Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the US applied "leverage" to Israel to get it to agree to a Gaza ceasefire deal, marking the first public suggestion from a US official that it was necessary to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to...
Netanyahu Says the Israeli Military Will ‘Demilitarize’ Gaza If Foreign Troops Don’t
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the Israeli military would disarm Hamas and "demilitarize" Gaza if foreign troops don't. Netanyahu told the graduating class of Israeli military cadets that Israel has "more work" to do in Gaza. "At the...
Calls Grow for US To End Arms Sales to the UAE Amid RSF Atrocities in Sudan’s El-Fasher
Calls are growing for the US and other countries to end arms sales to the United Arab Emirates over its support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the militia that has been executing civilians following its takeover of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan's western Darfur...
Pentagon Tells Congress It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing in Latin American Boat Strikes
US War Department officials don't know the identities of the 61 people who have been extra-judicially executed in US military strikes on boats in the waters near Venezuela and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, POLITICO reported on Thursday, citing House Democrats who...
President Trump Says He Had a ‘Truly Great’ Meeting With China’s Xi
President Trump said on Thursday that he had a "truly great" meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, a sign that trade tensions between Washington and Beijing may ease. "I had a truly great meeting with President Xi of China. There is enormous...
Two Syrian Soldiers Killed Near Tishrin Dam, Military Blames Kurdish SDF
Two Syrian soldiers were killed and one was wounded Wednesday near the oft-contested Tishrin Dam in the northern Aleppo Governorate. What actually happened is a matter of contention, however, as the military accused the Kurdish SDF of attacking the soldiers with a...
Russia Says It Will Respond If the US Starts Testing Nuclear Weapons
Russia on Thursday warned that it would respond if the US began testing nuclear weapons, comments that came after President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had ordered the US War Department to start tests. It's unclear from President Trump's post if he...
Lebanese President Orders Army to Confront Israeli Incursions After Deadly Raid
For a country that’s the target of on-again, off-again Israeli invasions, the Lebanese military has historically had little to no involvement in actually fighting them. That may be about to change, however, following a deadly Israeli raid on the Lebanese border town...
US Bombs 15th Alleged Drug Boat in Latin America
The US military has bombed another alleged drug boat in the waters of Latin America, according to a statement from US War Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hegseth said the vessel was targeted in the Eastern Pacific and provided no evidence to back up the claims that it was...
US Bombs Somalia for Three Consecutive Days
The US has launched three more airstrikes in Somalia over three consecutive days, according to press releases from US Africa Command, as the Trump administration continues to bomb the country at a record pace. AFRICOM said that it launched an airstrike on October 26...


