The U.S. has notified the United Nations that it is freezing funding to a U.N.-backed mission in Haiti tasked with fighting ...

East African leaders are planning a presidential summit to try to resolve the crisis. Kenyan President Ruto announced that ...

Dozens of demonstrators have attacked several foreign embassies, including those of Rwanda, France and Belgium, demanding ...

Instead of strengthening a weakened military—his primary duty as commander-in-chief—Obama evidently believed that it was more important to open all combat jobs to women. Assigning women to ...

If Hegseth is confirmed and restricts women from combat roles, "our military can no longer do its job," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said Thursday, after she declared in a floor speech that he is ...

WASHINGTON − At Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, senators picked relentlessly at his widely espoused – then quickly reversed – view that women don't belong in ...

A court in the Democratic Republic of Congo has sentenced three Chinese nationals to seven years in prison for engaging in activities related to illegal mining. The court, in Congo’s eastern ...

U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined Washington Sen. Patty Murray, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, in leading 20 other senators to introduce a resolution honoring the service ...

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, walked back his outspoken opposition to women serving in the US military's combat jobs as he faced intense questioning from ...

especially in light of his past comments that women should not serve in combat roles. He walked back some of those statements today, saying women will have access to combat roles. Women combat ...

“I’m straight up saying that we should not have women in combat roles,” Hegseth said on the podcast. “It hasn’t made us more effective.” “There is no U.S. military as we know it ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday, Jan. 14, where he was grilled about his past behavior and ...