U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said President Donald Trump supported the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal, after Australia ...

US President Donald Trump is supportive of its multi-decade submarine deal with Australia, his defence secretary has said ...

Australia has made its first $500 million payment to the United States under the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal ahead of a ...

There had been uncertainty about the future of the AUKUS security partnership under a second Trump administration, but the US ...

The AUKUS agreement aims to increase US, UK and Australian submarine capability in the Indo Pacific The current plan will ...

Defence Minister Richard Marles has become the first foreign counterpart to be hosted by the new US Secretary of Defence ...

Canberra has sent the first down payment of a total $4.7 billion to prop up US shipbuilding efforts ahead of the planned ...

US President Donald Trump has flagged his support for AUKUS after the Australian government paid the US $798m as part of the deal.

Hegseth said Trump was "supportive" of the $3 Billion deal in a meeting with Australia's Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles at the Pentagon on Friday (Local time). (AP) It's the ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Donald Trump is "supportive" of the AUKUS alliance, after Australia sent a $US500 ...

Under AUKUS, Australia will pay the United States $3 billion to boost the capacity of the U.S. submarine industry, and ...