A few weeks after President Trump declared on Truth Social that he wants a $1.5 trillion military budget, Republican leaders in Congress are working on making his dream of increasing military spending by about 50% a reality. The 2026 military budget marked the first...
US Southern Command announced on February 5 that its forces bombed another alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, marking the second known US strike against vessels in the waters of Latin America this year. SOUTHCOM claimed that the strike killed two...
US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, visited the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln as it was operating in the Arabian Sea on Saturday after meeting with Iranian officials in Oman the day before. Trump deployed the US...
An international nuclear weapons testing monitor said on Friday that there was no evidence China conducted a nuclear test on June 22, 2020, after a US official accused Beijing of secretly conducting a test that day. "China has conducted nuclear explosive tests,...
Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, according to reports from the Strip, as the IDF continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday as Israel is pushing for a new war with Iran following talks between US and Iranian officials in Oman on Friday. Axios reported that Netanyahu was initially set to...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday that the Trump administration's "maximum pressure campaign" against Iran was responsible for collapsing the country's economy and sparking the protests and unrest that began at the end...
The day before US and Iranian officials are set to hold talks in Oman, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his security cabinet and told his top officials that certain "conditions" are in place that may lead to the downfall of the Iranian...
Arms control experts issued a statement on Thursday warning of risks to global security due to the expiration of New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the US and Russia, without a replacement. "We express our profound concern that, following the...
President Trump has said that the US and Russia should negotiate a new nuclear arms control treaty instead of extending New START, the last piece of nuclear arms control between the two powers, which expired on Thursday. "Rather than extend 'NEW START' (A badly...
