Defense Department civilian employees and contractors abroad can no longer get rape test kits done at military medical facilities.

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the Trump administration has abruptly revoked the visas of all South Sudanese, saying the country’s government has failed to accept the return of its citizens “in a timely manner.”

The commanders of U.S. troops in Europe and Africa expressed trepidation Thursday about the Pentagon’s reported plans to consolidate commands and give up America’s role as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

Africa’s most lethal terrorist organization is expected to gain strength in Somalia, raising the security threat through a Middle East choke point for commercial shipping, a new report cautions.

A series of airstrikes this week killed multiple Islamic militants in Somalia. According to U.S. Africa Command, the strikes, which were in coordination with the Somali government, hit ISIS-Somalia operatives.

The recapture of the palace is unlikely to mean an immediate end to the war, as the RSF still controls territory in other parts of the country, but it is a significant development.

U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Stuttgart, Germany.

China’s growing network of ports in Africa could serve as a precursor to the creation of more military bases, according to a new report by a Pentagon-affiliated think tank.

The US has delegated its representation at a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg next week to a locally based official after Secretary of State Marco Rubio snubbed the event.

The Pentagon chief, on his first international trip in his new job, met with rank-and-file troops and two combatant commanders for high-level briefings on threats ranging from militants in Africa to Russia’s war in Ukraine.