A White House National Security Council official told The National that the Biden administration was "encouraged" by a meeting between Syrian and other Arab foreign ministers that took place in Amman on Monday. The comments mark a significant shift in rhetoric from...
President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order expanding his authorities to impose sanctions on Sudan over the conflict that broke out between rival generals on April 15. Forces loyal to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s army chief and de facto leader, have been...
A US MQ-9 Reaper drone was fired at by a Russian SA-22 Pantsir air defense system in Syria back in November, a US official told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The incident was first revealed by one of the Pentagon documents allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira. The US...
According to a report from The New Arab, the leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has slammed Saudi Arabia for its normalization deal with Iran. In a video released earlier this week, AQAP head Khalid Batarfi said Riyadh was conceding...
NATO is planning to open a liaison office in Japan next year, the alliance's first in Asia, Nikkei Asia reported Wednesday. In recent years, NATO has turned its gaze toward the Asia Pacific region and named China a "systemic challenge" in its 2022 Strategic Concept....
Russia on Thursday said the US was behind the drone attack that targeted the Kremlin, which Moscow said was an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin's life. "We know very well that the decisions to carry out such actions, such terrorist attacks, are made not in...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Ukraine's military is capable of launching a counteroffensive and regaining territory from Russia despite what Pentagon documents leaked on Discord have revealed. One of the leaked documents allegedly released by...
Iranian forces seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, marking the second such incident within a week. According to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, the ship, the Niovi, was seized after leaving Dubai and heading towards Fujairah, another...
US Central Command said Wednesday that it launched an airstrike in northwest Syria that killed an al-Qaeda leader but did not name the target or release other details of the strike, and local reports suggest a civilian was killed. "At 11:42 a.m. local time on May 3rd,...
The State Department refused to acknowledge on Wednesday, which marked World Press Freedom Day, that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a journalist. State Department spokesman Vedant Patel was asked by AP reporter Matt Lee if he considers Assange to be a journalist....
