President Biden announced Monday that he will nominate Elliott Abrams to the bipartisan United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, CNN has reported. Abrams is a neoconservative hawk who led the Trump administration's failed Venezuela regime change effort,...
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called for US nuclear weapons to be deployed to Poland in response to Russia sending tactical nukes to Belarus. Morawiecki said Warsaw wants to join NATO's nuclear sharing program, under which US nuclear weapons are...
The White House has expressed support for a major Israeli offensive that was launched against the occupied West Bank city of Jenin early Monday. "We support Israel’s security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist...
Taiwan's purchase of a mine-laying system from the US has sparked protest from opposition politicians as they don't want Taiwan to become an "island of landmines," The South China Morning Post reported on Monday. The Taiwanese Defense Ministry announced last week that...
CIA Director William Burns said in a speech on Saturday that the war in Ukraine provides his spy agency a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to recruit Russians. "Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership, beneath the steady diet...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reaffirmed his position that the war in Ukraine will not end until Ukrainian forces take Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014. "We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And while Crimea is under the Russian...
The Biden administration last week approved two potential arms deals for Taiwan worth $440 million amid heightened tensions between the US and China. According to the Pentagon's Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA), one deal is for 30mm ammunition and...
US nuclear-capable B-52 bombers flew to the Korean Peninsula on Friday in the latest US provocation against North Korea. The South Korean Defense Ministry and the US military said the bombers participated in exercises and were joined by US and South Korean fighter...
Even though the US and its NATO allies have provided a massive amount of arms to Ukraine, the country's commander-in-chief has said more is needed for Ukrainian forces to advance more rapidly in their counteroffensive. In an interview with The Washington Post...
The US is moving closer to sending widely-banned cluster bombs to Ukraine as the Biden administration is pushing Congress to put aside concerns about the harm the munitions cause to civilians, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The report said senior Biden...
