Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has hit out at Americans who prefer a less interventionist foreign policy, smearing them as isolationists who want to see the US "retreat from responsibility." Austin, a former Raytheon board member, made the comments in a speech at...
The Chinese military said Monday that a US warship "illegally" entered waters near Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed reef in the South China Sea that's been the site of frequent confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels. "The United States has deliberately...
The Israeli military said Sunday that its ground operations have expanded to every part of the Gaza Strip and vowed its assault on the south will be just as big as it was in the north. "It will be no less powerful than [the operations in northern Gaza], it will have...
A US airstrike killed at least five Iraqi militia members in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province as the situation in the region is escalating following the resumption of Israel's assault on Gaza. Iraqi security sources told AFP that the strike targeted a site used by the...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said two of its members stationed in Syria as advisors were killed by Israeli airstrikes, The Associated Press reported Saturday, citing the IRGC's website. The Syrian news agency SANA reported that Israeli airstrikes...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Saturday that the alliance must be prepared for bad news about Ukraine and urged support for continuing the proxy war against Russia. "Wars develop in phases," Stoltenberg told the German broadcaster ARD. "We have to...
Ukrainian officials speaking to media outlets on Friday claimed that the CIA-backed Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blew up trains on railways deep inside eastern Russia. An anonymous Ukrainian official told POLITICO that several explosions were set off in Buryatia,...
The Pentagon said Sunday that a US Navy destroyer and several commercial vessels came under attack in the Red Sea, The Associated Press reported. "We’re aware of reports regarding attacks on the USS Carney and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and will provide...
Gen. Herzi Halevi, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff, met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday and said Israel's military operations in Gaza will take "more than a few additional weeks," Axios reported. Blinken's visit to Israel marked his...
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would force the president to permanently freeze $6 billion in Iranian funds that were briefly made available to Tehran as part of a prisoner swap deal. Under the deal, the US and Iran exchanged prisoners, and the US allowed the...
