The gunman who slaughtered 26 people at a Texas church was able to buy weapons because the US Air Force failed to report his domestic violence conviction to the federal database that is used to conduct background checks on would-be gun purchasers, authorities said.

British IS recruiter Sally-Anne Jones, dubbed the White Widow, is understood to have been killed in a US drone strike.

Nonproliferation expert Bruce G Blair tells Tobin Harshaw of the danger of a ‘nuclear monarch’

North Korea has criticised a practice bombing run on the Korean peninsula by two US B-1B bombers as a dangerous move, raising the risk of nuclear war.

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At least 730 US military flights came through Shannon Airport last year, anti-war campaigners have claimed.

Security at the Olympics is to be stepped up after bullets were believed to have been fired at a media bus.

A journalist on board a Rio 2016 media transport bus that had two windows smashed while it was travelling from a venue to the Olympic park has said the damage was caused by gunfire.

All seven crew members have made it out safely after their B-52 bomber crashed on the island of Guam shortly after take-off, the US air force said.

Two people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide at an Air Force base in Texas, police have said.

A British grandfather who helped subdue a gunman armed with an AK-47 on a train from Amsterdam to Paris is to be presented with France’s top honour for bravery.

The US airman who was stabbed in the neck as he disarmed a terrorist with a Kalashnikov on a French passenger train has left hospital.

An F-16 fighter jet has smashed into a small plane over the US state of South Carolina, killing two and scattering plane parts and debris over a wide area.

An F-16 fighter jet and a small plane have collided in midair over South Carolina, raining down plane parts and debris.

IS fighters have frightened parents and pundits around the world with their highly effective use of social media to spread propaganda.

Nato’s chief said that Russia had built up forces on the border with Ukraine and sent more military hardware into eastern Ukraine, enabling pro-Russia separatists to launch attacks with little warning if they chose.

In the run-up to celebrating 100 years as an independent country, there will be many debates about how to mark the progress achieved by our Republic, writes Joe Gill.

Talks on a Ukraine peace initiative will continue with a telephone call tomorrow between Russian president Vladimir Putin and his counterpart in Kiev to discuss a proposal to end the fighting.

The leaders of Germany and France met Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko in a hastily arranged mission to bring an end to the accelerated fighting in the east of the country.

A Greek F-16 fighter jet has crashed into other planes on the ground during Nato training in Spain, killing at least 10 people, Spain’s Defence Ministry said.

Mark Cornell became legally blind 20 years ago after serving in the US Air Force for 18 years.

The body of an F-16 fighter jet pilot has been found after the aircraft crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.

A pilot with the US Air Force (USAF) has escaped serious injury after ejecting as his fighter jet came down in a field in England.

A powerful typhoon is heading toward Tokyo after lashing southern Japan, where it killed at least one US airman on Okinawa island and left two others missing.

The GAA must have known they were making themselves hostages to fortune when they dubbed their American football showcase as the ‘Croke Park Classic’, but Penn State and the University of Central Florida obliged with a game that lived up to its billing.

John Kerry flew into Israel’s main airport today despite a US ban in a sign of his determination to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip – despite little evidence of progress in negotiations.

If Ukrainian rebels shot down the Malaysian jetliner, killing 298 people, it may have been because they didn’t have the right systems in place to distinguish between military and civilian aircraft, experts said at the weekend.

A nurse who allegedly arranged to meet a 14-year-old girl he planned to behead with an axe and eat started having fantasies about cannibalism at the age of six, a court has heard.

A nurse in England who allegedly arranged to meet a 14-year-old girl he planned to behead with an axe and eat started having fantasies about cannibalism at the age of six, a court has heard.

Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies plans to sue the US Air Force, saying it should be allowed to compete in a satellite-launch market monopolised by the two biggest defence contractors.

Top diplomats have agreed to take immediate steps toward calming tensions in Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister says.

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Nato’s top military commander said Russia had a large force on Ukraine’s eastern border and that he was worried it could pose a threat to Moldova’s separatist Transdniestria region.

The US Navy says a military helicopter has crashed off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States.

An investigation has begun after four crew members died when a US military helicopter crashed in Norfolk on a training mission.

An American air force general was sacked from his post for “inappropriate behaviour” while in Russia, it has emerged.

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Gardaí cannot inspect aircraft that land here if they are from a foreign state that enjoys sovereign immunity, Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said.

The US Air Force and Boeing have completed the first ever unmanned flight of a retired F-16 fighter jet.

Suspected US drone strikes have killed seven al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa