Nancy A. Youssef is a national security correspondent whose reporting has focused largely on the U.S. military and the Arab world.

An Army investigation obtained by BI describes what went wrong before the deadly drone attack last year at a US military ...

While it is rare for the Inspector General to investigate a U.S. defense secretary, the office most recently probed Hegseth's predecessor, President Joe Biden's defense secretary, Lloyd Austin ...

US attacks failed to achieve their goals, but were conducted in order to inflict a blow against Yemen, for daring to ...

The U.S. military said on Thursday a blast on Sunday near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa was ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani raised his country’s new flag at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday where he ...

Buria started the year as the secretary’s junior military assistant, a post he took on last April for Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin. The role — abbreviated as “JMA” — is a ...

President Donald Trump said he supports Pete Hegseth amid the Department of Defense secretary’s latest controversy involving using the messaging app Signal. “He’s doing a great job,” Trump ...

President Donald Trump said that the U.S. would continue to search for Austin Tice, an American journalist who disappeared in Syria in 2012. Tice, who previously served as a captain in the Marine ...

The arrests marked a pendulum swing for the government. Under the Assad regime, Syria served as a base of operations for several Palestinian armed factions. By Euan Ward and Reham Mourshed Euan ...