Last week, Taiwan's Defense Ministry announced it had signed a deal with the US under which the US will send military personnel to the island for a naval training program. The US has a history of sending personnel to train Taiwanese forces, but the training programs...
On Wednesday, Yemen's Houthis released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a commercial ship the Yemeni group seized in November 2023 as part of its response to Israel's onslaught in Gaza. Yemen's Al Masirah TV reported that the Houthis released the crew to Oman in...
President Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, said Wednesday that it was "good" that Hamas was open to talks with the United States. Witkoff was asked in an interview with Fox News about comments from Mousa Abu Marzouk, a Hamas official based in Qatar. "We’re...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that US troops must be included in a Western peacekeeping force that he wants deployed to Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal with Russia. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Zelensky called...
The Trump administration has appointed a new Middle East policy chief in the Pentagon who believes the US should scale down its military presence in the region. Michael DiMino, a former CIA analyst, was sworn in on Monday as the deputy assistant secretary of defense...
Gaza's Health Ministry said Wednesday that hospitals received another 54 bodies of people killed by Israel's onslaught as Palestinians continue to dig remains out of the rubble. The Health Ministry said that 53 of the bodies came out of the rubble, while one...
On Wednesday, President Trump called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a deal to end the war in Ukraine and threatened that if it doesn't come to an end, he will place additional tariffs and sanctions on Russian goods. "I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I...
President Trump has re-listed Cuba as a "state sponsor of terrorism" in one of the first foreign policy moves of his new administration. The move was included in an executive order Trump signed on Monday that rescinded 78 of President Biden's executive actions. Biden...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was sworn in on Tuesday, has said the war in Ukraine needs to end and that the new Trump administration would work to bring it to a close, although it's still unclear how that will happen. On the campaign trail, President Trump...
On Monday night, President Trump said he was "not confident" that the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas would hold through all three phases. When asked by a reporter if he thinks the deal will last, Trump said, "I'm not confident. It’s not our war. It is...
