US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Saturday declined to comment on whether the US was planning to bomb Venezuela amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean and frequent strikes on alleged drug boats in the waters of Latin America. "Appreciate the question,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz continue to threaten further escalation of attacks on southern Lebanon, even as they’ve already substantially increased the number of strikes they carry out in violation of the ceasefire there....
Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the US applied "leverage" to Israel to get it to agree to a Gaza ceasefire deal, marking the first public suggestion from a US official that it was necessary to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the Israeli military would disarm Hamas and "demilitarize" Gaza if foreign troops don't. Netanyahu told the graduating class of Israeli military cadets that Israel has "more work" to do in Gaza. "At the...
Calls are growing for the US and other countries to end arms sales to the United Arab Emirates over its support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the militia that has been executing civilians following its takeover of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan's western Darfur...
US War Department officials don't know the identities of the 61 people who have been extra-judicially executed in US military strikes on boats in the waters near Venezuela and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, POLITICO reported on Thursday, citing House Democrats who...
President Trump said on Thursday that he had a "truly great" meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, a sign that trade tensions between Washington and Beijing may ease. "I had a truly great meeting with President Xi of China. There is enormous...
Two Syrian soldiers were killed and one was wounded Wednesday near the oft-contested Tishrin Dam in the northern Aleppo Governorate. What actually happened is a matter of contention, however, as the military accused the Kurdish SDF of attacking the soldiers with a...
Russia on Thursday warned that it would respond if the US began testing nuclear weapons, comments that came after President Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had ordered the US War Department to start tests. It's unclear from President Trump's post if he...
For a country that’s the target of on-again, off-again Israeli invasions, the Lebanese military has historically had little to no involvement in actually fighting them. That may be about to change, however, following a deadly Israeli raid on the Lebanese border town...
