The US Treasury Department has relaxed its sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector, allowing American companies to engage in certain transactions with the country’s state-owned energy firm. In a general license issued on Wednesday, the Treasury outlined broad exemptions...
Trump Lifts Jones Act for 60 Days in Effort to Lower Oil Price
President Donald Trump has issued a waiver that suspends the enforcement of the Jones Act for 60 days. The Jones Act is a protectionist law that was meant to bolster the domestic shipbuilding industry by forbidding foreign ships from transporting goods between US...
DNI Gabbard Tells Congress Iran Was Not Rebuilding Its Nuclear Program
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, where she faced several questions about President Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Gabbard told the committee that after two weeks of Israeli and US...
Ukraine Sends 200 Drone Experts to the Middle East to Aid War Against Iran
Volodymyr Zelensky said that he has sent hundreds of anti-drone experts to help the US take down Iranian UAVs. A statement posted by the Ukrainian President’s Office said, “There are currently 201 Ukrainians in the Middle East and the Gulf region, with another 34...
Iran Has Destroyed 10 US Radars, Hit Bases Dozens of Times
Iran has inflicted a heavy toll on the network of American radars across the Middle East. Advanced radar systems are crucial for identifying and shooting down missiles and drones. Imagery reviewed by ABC News shows that at least 10 American radars in the Middle East...
Top DoD Official Says Pentagon Planning to Intensify Operations in Latin America
A high-level defense official told a House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that the continuing operations against Latin American drug cartels were “just the beginning”, and left open the possibility of deploying ground forces. The official, acting assistant...
Heavy Fighting Expands Across Southern Lebanon, Israel to Attack Bridges Over Litani River
Earlier this week, Israel announced that they’d begun their ground invasion of southern Lebanon. Early fighting was reported around the city of Khiam. That just continues to worsen, according to reports, and is starting to spread to other areas of the border region....
Trump Says NATO ‘Making a Very Foolish Mistake’ for Not Joining War Against Iran
President Trump on Tuesday criticized the US's NATO allies, saying they were "making a very foolish mistake" for not entering the US-Israeli war against Iran, as his calls for other countries to send warships to open the Strait of Hormuz have been rejected. "NATO is...
US Launches Two More Airstrikes in Somalia
The US has launched two more airstrikes in Somalia, according to press releases from US Africa Command, as the Trump administration is keeping up the bombing campaign in the country amid the US-Israeli war against Iran. AFRICOM said that one strike was launched on...
Report: US Presses Syria to Invade Lebanon to Fight Hezbollah
The US-Israeli war against Iran is already expanding into Lebanon with an Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon, but Reuters is now reporting that the Trump Administration is keen to drag Syria into the conflict as well, encouraging its Islamist government to...


