Category: Foreign

Sen. Martha McSally, the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat, disclosed during an emotional Senate hearing on Wednesday she was “preyed upon and then raped” in the Air Force by a superior officer. The Arizona Republican, who served 26 years in the Air Force, made the disclosure during a Senate hearing on sexual assault […]

Satellite imagery suggests North Korea may be taking steps to reactivate a partially decommissioned long-range rocket test site on the west coast of the country. Experts say they see evidence that workers are re-building at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. In a matter of days, a rocket engine test stand and a large transfer structure […]

President Donald Trump claimed on Thursday that “100 percent” of the ISIS caliphate – the self-proclaimed Islamic state in Syria — has been defeated. Beginning back in December, citing U.S. success in Syria, Trump has ordered most American troops in Syria withdrawn. The Pentagon would not confirm the president’s assertion about ISIS being defeated, instead […]

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday in the disputed region of Kashmir and captured a pilot, its military said, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals to a level unseen in 20 years. The dramatic escalation came hours after Pakistan said mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier dividing […]

A Coast Guard lieutenant who authorities say espoused white nationalist views and compiled a hit list of Democratic lawmakers and prominent media personalities should be held without bail for at least two weeks while federal prosecutors continue to investigate his activities, a judge ruled Thursday. Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, was arrested Friday in the parking […]

Alabama woman who joined ISIS years ago is now begging for officials to let her back into the U.S. Kurdish forces captured Hoda Muthana, 24, and she is now at a refugee camp. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that an Alabama woman who joined ISIS but now wants to return home with the 18-month-son […]

An American woman who fled her home in Alabama to join ISIS in Syria now admits she made “a big mistake” and wants to return to her family in the US. “We were basically in the time of ignorance…and then became jihadi, if you like to describe it that way,” 24-year-old Hoda Muthana told The […]

Washington — The Department of Justice charged former U.S. Air Force special agent and counterintelligence specialist Monica Witt with espionage, accusing her of defecting to Iran in 2013 and revealing highly-classified U.S. intelligence to the government in Tehran. In a grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday, prosecutors said Witt, 39, provided the Iranian government information about […]

The Trump administration moved Friday to withdraw from a key missile treaty with Russia that has formed a cornerstone of nuclear arms control efforts for decades, accusing President Vladimir Putin’s government of breaching the pact and raising fears of a new Cold War-style arms race with Moscow. President Donald Trump, announcing the U.S. intent to […]

Senate Republicans joined Democrats in offering a direct rebuke Thursday of the administration’s Syria policy, marking the first time during the new Congress that the GOP caucus has formally broken with President Trump. Senators voted 68-23 to end debate on an amendment that warns Trump against drawing down troops in Syria and Afghanistan. Senators still […]

The Army identified the Special Forces soldier killed in Afghanistan Tuesday as a Green Beret from Virginia. Sgt. 1st Class Joshua “Zach” Beale, 32, was shot and killed during combat operations in Central Afghanistan’s Uruzgan Province. He was assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group based at Fort Bragg, N.C. “Joshua was a smart, talented and dedicated member […]