Germany has unveiled plans to introduce voluntary military service. From January 2026, all 18-year-old men will be required to complete a questionnaire asking if they are interested and willing to ...

Two female soldiers, K and Y – who serve in this capacity – are among the women making a significant impact on the front lines. In a world where combat roles in the military are still largely ...

In the drought-prone mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, indigenous women are drawing on ancestral knowledge to combat water scarcity and sustain their communities. As detailed in a story by the BBC, ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

The Pentagon made official what already has been happening by default: women in uniform are moving closer to the front lines. “Women are contributing in unprecedented ways to the military’s mission,” ...

Many veterans, service members and officials in the Defense Department worry that decades of progress could be unraveled in a matter of months if Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for ...

The military announced gender-neutral standards for combat roles in 2016. In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles has reignited fears about his approach to women in the ...

WASHINGTON − At Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, senators picked relentlessly at his widely espoused – then quickly reversed – view that women don't belong in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for women in combat roles, a move he said will make the military more lethal, but that women servicemembers and ...