Australia has canceled a contract with France for conventional submarines and instead will build nuclear-powered submarines using U.S. technology because of changing strategic conditions in the region, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday.

The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump's presidency, saying the conversations were in keeping with his duties as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

WASHINGTON – Democrats and Republicans alike grilled Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the U.S. exit from Afghanistan in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday, with the nation’s top diplomat pointing blame at the Afghan government and former President Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON – Twenty years after Sept. 11, 2001, five men accused of plotting the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people that day are still awaiting trial before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Like many Americans old enough to remember the fall of Saigon, the video of people being evacuated from Kabul brings back memories of another time and another war.

Twenty years ago, Jason Murley was not a lieutenant colonel stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base.

War in Europe had been over for years, but the trauma continued, as illustrated by Col. Charles A. Forbes’ visit to Sacred Heart Hospital .

Gloria Hackwith lost her son, Army Chief Warrant Officer Clint Prather, in the conflict in Afghanistan 16 years ago. Last month, she had to say goodbye to his stepfather, Dave Hackwith, who died after contracting COVID-19.  

At least 18 local military veterans died over the 20 years the United States was in conflict in Afghanistan after 9/11. The men and women who died left behind families members now coming to terms, in their own ways, with the country's complicated exit from the country and the legacy of those who didn't come back. 

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Wednesday that it's “possible” that the U.S. will have to coordinate with the Taliban on any future counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against Islamic State militants or others.

The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, some barely older than the war.

America's 20-year war in Afghanistan entered its final hours Monday with the last Americans seeking to be evacuated and the U.S. military preparing to end its airlift and depart the Taliban-controlled capital.

Military troops must immediately begin to get the COVID-19 vaccine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo Wednesday, ordering service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.”

The Pentagon said Monday that it will require service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine now that the Pfizer vaccine has received full approval.

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens.

WASHINGTON – On July 8, President Joe Biden stood in the East Room of the White House and delivered a clear message to the Afghans who served the U.S. government as interpreters and in other roles critical to the United States’ 20-year military presence in their country.

Longtime American foreign correspondent Joseph L. Galloway, best known for his book recounting a pivotal battle in the Vietnam War that was made into a Hollywood movie, has died. He was 79.

On Aug. 15, the Taliban took control of Kabul. Images from that day resonated for two Spokane men who have vivid memories of another chaotic evacuation - the fall of Saigon.