Pentagon

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.

A Pentagon police officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit center outside the building, and a suspect was shot by law enforcement and died at the scene. Officer George Gonzalez was killed in the line of duty, officials said in an update Wednesday. Gonzalez was an Army veteran who was awarded the Army…

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is vowing he “won’t let grass grow under our feet” as the department begins to implement new vaccine and testing directives

A report summarizing what the U.S. knows about “unidentified aerial phenomena” — better known as UFOs — is expected to be made public as early as Friday

Advocates for an urgent evacuation argue that organizing such an operation after U.S. troops leave would be more dangerous, more expensive and politically more complicated. Drones and intelligence resources will be gone and the security situation at air bases will be uncertain.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signaled to lawmakers Thursday that he supports stripping commanding officers of the authority to decide whether troops accused of sexual assault should face prosecution, NBC News reports.

Whatever or whoever they are, they’re still out there