Israel launched heavy airstrikes against Syrian government targets on Wednesday, hitting the Syrian Defense Ministry and near the presidential palace in Damascus, killing at least three people and wounding 34. The heavy Israeli attack came despite a US push to reach a...
A drone attack in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday suspended operations at an oil field operated by a US company, marking the latest in a series of attacks in the region. HKN Energy, the US firm operating the Sarsang oil field, reported an explosion at 7:00 am local time,...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Tuesday rejected President Trump's threat to impose a 100% tariff on Russia and its trading partners if the war in Ukraine doesn't come to an end within 50 days. "Certainly, above all, we note that any attempts to put...
Updated on July 15, 2025, at 2:50 pm EST President Trump has encouraged Ukraine to step up strikes deep inside Russia and even asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky if his forces were capable of striking Moscow if the US provided longer-range weapons, the...
US Africa Command has announced that it launched two separate airstrikes in Somalia on Sunday, as the Trump administration is continuing to bomb the country at a record pace, an air war that is receiving virtually no coverage in US media. AFRICOM said that the strikes...
Gaza's Health Ministry said on Tuesday that Israeli attacks killed at least 88 Palestinians and wounded 278 over the previous 24-hour period as relentless US-backed Israeli strikes continue to massacre women and children in the besieged territory. The Health Ministry...
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has approved its version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which would add approximately $32 billion to President Trump's planned military budget of $1.01 trillion. The SASC's NDAA would provide $924.7...
A senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the US must respect Iran's "red lines" if it wants to resume nuclear negotiations and not demand that Tehran abandon uranium enrichment. "They say Iran must abandon uranium...
The leaders of Christian churches in the Holy Land visited the Palestinian Christian village of Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday to show support amid increasing settler attacks. The Council of Patriarchs and Heads of Churches of Jerusalem said in a...
The Pentagon is pressing Japan and Australia to make clear what role they would play if the US goes to war with China over Taiwan, the Financial Times reported over the weekend. The report said that the Pentagon's policy chief, Elbridge Colby, has been pressing the...
