An explosion at a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan early Saturday killed Americans, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has ordered the Pentagon to stop seeking repayments of enlistment bonuses given to California National Guard members who served overseas.
House Speaker Paul Ryan wants the Pentagon to immediately stop trying to recover enlistment bonuses that were paid to thousands of soldiers in California when they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday on an unannounced visit to the country.
The Pentagon will let transgender individuals serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces.
An American serviceman killed in Iraq by fire from the Islamic State group has been identified as a Navy SEAL. A U.S. official says the SEAL was killed during an attack on Iraqi Kurdish positions outside the IS-held city of Mosul on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Tuesday that an American serviceman has been killed near Irbil in Iraq.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged on Thursday that he used a personal email account to conduct some government business during his first months on the job.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday he is ordering the military to open all combat jobs to women, rebuffing requests by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain front-line combat jobs.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the U.S. is expanding the U.S. special operations force in Iraq to help Iraqi and Kurdish forces fight Islamic State militants.