Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is bidding farewell to the forces and personnel he's led through a tumultuous term.

(Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius attend a meeting of the Ukraine ...

The United States has announced a new $500 million military aid package for Ukraine, coinciding with a meeting of defense ...

Ukrainian officials say they’ve captured two North Korean soldiers during fighting in Russia’s Kursk region late last week. “Two soldiers, though wounded, survived and were transported to Kyiv, where ...

Keeping Ukraine's momentum up in denying Putin's attempts to overrun it will depend in large measure on the willingness of ...

Defense Secretary Austin will bid farewell Friday following a term that included three major military crises, a global ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell in a speech Friday morning, just days before President-elect Trump is set to ...

Outgoing US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin proposes increasing defence spending by $50 billion for 2026, potentially pushing the budget beyond $1 trillion by 2030. The increase seeks to meet ...

Austin’s five-year spending plan includes a projection to spend as much as $1 trillion on defense as soon as 2028. Meanwhile, Biden increased the 2025 budget by just 1%. In a letter dated Nov ...

Outgoing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recommended the US government boost defense spending by about $50 billion more than projected in fiscal year 2026 with increases that would push the ...