Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is bidding farewell to the forces and personnel he's led through a tumultuous term.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin used their final meeting in Germany to press the incoming Trump administration not to give up on Kyiv’s fight.

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The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $500 million in weapons and equipment in what’s expected to be the final military aid package under the outgoing Biden administration.

Zelenskyy and Austin Use Their Final Meeting to Press Trump to Keep Supporting Ukraine RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin used their final meeting in Germany to press the incoming Trump administration to not give up on Kyiv’s fight, warning

(Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius attend a meeting of the Ukraine ...

Keeping Ukraine's momentum up in denying Putin's attempts to overrun it will depend in large measure on the willingness of President-elect Trump to support the democracy President Vladimir Putin of Russia appalled the world with his full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago.

Ukrainian officials say they’ve captured two North Korean soldiers during fighting in Russia’s Kursk region late last week. “Two soldiers, though wounded, survived and were transported to Kyiv, where they are now communicating with the Security Service of Ukraine,” President Volodymir Zelenskky announced Saturday on social media.

Defense Secretary Austin will bid farewell Friday following a term that included three major military crises, a global pandemic and a brush with cancer.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell in a speech Friday morning, just days before President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House. During his four years helming the Pentagon, the nation’s first Black Defense secretary was confronted with at least three major global conflicts.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, endured fierce Democratic grilling over everything from his inexperience and his past opposition to women in combat to emerge largely unscathed among Republicans at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.