Mark Esper

In ceremonies across the country, Americans remember the heroes and victims of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 years after the terrorist attack.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper delivered remarks at a ceremony in Washington DC on Friday to commemorate the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

President Donald Trump has long been unhappy with Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and White House officials have talked to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie about taking the top Pentagon job should Trump decide to fire Esper, three senior administration officials said.

A Pentagon reports concludes that the use of National Guard reconnaissance planes in four U.S. cities to monitor the widespread protests earlier this year didn’t violate rules against the military collecting intelligence on Americans

The Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag on military installations, using a carefully worded policy that doesn’t mention the word ban or that specific flag

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will “not even consider” changing the name of any of the 10 Army bases that are named for Confederate Army officers. Two days earlier, Defense Secretary Mark Esper indicated that he was open to a broad discussion of such changes. “These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great…

Yet another former military leader, retired Marine Corps four-star general John Allen, is criticizing President Donald Trump’s response to the protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says he does not support using the military to crack down on nationwide protests triggered by the death of George Floyd, in direct opposition to comments made by President Trump.

The Pentagon says the U.S. launched airstrikes Thursday in Iraq, targeting the Iranian-backed Shia militia members believed responsible for the rocket attack that killed and wounded American and British troops at a base north of Baghdad.

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would increase counter-narcotics operations. Trump said the increased operations were aimed at protecting Americans from the “deadly scourge of illegal narcotics.” He added, “We must not let the drug cartels exploit the pandemic to threaten American lives.”

An uptick in Taliban attacks against Afghan forces that prompted a retaliatory U.S. airstrike has underscored the fragility of the peace deal between the Trump administration and the group.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he has given the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan the go-ahead to begin the initial withdrawal of U.S. troops

President Donald Trump say he’s dispatching the nation’s top diplomat to witness the signing of an agreement with the Afghan Taliban aimed at beginning a draw down of thousands of U.S. troops and ending America’s 18-year involvement in the war

Sen. Lindsey Graham and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, uniting against a Trump administration idea to withdraw U.S. troops from part of Africa, pushed back during a fiery exchange with Defense Secretary Mark Esper over the weekend, according to four people present at or familiar with the meeting.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is not without risk but “looks very promising.” Ahead of a formal announcement of the seven-day “reduction in violence” deal, Esper said it was time to give peace a chance...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper is portraying China as a growing threat to world order

The United States and the Taliban have agreed to a temporary truce that, if successful, would open the way for a deal that would bring American troops home from Afghanistan and end 18 years of war

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is looking to NATO allies for more help countering the Islamic State extremist group in Iraq and in bolstering U.S. defense efforts in the Middle East

Eleven U.S. troops were flown out of Iraq for evaluation of concussion-like symptoms in the days following an Iranian missile strike that President Donald Trump had said caused no harm to American forces, officials said Friday. The Pentagon’s chief spokesman, Jonathan Hoffman, said Defense Secretary Mark Esper did not know of the injuries until he was told Thursday afternoon...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says he believes the president’s claim that Iranian general Soleimani was planning an attack, but has not seen the evidence himself. Scott McGrew reports.