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(SAN DEIGO) -- A Navy SEAL candidate has died and a second is in the hospital after falling ill on Friday just hours after both had successfully completed the g

Stocktrek Images/Getty Images(SAN DEIGO) -- A Navy SEAL candidate has died and a second is in the hospital after falling ill on Friday just hours after both had

As unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology becomes ever cheaper and more accessible, the threat of armed and GPS-guided drones is becoming a serious problem for U.S. forces in theater. In the past few months, Iranian-backed Iraqi militias have used small drones armed with explosives to attack Iraqi military bases housing U.S. forces several times, and the threat posed by such UAVs is only likely to grow in the months and years to come. Experts from MEI's Defense & Security Program ...

The world is watching The echoes of Vietnam in President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal are unmistakable. We fought for 20 years in Afghanistan, lost 2,448 Americans, and spent billions of dollars, only to be left with the same haunting question we faced in 1973 when President Richard Nixon pulled U.S. forces out of Vietnam: What did we accomplish? Perhaps it’s best to leave that loaded question to historians and those less passionate and implicated in that conflict. Right now, ou...

Who killed 11-year-old Dima Asaliah?: Reporters notebook • 7 min read White House concerned about humanitarian situation in Gaza Matt Gutman reports on the latest news in the Middle East following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas late last week.John Minchillo/AP Something was off about this one. The explosion punched a beach ball-sized hole in the wall. In a conflict in which thousand-pound bombs were so routinely used, it was comparably tiny. On May 19, Dima Asaliahs family said she wa...

ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn He claims SEALs agreed the detainee should die from practice medical procedures. • 9 min read Some Navy SEALs speak out about pardon of Special Operations Chief Eddie Gallagher The Navy SEAL team members reportedly told investigators they complained about Gallagher but said they were ignored.Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was found not guilty of the charge of murder in the dea...

Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was found not guilty of the charge of murder in the death of a young Islamic State detainee in Iraq in 2017, has made the bombshell allegation that the detainee died as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him and that his fellow SEALs had all agreed to the idea. Gallagher, the senior enlisted leader of his SEAL platoon...

Font Size: A retired Navy SEAL defended his involvement in the Capitol riots in a video uploaded to Facebook on Jan. 6, but later regretted that the riots had happened due to its consequences, ABC News reported. Adam Newbold, a Lisbon, Ohio native, described the riots from his perspective in the video posted after the riots at the U.S. Capitol building. “There was destruction breaching the Capitol. Our building, our house. To get in, you had to destroy doors and windows,” Newbold said. Newb...

I am not a terrorist: Retired Navy SEAL speaks after Capitol siege © Obtained by ABC News A screengrab from a video posted to Facebook by Adam Newbold following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol shows the former U.S. Navy SEAL on his way home from Washington, D.C. A retired U.S. Navy SEAL is facing questions from the FBI after boasting in a Facebook video about "breaching the Capitol" last Wednesday after traveling to Washington to join a rally for President Donald Trump, an assault he ...

The U.S. military is reviewing whether any active-duty service members may have participated in the assault on the U.S. Capitol.