Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of combat physical standards. Women who've served in combat jobs say ten years of experience has proven they're up to the task.

Another woman who is suing, Captain Alexandra Zoe Bedell — who was deployed twice to Afghanistan — left active duty last year in part, she says, because of the combat-exclusion policy.

On women in combat Hegseth's opposition — stated in his book and interviews — was simple and direct before his nomination on Nov. 12.

This We’ll Defend: Soldier fought to give women in Afghanistan ‘unprecedented’ voice HNN’s series of special reports to commemorate the U.S. Army’s 250th birthday continues with a ...

We still are. Women in combat break that script, and the emotional cost is sharper than most people are ready to face. The truth that nobody likes to say out loud is that combat is physics, not ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a review of combat fitness standards to ensure gender neutrality on Sunday, even though fitness tests for combat roles are already gender neutral. Hegseth ...

Recent months have seen several reports of funding cuts and visa withdrawals leaving Afghan women at risk of deportation to Afghanistan - a country where women and ...

With many care centers shuttered and supplies dwindling, many pregnant women in rural Afghanistan fear they or their babies ...

During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...

In Afghanistan, strict Taliban regulations and deeply-rooted patriarchal traditions make it nearly impossible for women to ...