Members of the newly formed House committee on China are in talks about sending a delegation to Taiwan, knowing that it will "infuriate" Beijing and likely raise military tensions in the region. The House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United...
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Sunday that it launched an airstrike against al-Shabaab in Somalia on February 10, the first known US airstrike in the country this month. The command claimed the strike killed 12 al-Shabaab fighters and said it "assessed" no civilians...
The US military shot down another flying object on Sunday over Lake Huron in Michigan, Canada's defense minister announced. Canadian Defence Minister Anita Anand said the object was engaged by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the command...
The US and Papua New Guinea just wrapped up talks on signing a military agreement as the Biden administration is looking to expand military ties in the Asia Pacific as part of its strategy against China. "The United States and Papua New Guinea held negotiations on...
The Pentagon is looking to restart special operations programs that it was conducting inside Ukraine before Russia invaded last year, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The programs, known as surrogate operations, involve employing Ukrainian operatives to track...
The US Navy and Marines Corps are conducting drills in the South China Sea amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing over the Chinese balloon incident. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet said in a statement that the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its strike...
British weapons could soon be manufactured in Ukraine under a plan that would significantly boost cooperation between Kyiv and NATO and further raise tensions with Moscow, The Telegraph reported on Saturday. The report said UK defense industry executives are...
The US has issued a 180-day exemption for its sanctions on Syria that applies to "all transactions related to earthquake relief efforts," according to the US Treasury Department. The exemption was announced on Thursday night and came days after a devastating...
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...
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...
