The firing follows an initial assessment by the agency in June indicating strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities had more limited effect than President Trump said.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of damage to Iranian nuclear sites from US strikes angered President Donald Trump, according to two people familiar with the decision and a White House official.

The head of the Pentagon's intelligence agency has been fired, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, a move the top Democratic lawmaker on the Senate intelligence committee slammed as the latest example of politicizing intelligence by President Donald Trump's administration.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington be armed.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Trump's law enforcement crackdown will be armed, the Pentagon said.

The order is a reversal for the Army, which had said on Aug. 14 that weapons would be available but “remain in the armory” and that troops wouldn’t make arrests