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A small single-engine plane crashed near Raleigh, North Carolina, injuring the pilot.

President Joe Biden detailed Thursday his administration’s efforts to double its procurement of rapid COVID-19 tests and make high-quality masks available for free as coronavirus cases continue to spike nationwide.

It’s a hidden crisis that’s existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic

A Navy report has concluded there were sweeping failures by commanders, crew members and others that fueled the July 2020 arson fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard

The late Colin Powell was the first Black Secretary of State and deeply studied African American military history, says Brandeis University’s Chad Williams. “We need to remember him as part of that tradition. A tradition that is rife with struggle, with pain, with institutionalized racism, but also with heroic achievement and accomplishment,” Williams said.

The U.S. Marine Corps worked with the Japanese Defense Ministry to test land a U.S. F-35B fighter jet on a Japanese helicopter destroyer converted into an aircraft carrier.

NBC 6’s Claudia DoCampo is at FLL where an emotional sendoff was held before hundreds of Florida National Guard members took off to the Middle East as part of Operation Spartan Shield.

A new military investigation found the coronavirus pandemic curtailed trainings in 2020 and contributed to nine service members drowning off San Diego’s coast

Military academy students are marking the 10th anniversary of the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” this week.

U.S. officials were aware the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul could be targeted. But the gate was kept open to allow British personnel time to evacuate – then a suicide bomber struck Thursday. Politico reporter Lara Seligman talks about her reporting on that bombing and U.S. drone strikes in retaliation, which killed several civilians. Plus, we...

NBC 6’s Willard Shepard, a former Lt. Col. for the U.S Air Force, spoke with Army Reservist and Psychologist, Delvina Thomas, about the toll and confusion the attacks bring to those who have served.

Officials have not confirmed it, but terror group ISIS-K is believed to be behind the explosion that killed more than a dozen U.S. servicemembers and 60 Afghans at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday. Former CIA analyst and U.S. Army member Matt Zeller explains what he knows about the group.

In this new era of rule in Afghanistan, “we can’t be duped by the spin cycle of what the Taliban is saying that they are,”says Farah Pandith of the Council on Foreign Relations. She doesn’t want the world to forget that women and girls will have a hard time in the new Afghanistan.

Some newcomers to the U.S. will be on SIVs, or Special Immigrant Visas, while others will have refugee status as they flee the Taliban. Ashley Faye from Refugee Services of Texas believes as many as 40,000 people could come to the U.S., including 354 families headed to Texas.

Matt Zeller served in the Army in Afghanistan and says he is only alive because an interpreter saved his life from Taliban fighters. He’s speaking up as the U.S. withdraws from the country and leaving some people behind.

Matt Zeller of the advocacy group No One Left Behind says Taliban fighters are going into people’s homes and “literally stealing their daughters” as the U.S. leaves Afghanistan. He says the U.S. promised interpreters and others to help in their time of need, and that time is now.

The Pentagon is sending an additional 1,000 troops to Kabul to help with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, according to two defense officials.

President Joe Biden has authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan

Just weeks before the U.S. is scheduled to end its war in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is rushing 3,000 fresh troops to Kabul.

The Pentagon says it will be requiring all members of the U.S. military to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, a deadline that could be moved forward if it receives final FDA approval or if infection rates continue to rise.