Stephen Losey

Heather Wilson, a former representative from New Mexico and Air Force Academy graduate, was sworn in as the 24th secretary of the Air Force Tuesday.

The Air Force, other military services, and coalition allies in March released the most weapons against the Islamic State of the war so far.

Coalition aircraft on Tuesday bombed an allied Syrian Democratic Forces position it mistakenly thought was an Islamic State fighting position and killed 18 personnel, U.S. Central Command said Thursday.

Officials in Maryland say they’re investigating a military aircraft down in the Washington suburbs.

During his more than two decades in the Air Force, Col. Jack Fischer has gone from the classrooms of the Air Force Academy to the skies above Iraq and Afghanistan in an F-15 and to the cockpit of an F-22 as a test pilot.

The last three weeks of airstrikes in Mosul have been “the most kinetic three weeks in the campaign in Iraq” against the Islamic State, the top Air Force general in Iraq said Thursday.

The Air Force is considering retiring its F-15 C and D fighter aircraft and replacing them with F-16s.

Aircraft from the Air Force, other branches of the U.S. military, and coalition nations released more than 7,000 weapons against the Islamic State in January and February — the most of any two-month stretch since Operation Inherent Resolve began more than 2 1/2 years ago.

Airmen at the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, got an unexpected Valentine’s Day present on Tuesday: A bright red computer alert mistakenly warning them of an incoming missile.