Browsing: All news

Why the secret trip to Russia? According to multiple news outlets, the American CIA Director John Ratcliffe arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, 25 August, for previously unannounced meetings with senior Kremlin officials. Sources who spoke to CBS News also confirmed that the US Central Intelligence chief was in the Russian capital.

Reports of the CIA Director’s trip began not long after a US Air Force (USAF) Boeing C-17A Globemaster III (call sign RCH4555, tail number 07-7181) cargo lifter aircraft was seen landing at the VIP terminal of Moscow’s Vnukovo airport.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Before Operation Epic Fury, the Army’s Network Enterprise Technology Command transferred digital services across theaters for the first time, according to the unit’s top officer, so the Army’s Middle East hub could have network support in the event Iran targeted its critical communication infrastructure.
Maj. Gen.

The Air Force announced Tuesday that VivSoft Technologies will develop and field a new platform intended to consolidate the service’s fragmented aircrew scheduling, training and readiness-management capabilities.
The company received a $100 million Other Transaction Authority production agreement for the Aerospace Readiness Enterprise System (ARES) program, which will consolidate multiple Air Force scheduling software tools into a single enterprise environment enabled by artificial intelligence. The service plans to begin rolling out ARES across major commands in 2027.

All sailors and Marines will soon have to take a new yearly gas “mask fit” test after the two services amended their gas mask rules to meet the Pentagon’s recent overhaul of grooming standards.
The new annual Chemical, Biological Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) mask test requirements were recently published in official Marine Corps and Navy administrative notices, or ADMINs. The Marine Corps policy incorporates new pass-fail training compliance statuses while the Navy rules speed up the timeline for sailors to comply with the mask fit training and certification tests.

The end of World War II was over 80 years ago, and the number of Americans who served during the war is starting to number fewer and fewer. August 23, 2026, was a milestone for that dwindling number of veterans, as Roy Drinkard, World War II veteran and oldest living Marine passed away at the age of 106.
Also Read: TSA is adding dedicated security lines for military, veterans, and their families
Born on July 12, 1920 in Falkville, Ala., Drinkard’s father was a businessman who also served as the town’s mayor for 20 years. Young Roy attended St. Bernard Preparatory School in Cullman, Ala.

President Donald Trump is approaching the November midterms with approval ratings holding at a record low, with voters evidently concerned that the war with Iran is unlikely to end any time soon.

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that just 31% of Americans support U.S. military action against Iran, down from 34% earlier in August and 37% in March, shortly after the conflict began.

The U.S. Navy is looking to add a new “standoff” anti-submarine warfare weapon system to its arsenal and is reaching out to industry to see what capabilities companies have to offer.
The market research effort, which kicked off Tuesday with the release of an RFI, is in support of the service’s Silent Anvil Air-Launched Torpedo (SAA-LT) program.
SAA-LT is billed as a next-generation delivery system being developed to counter emerging threats in undersea warfare and “expand the range” of drones and manned aircraft that can conduct anti-submarine operations.

Air Force 2nd Lt. Leah R. Borsich was one of eight people killed when a plane carrying her team crashed while trying to land in foggy conditions at a remote radar site in western Alaska, service officials announced.
Borsich, 23, was a project programmer with the 611th Civil Engineer Squadron, an Air Force news release says. She was assigned to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.

Britain has said it will give Kyiv access to confidential missile technology. On a visit to Kyiv for Ukrainian Independence Day on Monday, August 24, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced the new plans.

The catch: the proposals are unlikely to bear much fruit until 2027 at the earliest, and what Ukraine requires right now is existing missile stockpiles with projectiles capable of intercepting Russian ballistic attacks.

The U.S. State Department is drawing up plans to return diplomats to embassies across the Middle East.

Embassies that were previously evacuated at the beginning of the war with Iran include countries that have been targeted during the conflict, such as Israel.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at a meeting of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at Union Station in Washington, D.C. (Official White House photo by Joyce N.