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ABC News U.S. military crews have airlifted nonessential U.S. Embassy personnel in Haiti out of harm’s way amid a surge of gang-related violence against the government, according to a statement Sunday from the U.S. Southern Command. The U.S. military said it carried out the operation in Haiti to get some embassy personnel out of the […]

CT757fan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying six service members crashed off the Japanese coast at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, local officials said. At least one service member who had been on board was located, officials said, although there was no immediate confirmation on the person’s condition. The Japan Coast Guard […]

Carol Yepes/Getty Images (LONDON) — A small spelling error has resulted in thousands of emails intended for the U.S. military being sent instead to Mali, an issue that Pentagon officials said they’ve taken steps to mitigate. The suffix used for U.S. military emails is .mil, but leaving the “i” out by mistake would result in […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Although U.S. officials have accused China’s military of carrying out dangerous provocations in recent days, diplomats from both countries are ramping up engagement at the same time — a two-prong approach that seems to be increasingly driven by Beijing. On Monday, White House spokesperson John Kirby condemned a close call in […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military conducted retaliatory airstrikes in eastern Syria on Thursday against Iranian-backed groups after a drone strike targeting a U.S. base in the region killed a U.S. contractor and injured six others, including five U.S. service members, the Pentagon said. “Earlier today, a U.S. contractor was killed and five U.S. […]

U.S. European Command (WASHINGTON) — U.S. European Command has released dramatic declassified video taken by the MQ-9 Reaper drone that shows the moment that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with it after attempting to spray the drone with jet fuel. The video was taken from a camera on the drone’s underside and shows two […]