German foreign minister Heiko Maas said NATO and defense spending will "no longer be as much in the spotlight" during a Joe Biden administration, Politico reported Monday. 
American airstrikes have killed a dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban members in Syria and Afghanistan since Thursday. 
The Trump administration is upending decades of American retreat in the final frontier to pull ahead of Russia and China in a 21st-century space race, according to a top Trump administration official. 
National security adviser Robert O’Brien told a Portsmouth, N.H., crowd Wednesday that the Navy hopes to equip all Navy destroyers with hypersonic missiles, a new weapons system often promoted by President Donald Trump.
The Biden campaign is pulling images of a retired Army general from campaign ads after he objected to the use of his likeness, Politico reported Monday. 
The United Arab Emirates submitted a formal request to buy high-tech F-35 fighter jets from the United States after its normalization of relations with Israel, Bloomberg Politics reported Friday. 
Germany's defense minister, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, called for a new measurement standard for the country's contributions to NATO, soon after the Pentagon authorized the transfer of thousands of troops out of Germany, Defense News reported Friday.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) was a no-show at closed-door and public Senate Armed Service Committee hearings delving into a sexual assault charge against the nominee for vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) released a plan last month to crack down on corporate lobbying influence at the Pentagon, but she has worked aggressively on behalf of major defense interests in Massachusetts during her time in the Senate. 
China and Russia have developed an increasingly close security relationship that poses new and difficult challenges to the United States, according to a new report. 