Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife landed in New York on Jan. 3 hours after a dramatic U.S. military operation in Caracas that led to their capture. ... President Trump said in a press conference that the U.S. would “run” Venezuela temporarily during the transition, and “get the oil flowing.” Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled on Jan. 4 the U.S. doesn't plan to directly govern Venezuela, but will continue to enforce an “oil quarantine” as part of a plan to influence policy.
At least one, and possibly two, of the U.S. Air Force’s secretive RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drones appear to have taken part in the operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife.
U.S. intelligence agencies supported an overnight operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, the nation's capital, which also included strikes against several military sites throughout the city.
The AFA Nominating & Governance Committee will meet this spring to select candidates for open AFA National Officers and Board of Directors positions for election at the AFA 2026 National Convention in September. To be considered as a candidate or recommend someone, please contact field@afa.org by Feb. 27.
China launched major military exercises in the waters and airspace around Taiwan Dec. 29 in what it called a “stern warning” against outside interference in Chinese affairs, as tensions grow with the U.S. and Japan over the security of the island.
Throughout 2025 in the war between Russia and Ukraine, in largely unseen and unheralded moments ... the era of killer robots has begun to take shape on the battlefield. Across the roughly 800-mile front and over the airspace of both nations, drones with newly developed autonomous features are now in daily combat use.
The U.S. military announced Dec. 30 that it had killed seven Islamic State members and captured more than a dozen as it continues to put pressure on the terror group in Syria, weeks after an ambush there killed two Iowa National Guard soldiers.
Amid a global race to augment military forces with unmanned systems, the Air Force this year notched first flights for prototype drone wingmen, a step lauded by officials as a key milestone for a top service priority. But uncertainty remains for the future of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, and two critical questions are poised to be answered in the next year. The first: What will the Air Force decide to build? And second, what comes next?
Air Force Special Operations Command is interested in equipping its AC-130J Ghostrider aircraft with SpaceX’s made-for-government Starlink/Starshield terminals.
The U.S. military has officially moved away from long-standing height-and-weight tables and the traditional tape test in favor of a waist-to-height ratio as the primary body composition standard for service members.
Kirsten Davies has been formally sworn in as chief information officer at the Defense Department where she’ll oversee a “broad portfolio” of important programs, the Pentagon announced.
The U.S. Space Force is moving to modernize the computer networks that underpin its operations, awarding new work under a $12.5 billion Air Force-led contract vehicle designed to overhaul aging military infrastructure.
Leaving the airspace above New York City at 2,455 miles per hour, SR-71 tail number 64-17972 would set a transatlantic speed record on Sept. 1, 1974.
