Three American bases in Eastern Syria were targeted with rockets and drones on Friday. One American soldier was injured in the attack. The American bases came under fire after the US carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria. The violence in Syria escalated on Thursday...
Turkey Announces Plans To Approve Finland’s NATO Bid
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Ankara would approve Finland’s NATO application before the country’s May election. Erdoğan made the announcement after meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in Ankara. Finland submitted a joint application...
Iran, Saudi Arabia Will Normalize Ties Under Agreement Brokered by China
Iranian and Saudi state media announced a new agreement that Tehran and Riyadh normalize relations under an agreement brokered by China. The deal between the Middle East rivals comes after American interference in talks. "After several days of intensive...
White House Believed ‘Economic Nuclear Weapon’ Would End Russian War in Ukraine
In the days after the invasion of Ukraine, the White House assessed President Vladimir Putin would end the attack if the US froze over $300 billion owned by the Russian central bank. However, the Washington-led economic war on Moscow has failed to have a major impact...
US, France, and UK Divided on Support for Ukraine
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said London would be the first country to send long-range missiles to Kiev. Meanwhile, statements from top American and French officials indicate support for Ukraine in Washington and Paris may be weakening. At the Munich Security...
Top Republicans Press Biden To Increase Military Aid to Taiwan
Four high-ranking Republicans in Congress sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding more military aid for Taiwan. In their letter, the legislators claimed the White House is not doing enough to respond to the growing threat from Beijing. The four Congressmen who...
US Military Shot Down Unidentified ‘Object’ Near Alaska
The White House claimed the Pentagon downed an unknown object off the coast of Alaska. The Joe Biden administration downplayed the incident claiming the craft was only shot down as a precaution. American officials could not confirm what kind of object the US fighter...
Washington Is Upset Beijing Did Not Take Hotline Call After Balloon Shootdown
The Pentagon claims that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin could not reach his Chinese counterpart shortly after an American fighter jet shot down a craft Beijing says was a weather balloon. A Department official said Chinese officials refusing to take calls on a...
Report: Biden Pushed Peace Plan that Recognized Russia’s Control Over 20% of Ukraine
President Joe Biden dispatched his CIA Director to Kiev with a proposal to end the war in Ukraine last month, according to the Swiss outlet Neue Zürcher Zeitung. The peace plan was offered at the same time the White House was preparing significant escalations in...
Amid Concerns Over a Balloon, US Cancels High-Level Meeting with China
UPDATE: The Pentagon announced on Saturday that a US fighter jet shot down the balloon after it drifted over the Atlantic off the coast of the Carolinas. After the Pentagon claimed there was a Beijing-operated surveillance balloon hovering over American skies,...