Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey who also serves as an envoy to Syria, wrote on X on Tuesday that the participation of the new Syrian government -- led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda -- in a US-led anti-ISIS coalition meeting marks a "new...
The Pentagon is sending 200 troops to Nigeria in the coming weeks to train the country's military to fight Islamist militants, US officials told media outlets on Tuesday, as President Trump continues to deepen US involvement in the country. A US official told The New...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday departed Israel for the US, where he will meet with President Trump to discuss possible military options against Iran, according to Israeli sources speaking to CNN. One Israeli source told the outlet that talks...
President Trump said on Tuesday that he may deploy a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East to prepare for a potential attack on Iran. "Either we will make a deal, or we will have to do something very tough like last time," Trump told Axios reporter...
US Africa Command on Tuesday announced that its forces launched an airstrike in Somalia a day earlier that targeted al-Shabaab about 30 miles to the northeast of Kismayo, a port city in the southern Lower Juba province. AFRICOM offered no other details of the bombing,...
Vice President JD Vance's X account posted a tweet on Tuesday mentioning the Armenian genocide and quickly deleted it as the Trump administration has reversed the Biden administration's policy of recognizing the Ottoman Empire's systematic mass killing of Armenian...
The US military announced on Monday that its forces blew up another boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, marking the third US strike this year against small vessels allegedly running drugs in the waters of Latin America. US Southern Command said the attack killed two...
At least five Palestinians were killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza on Tuesday, medical sources told Reuters, as the IDF's constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal continue. The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that three Palestinians were killed in...
US Africa Command announced on Monday that its forces launched another airstrike in Somalia as the Trump administration continues bombing the country at a record pace. AFRICOM said in a press release that the strike occurred on February 3 and targeted the ISIS...
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said in an interview published on Monday that the US no longer wants to implement a Ukraine peace deal that it previously proposed, the latest sign that there's little chance the grinding war will come to an end anytime soon. Lavrov...
