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Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon has become a strategic dead end as its desire to guarantee its own security collides with the weakness of the Lebanese authorities. The government in Beirut is trying to use diplomacy to restore the Lebanese Armed Forces’ control over the territory.

The Pentagon faces an urgent budget shortfall caused largely by the war in Iran, with some critical lines of funding set to run out within weeks even as President Donald Trump escalates the conflict with Tehran, according to lawmakers and current and former U.S. officials.

Dozens of US troops were wounded in three Iranian strikes in Jordan that the Pentagon kept quiet in the week before Friday’s attack that killed two American soldiers and left one missing.

The U.S. military inquiry into the so-called Havana syndrome, the mysterious illness claimed by a litany of American intelligence officers, is tapping a controversial contractor: a private surveillance firm that once boasted of its ability to stalk American intelligence officers.

The U.S. cyber defense agency CISA is using Anthropic’s AI model Mythos to audit government software, ‌three people familiar with the matter said on Monday, another sign of government enthusiasm for adopting the AI startup’s tools even as the company navigates an ongoing standoff with the White House.

A former NASA contractor with top-secret security clearance accused the US space agency of quietly removing evidence of alien life from photos before sharing them with the public.

In Donald Trump’s first term, the president called an aide into his study off the Oval Office to assign a new target.

President Donald Trump boarded his very first flight on the self-dubbed ’world’s most luxurious plane’ this morning, departing for North Dakota to attend an America 250 celebration.

iPhone maker wants Trump administration to sign off on purchases to ease pressure from rising semiconductor prices.

The Pentagon has told senators it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the U.S. war against Iran, adding to what is already a sizable military spending boost being sought by President Donald Trump.

One previously unreported SpaceX investor has ties to Chinese military contractors.

A year ago, Ryan Tseng, the head of U.S. defense tech startup Shield AI, announced his company had turned a new page.

As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make noticeable progress in the conflict with Iran, senior SpaceX officials concluded that the Pentagon should pay more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network.

Google is facing a legal challenge from an AI engineer who claims he was unfairly dismissed after he protested against its work for the Israeli government, highlighting growing concerns about the social and ethical impacts of AI.

Ministers have been accused of downgrading air defences for the Falkland Islands as Argentina expands its air force.

Argentine President Javier Milei has openly supported his government’s bold attempt to reclaim the Falkland Islands from their British residents.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint this week to seize Kurdish general Mansour Barzani’s Beverly Hills mansion, alleging he bought and renovated it with $30 million in proceeds from a scheme that defrauded the U.S. Department of Defense during its fight against the Islamic State.

Tens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts.

A US F-15E Strike Eagle fighter has been shot down over Iran, prompting a frantic US search and rescue effort for its two-strong crew, in the first such incident since the start of the five-week-long war.

British troops shot down over a dozen Iranian “suicide” drones over an allied base in northern Iraq last night.

The Trump administration has begun planning for ground-level military and intelligence operations on Mexican soil to target drug cartels as part of what President Donald Trump has described as an "armed conflict" with narcotics trafficking organizations.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an aircraft carrier strike group currently stationed in Europe to the Caribbean region amid a massive buildup of US military forces in the region.