incident could spark war in the South...

Oct 30, 2015 02:19 AM EDT

Israel faces threats ranging from rockets to nuclear: defense minister

Israel faces a wide variety of threats ranging from Islamic militants wielding missiles and rockets ...

Oct 28, 2015 01:26 AM EDT

Angry China shadows U.S. warship near man-made islands

A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed close to one of China's man-made islands in the South China S...

Oct 27, 2015 10:35 PM EDT

Sailing in South China Sea not provocative, U.S. says

U.S. naval vessels sailing through international waters in the South China Sea, including areas clai...

Oct 16, 2015 09:14 AM EDT

U.N. to hold off on separate Afghan bombing probe for now

The United Nations said on Monday it would wait for the results of U.S., NATO and Afghan investigati...

Oct 05, 2015 09:28 PM EDT

Russia begins Syria air strikes in its biggest Mideast intervention in decades

Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades...

Sep 30, 2015 06:56 PM EDT

U.S. to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe

The United States will deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe very soon as part of a broader effort to s...

Aug 25, 2015 03:44 AM EDT

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