The Defense secretary's absence marks the first time in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group’s history that a Pentagon chief ...

The meeting comes as the Ukraine war intensifies after a resoundingly successful attack on Russian airfields by Ukrainian ...

In a first for the US, the Pentagon chief will not attend a meeting of the group orchestrating military support to Ukraine, a ...

Hegseth's office cited scheduling concerns as the reason for his absence from the meeting, though the defense secretary will be in Brussels on Thursday for a different NATO meeting. "Secretary ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will miss a meeting of 50 defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels to ...

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth will not attend a NATO-led meeting of more than 50 defence ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, an absence that will be seen as another sign of Washington pulling ...