President Biden's decision to bomb Yemen has disrupted shipping in the region as several major tanker companies halted transits through the Red Sea after the US and British airstrikes against the Houthis. While container shipping had been disrupted by Houthi attacks...
US and British airstrikes launched across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen did not significantly impact the Houthis' ability to launch attacks in the Red Sea, US officials have acknowledged to The New York Times. The Pentagon said the first wave of strikes launched...
On Saturday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he told Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the brutal campaign in Gaza that has killed nearly 24,000 Palestinians is not only an Israeli war but also an American one. "This is not just our war – it is...
Federal employees from nearly two dozen US government agencies will walk off their jobs on Tuesday in protest of President Biden's full-throated support for Israel's brutal assault on Gaza, Al-Monitor reported on Friday. The Biden administration has faced significant...
Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen who was jailed in Ukraine for his political views, has died in a Ukrainian prison, the State Department confirmed on Saturday. Lira died on January 11 after a battle with pneumonia that he said was initially ignored by Ukrainian...
The US and the UK on Thursday night launched strikes against more than a dozen sites in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, where the majority of Yemenis live, in a move that risks escalating the situation in the Middle East into a major regional war. A US official told...
Update: The US and Britain have begun bombing dozens of sites in Yemen using Tomahawk missiles launched from warships and airstrikes from fighter jets, US officials have told The Associated Press. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has authorized joint airstrikes with...
More than $1 billion in weapons that were shipped to Ukraine have not been properly tracked by the Pentagon, a report from the Defense Department's inspector general has found. The report examined $1.699 billion in weapons sent to Ukraine that are subject to enhanced...
The White House has thrown its support behind legislation that's been introduced in Congress that would allow the use of frozen Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine, Bloomberg reported. About $300 billion in Russian central bank assets was frozen by the US and...
Iran seized an American tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday in retaliation for the US previously seizing the same tanker and stealing a shipment of Iranian oil that it was carrying. In April 2023, the US forced the tanker, formerly named Suez Rajan, to sail to...
