The Syrian Interior Ministry said that shooter in the deadly attack in Palmyra was a "member of the Syrian security forces who was influence by extremist ideology."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, unable to last an entire interview without mentioning President Donald Trump, took some time during his appearance at the Army-Navy Game on Saturday to deliver a message from Trump to the troops watching at home.

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing earlier this year in June, Senator Angus King (I-ME) confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on renaming military bases after Confederate traitors in honor of slavery.

President Trump is attending the annual Army-Navy game, minutes after making comments on the attack that killed three Americans including two US troops in Syria.

Pete Hegseth was on Fox News in 2016 when he called Trump an 'armchair tough guy.' Trump said the military would follow his illegal orders. See comments

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has directed the Pentagon to embark on the largest unmanned systems buildup in U.S. history — an effort that could deliver more than 300,000 small drones over the next several years.

Critics have questioned the meaning of Hegseth's tattoos ever since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his nomination.

Hegseth said he’d stop drinking if confirmed. A former alcoholic on why the first year of sobriety is so hard and how Grant got clean.