TEHRAN, Mar 26 -The Pentagon has formally greenlighted the transfer of up to $1 billion towards the construction of “roads and fences” as well as lighting along the US-Mexico border wall, as part of a crackdown on drug trafficking.
TEHRAN, Mar 13 - The U.S. Defense Department signed a memo on Tuesday that would enforce limitations on transgender people serving in the military, a policy that has been the subject of court challenges.
TEHRAN, Mar 09 - The United States has threatened Turkey with “grave consequences" if it proceeds with the purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system, after Ankara announced that the advanced missile complex will be ready for deployment before year-end.
TEHRAN, Mar 05 -The Pentagon has awarded its top weapons supplier Lockheed Martin Corp nearly $1 billion on behalf of Saudi Arabia for the installation of the US military giant’s THAAD missile system in the kingdom.
TEHRAN, Mar 02 - Proposed legislation to form a Space Force, a sixth branch of the U.S. Armed Forces, was sent to Congress, the Defense Department announced on Friday.
TEHRAN, Feb 24 - The US military’s expensive new tactical vehicle, designed to partially replace the ageing Humvee, is “not operationally suitable,” the US Defense Department’s testers have concluded.
TEHRAN, Feb 17 -Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Saturday he had not yet determined whether a border wall with Mexico was a military necessity or how much Pentagon money would be used.
TEHRAN, Feb 11 -Patrick Shanahan arrived in Afghanistan on Monday on his first trip as acting U.S. defence secretary and said it was important the Afghan government is involved in talks, from which it has so far been sidelined, to end the 17-year-old war.
TEHRAN, Feb 07 -The U.S. government's budget for fiscal year 2020 is expected to be released beginning on March 11, the Department of Defense expecting a spending plan in the range of $750 billion.
TEHRAN, December 29 -The US Defense Department is defending President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw 2,000 American troops out of Syria, saying the pull out is "deliberate, well thought-out, mutually supportive, and controlled."
TEHRAN, December 26 - The US Department of Defense, in a recent report sent to Congress, admitted Iran’s key role in ending the Afghan conflict, saying that Tehran “seeks a stable Afghan government”.
TEHRAN, December 24 - The US military has announced that the order to pull the American forces out of Syria has been signed, after the US and Turkish presidents agreed on subsequent measures.
TEHRAN, December 04 -The Pentagon has awarded the United Technologies subsidiary Pratt & Whitney Military Engines a $399.8 million contract for the F-35's F135 engine for both domestic and foreign partners on the program.
TEHRAN, November 20 -Former Republican congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul has said that “the Pentagon’s lost trillions have nothing to do with defense, adding that the “money propping up the high lifestyles of those connected to the military-industrial complex.”
TEHRAN, November 18 - All US military services have failed the first-ever audit of the country’s massive defense department, referred to by its officials as “the $2.7 trillion enterprise,” highlighting widespread problems in its cyber-security.
TEHRAN, October 30 - The Pentagon says it is sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border. It's an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the U.S.
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has called for a transparent investigation into the killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, following a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.
TEHRAN, October 23 - Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N), the Pentagon’s No. 1 weapons supplier, reported a 17 percent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday, driven by more production of F-35 fighter jets.