Category: Foreign

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis emphatically denied a reporter’s suggestion Wednesday that the deployment of thousands of active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border is part of a political stunt ahead of next week’s midterm elections. “We don’t do stunts in this department. Thank you,” Mattis told a reporter who posed the question after a Pentagon meeting […]

BEIRUT – The Islamic State group killed at least 40 U.S.-backed Syrian fighters, captured several alive and regained areas they lost earlier this month in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border in some of the most intense fighting in weeks, a war monitor and an agency linked to IS said Saturday. Members of the U.S.-backed […]

Hundreds of U.S. troops are set to make their way to the southern border to help Homeland Security and the National Guard as a caravan with thousands of migrants pushes north with the goal of crossing into America, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News on Thursday. The official said roughly 800 soldiers will be sent […]

President Trump says he’ll pull the U.S. out of its years-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) with Russia. Trump says Moscow has violated the terms of the weapons pact, which dates to 1987, but he offered no further details on Saturday afternoon. The pact helps protect the security of the U.S. and its allies in […]

An American pilot aboard a Ukrainian Air Force fighter jet was killed when the aircraft crashed Tuesday during a training exercise in Ukraine, officials said. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said two pilots aboard the Su-27 had been killed in the crash, which took place in the Khmelnytskyi region located in the western part of the country about […]

President Trump suggested that Defense Secretary James Mattis could be one of the next administration officials to depart his Cabinet. In an interview airing on “60 Minutes” Sunday, the president said there are “some people” in his administration that he’s “not thrilled with.” Asked by correspondent Lesley Stahl if Mattis is going to be leaving, […]

U.S. troops and their local partner forces have surrounded what has been called the “last pocket of ISIS resistance,” according to military officials involved in the campaign. The final push, known as Operation Roundup, is in its third week. It is occurring in the Middle Euphrates River Valley’s Deir ez-Zor province, close to the Iraq-Syria […]

Two suspicious envelopes at a Department of Defense mail processing center suspected of containing the deadly toxin ricin were mailed to the Pentagon addressed to Secretary of Defense James Mattis and the chief of naval operations, Adm. John Richardson, a source familiar with the incident told NBC News. There were no indications anyone had been […]

Dutch police have arrested seven men accused of planning a major terror attack with suicide vests, assault rifles and car bombs – led by an Iraqi arrested last year for trying to join ISIS in Syria. The suspects were detained after flash raids by heavily armed police in Arnhem, about 62 miles south of Amsterdam, […]

Lawmakers and national security experts are questioning whether Defense Secretary James Mattis can maintain a strong relationship with President Trump in the wake of reports that the White House has looked for a successor to the Pentagon chief, and reporting in Bob Woodward’s book of Mattis’s frustrations with the president. Mattis quickly put out a […]

A major shipping route located between Oman and Iran where nearly one-third of the world’s sea-traded oil passes through daily may become a new flashpoint after a top Iranian Navy general said Monday that the country has taken full control of the Strait of Hormuz. The head of the navy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Gen. […]

President Donald Trump said Friday he has canceled a planned military parade this fall in the nation’s capital because of the “ridiculously high” price tag given by D.C. officials. “The local politicians who run Washington, D.C. (poorly) know a windfall when they see it. When asked to give us a price for holding a great […]