For locals in southern New Mexico and western Texas, the entrance of a new neighbor – the U.S. military – is stirring up a mixture of hope, distrust, and uncertainty.

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — The swift expansion of the Trump administration’s new “national defense areas” on the southern border — enabling U.S. troops to detain migrants so that prosecutors can ...

President Trump transferred control of a strip of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border to the Department of Defense. This action allows the military greater authority in border enforcement ...

Army could control strip of US-Mexico border as base where migrants could be detained. Apr 14, 2025, 3:00 PM. Share . BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The plan would put a strip along the southern border under Pentagon control, allowing the military to detain migrants for trespassing on a military base until Border Patrol agents could arrest them.

A 60-foot wide strip of land along three southwestern border states will be placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. military to help deter illegal immigration, the White House said Friday.

Israel has doubled its foothold in the Gaza Strip, with its military now controlling more than 50% of the enclave since restarting the war against Hamas last month.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday that Israel is essentially blocking access to water in the Gaza Strip by cutting off electricity and fuel, calling for humanitarian aid to be ...

Dozens of trucks carrying aid for Gaza crossed the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday into the Strip. More for You. Thom Tillis says he will retire following Trump attacks ...

Dozens of Gaza Strip residents were documented today (Sunday) wandering just a few hundred meters from the border fence opposite Kibbutz Nir Oz in the Gaza Strip enclave. The residents roamed ...

Across the southern Rio Grande Valley, incomplete border wall segments isolate residents, including Arturo Muñoz, and the Chimney Park neighborhood on the strip of land between the barrier and ...

A view of a tunnel which the military says Hamas militants used in the southern Gaza Strip, about a 100 meters from the Philadelphi Corridor along the border with Egypt, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024.