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quavondo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. military suicides increased by 30 in 2023, according to a Defense Department report released Thursday, continuing an upward trend the Pentagon has struggled to combat. “The findings urgently demonstrate the need for the Department to redouble its work in the complex fields of suicide prevention and postvention,” Defense Secretary Lloyd […]
KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military has struck Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, U.S. officials told ABC News. “U.S. Central Command forces conducted multiple airstrikes on numerous Iran-backed Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,” a U.S. defense official said. The defense official said the weapons were used […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military’s temporary pier will be reattached to a beach in Gaza on Wednesday and will likely be removed permanently a few days later, three U.S. officials told ABC News. The $230 million pier system, known as Joint Logistics Over the Shore (JLOTS), had been authorized to remain operational in […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials are defending President Joe Biden’s decision to build a $230 million temporary pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid as a better-than-nothing solution to the worsening crisis there, even as rough waves have forced its closure several times in the past month and aid workers on shore say it’s […]
U.S. Central Command via Getty Images (TEL AVIV, Israel) — After being out of commission for almost two weeks, the U.S. military’s temporary pier has been repaired and was reattached to a beach in Gaza on Friday morning with humanitarian aid deliveries expected to resume “in the coming days,” said a top U.S. military official. […]
ilbusca/Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — A military aircraft has crashed off of the airfield at the Albuquerque International Sunport, the primary international airport in New Mexico, officials said. The only person on board, the pilot, was conscious and taken to a hospital with serious injuries, according to airport officials and Albuquerque Fire Rescue. Two civilians […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A targeted U.S. drone strike in northwest Syria one year ago Friday hit and killed a civilian, not the al-Qaeda leader it was looking for, the Pentagon said after an internal review. “U.S. Central Command acknowledges and regrets the civilian harm that resulted from the airstrike,” the combatant command said in […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military has begun to build the long-awaited port and causeway off the coast of Gaza that will establish a maritime corridor to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza, the Pentagon said Thursday. “I can confirm that U.S. military vessels, to include the USNS Benavidez, have begun to construct the initial […]
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 […]
A US Air Force (USAF) Bell-Boeing CV-22B Osprey tiltrotor military aircraft takes off at HeliOperations base, on March 30, 2022 in Portland, United Kingdom. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The US military has lifted its flight ban on V-22 Osprey aircraft after a deadly crash in Japan killed eight service members last fall, […]
