U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte briefed reporters on Thursday following a NATO ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s public statements on negotiations to try to end the war in Ukraine and on NATO are ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rejected criticism on Thursday of Washington's negotiating strategy with Russia on the ...

A day after telegraphing potential concessions to Russia, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reconsidered his comment that it's ...

President Donald Trump started peace negotiations over Ukraine with dramatic flair. Although he had been expected to send his ...

He’s walking back comments Thursday, a day after he said NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and suggested Kyiv ...

Everything is on the table,” the Defense secretary said with no mention of concessions he demanded the day before.

Reading the riot act to U.S. allies, Hegseth said that Ukraine will not get all its territory back from Russia and will not ...

Speaking in Brussels at a regular meeting of the Western contact group coordinating arms deliveries to Kiev, Pete Hegseth emphasized that returning to Ukraine’s 2014 borders was unrealistic ...

Hegseth also said Wednesday that Ukraine returning to its prewar borders—before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014—would be ...

In his first big turn on the world stage, the defense secretary has already been forced to offer a major walk-back.