The decision is controversial as the High Court of Justice has pressed the military to open more, not fewer, tracks for women in combat. IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir announced on Thursday ...

Two female soldiers, K and Y – who serve in this capacity – are among the women making a significant impact on the front lines. In a world where combat roles in the military are still largely ...

Heather Sterling stepped into the ring at the Texas Game Warden Training Center, ready to face an ambush by instructors ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

During 2.5-year pilot program, female soldiers joined hundreds of engineering operations in Gaza and northern front, army ...

The question isn’t should women be in combat — it’s how. As a male combat veteran of two tours in Iraq with infantry units, the view from here is that women should have their own, separate, combat ...

1 of 12 — Young women learn how to charge an enemy with rifles and bayonets at their high school in Tokyo, Feb. 18, 1937. Japan trained women and girls for auxiliary army units. 2 of 12 — Jewish women ...

The first three female rangers in 2015, from left: Capt. Kristen Griest, Maj. Lisa Jaster and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver. (Photo by Capt. Olivia Cobiskey-Haftmann/Office of the Secretary of Defense Public ...

When I heard Leon Panetta’s announcement about lifting the combat restrictions on women in the military, I immediately thought of former Army National Guard Sergeant Paigh Bumgarner. Bumgarner had ...

From drone units to evacuations, Ukrainian women are filling critical frontline and volunteer roles as the war grinds on.

KHARKIV, Ukraine -- When Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago, a 26-year-old soldier known as Monka didn’t see a combat role she could do. But that changed as technology reshaped ...