Pete Hegseth’s predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but he has given up leadership.

Is Russia’s military truly crippled, or does its “quantity over quality” approach to manning and equipment suggest it can ...

Australia has rejected as “propaganda” Moscow’s assertions that it had “no cards” to play in a regional military cooperation ...

Peace is out of reach for Ukraine due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing aggression, the defense ministers of the ...

Six Russian military aircraft were tracked operating in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone for about 2 1/2 hours ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has stated that there is no current indication that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to use nuclear weapons, even as Ukraine has escalated its military ...

ABC News’ Ian Pannell reports on the latest deployment in the Kursk region, the area within Russia where Ukraine has been waging an assault. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed that the U.S. has ...

File: Former US defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, Australia's Richard Marles ... a report by defence publication Janes last week that Russia had formally requested permission to base military ...

The US has for months been steadily pulling back from the group, which was founded by former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in 2022 after Russia’s invasion as a way for dozens of countries to ...

It's the first in-person gathering of the group of 50 countries organizing aid for Ukraine that didn't have the U.S. defense ...