Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine will hold a press conference Tuesday morning as the U.S. military says it fired on multiple Iranian small gunboats during operations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

A scheduled press briefing set to take place at 8 a.m. on Tuesday at the Pentagon has been canceled. The briefing, which was to be conducted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth alongside Joint

A Pentagon press briefing was scheduled for Tuesday as reports of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz test a tenuous ceasefire. Here's the latest. (AP Photo)

Gen. Dan Caine characterized the hostile actions as "all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point."

Pentagon officials will give remarks Tuesday morning on President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget request — which includes $1.5 trillion in defense spending. The request includes $1.1

The Pentagon blocked its own military news publication, Stars and Stripes, from attending Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s press conference on Thursday. “Stars and Stripes was not approved by the Pentagon to attend this press conference. I will be ...

US ​Defence ​Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Pentagon press conference on Tuesday ⁠that ‌the United States ⁠aimed to protect ​shipping from ‌Iranian aggression ‌in the ​Strait ​of ​Hormuz and that its