The United States and other world leaders have agreed on a way to implement a joint plan of action aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, according to statements from the White House and Department of State. Beginning Jan....

The 2014 National Defense Authorization Act changed the review process for awarding the nation’s highest military honor for valor in combat. Specifically, the bill lifted a long-standing restriction that prevented a service member from earning multiple Medals of Honor, even...

Two coalition service members and one International Security Force civilian were killed when their aircraft crashed on Jan. 10 in Eastern Afghanistan, reported ISAF officials. Although the ISAF casualty report does not list the nationalities of the victims or the...

The former vice commander of the Air Force’s 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman AFB, Mo., has penned a critique of a recent Foreign Affairs article that suggested American military power would be more effective if the US dismantled the Air...

Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Eric Fiel relieved Brig. Gen. Jon Weeks from command of AFSOC’s Air Warfare Center at Hurlburt Field, Fla., on Jan. 9, due to a “loss of trust and confidence in his leadership.”...

The Senate Armed Services Committee approved the nominations of Jamie Morin, the Air Force’s top financial manager, to be the Defense Department’s director of cost assessment and program evaluation; Frank Klotz, former commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, to...

Brig. Gen. Scott Smith, deputy commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, has been tapped to be the inspector general for Headquarters Air Mobility Command at Scott AFB, Ill., according to a Jan. 9 general...

Third Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin will retire as a two-star, confirmed a US Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa spokeswoman. Franklin’s decision to overturn a military sexual assault conviction in February 2013 sparked a contentious debate on...

NATO’s Baltic air policing mission recently celebrated a decade defending the airspace over the allied member states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. “The execution of this mission by different allies to an exacting level of performance…highlights the importance of bringing...

An entry in Thursday’s column on the International Space Exploration Forum in Washington, D.C., should have stated that China was the third country to successfully land on the moon. We’ve corrected the original entry.