Mattis, 71, served in the Marine Corps for 44 years at every level of command until he retired as the head of U.S. Central Command in 2013. The retired four-star general later served as President ...

The Iranian-supplied rockets were raining down on Gen. James N. Mattis’s troops throughout the spring and summer of 2011 with greater and greater intensity. Six American soldiers were killed by ...

Donald Trump was elected president with no help or support from then-retired Gen. Jim Mattis, who had taken off his uniform and his four stars for the last time in 2013. Thanks to the ...

The retired general is a contender to be defense secretary. — -- President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday night that he will "appoint" retired Marine Gen. James "Mad Dog" Mattis to be ...

On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the start of 2019, joined other former secretaries of defense to call on Congress to hold immediate hearings to assess the ...

I spotted the general seated across the aisle with other illustrious guests and took a photo from a respectful distance. And then, the moment I had been hoping for since May 6 occurred ...

By Phil Stewart, Andrew Gray, Idrees Ali and Sabine Siebold WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -President Donald Trump will ...

Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis has finally gotten married after decades of putting his devotion to the Marine Corps and the rest of the U.S. military above his personal life. And he did it in ...

Soon after his country began bombing Yemen in 2015, the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates confidentially reached out to an old friend: retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis. Sheikh Mohamed bin ...

Gen. James Mattis has not endorsed a candidate in the November presidential election. But he agrees with the warnings in Bob Woodward’s new book about the dangers of a second Trump presidency ...