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The establishment of a new office, signed into law just before New Year’s, to study “unidentified aerial phenomenon” has divided the loose community of activists, researchers and pseudo scientists who hunt for proof that we are not alone in the universe.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at home

The Pentagon is finally being audited, but what will it take for the Defense Department to actually pass?

Warning that extremism in the ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials are issuing detailed new rules prohibiting service members from actively engaging in extremist activities.

The Pentagon says China is expanding its nuclear force much faster than U.S. officials predicted just a year ago

Austin said the U.S. needs to “consider some uncomfortable truths,” including that we “didn’t fully comprehend the depth of corruption and poor leadership” among the Afghan army’s senior ranks and that the Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban in 2020 “had a demoralizing effect on Afghan soldiers.”

A memorial service was held at the Pentagon Saturday, the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, to honor the lives lost.

So many of the victims killed on 9/11 were parents, leaving behind young children who have only faint memories of their mom or dad. One young man in Fairfax County, Virginia, is making sure he lives up to his father’s hopes and dreams, and his mother has been at his side all along, helping him to understand his father’s...

President Joe Biden is warning that it’s “highly likely” an Islamic State affiliate will try another attack in Afghanistan

President Biden has been considering whether to extend his self-imposed deadline for completing the airlift by Aug. 31 while the Taliban warned that extending American presence would “provoke a reaction.”

The Pentagon says it will require service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine now that the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval

President Biden’s national security adviser said that 3,900 people were airlifted out of Kabul over the past 24 hours.

The U.S. has rushed in troops, transport planes and commanders to secure the airport, seek Taliban guarantees of safe passage, and ramp up an airlift capable of ferrying between 5,000 and 9,000 people a day.

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the Taliban have agreed to allow safe passage for civilians trying to leave Afghanistan

Just weeks before the U.S. military is scheduled to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is rushing 3,000 fresh troops to the Kabul airport to help with a partial evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul

The Pentagon says it will be requiring all members of the U.S. military to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, a deadline that could be moved forward if it receives final FDA approval or if infection rates continue to rise.

The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press

The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has identified the officer who was killed in the line of duty Tuesday near the Pentagon.  Officer George Gonzalez was an Army veteran who was awarded the Army Commendation Medal for his service in Iraq, the agency said Wednesday morning. He was from Brooklyn, New York, and joined the Pentagon police force in 2018. ...

A Pentagon police officer has died after he was stabbed several times in the neck outside the Pentagon on Tuesday, sources confirmed with NBC News.

The Pentagon was temporarily put on lockdown Tuesday morning after multiple gunshots were fired and an officer was fatally stabbed near a platform by the facility’s Metro station.