Category: Foreign

A U.S. service member has been killed and four others injured in Somalia, according to multiple reports. The Special Operations soldiers came under attack Friday at a small outpost near the town of Jamaame in southwest Somalia, according to the reports citing unnamed Defense Department officials. A spokesman for U.S. Africa Command (Africom) did not immediately […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The Taliban’s top military council was meeting Thursday to decide whether to accept Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s cease-fire offer, two senior commanders told NBC News. Ghani announced earlier that government troops would observe a cease-fire beginning on 27 Ramadan, or June 12 on the Western calendar, and last through the Eid al-Fitr […]

Defense Secretary James Mattis on Sunday said the roughly 28,000 U.S. troops based in South Korea are “not going anywhere.” “It’s not even a subject of the discussions,” Mattis told reporters aboard his plane while returning to Washington from the Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore. Mattis added that other countries, including Canada, “are even putting people […]

JERUSALEM — Israeli jets on Tuesday bombed targets in the Gaza Strip hours after militants from the territory fired more than 25 mortar shells toward communities in southern Israel in what appeared to be the largest single barrage since the 2014 war. The Israeli military said no one was hurt and that most of the […]

Gina Haspel was confirmed Thursday as CIA director, becoming the first woman to lead the agency and overcoming initial Democratic opposition regarding her role in post-9/11 interrogation and detention practices. The Senate voted 54-45 to confirm President Trump’s nominee, with six Democrats supporting and two Republicans defecting. Haspel, whose nomination was endorsed by the Senate […]

At least 52 Palestinians in Gaza have been shot dead by Israeli troops after bloody clashes erupted on the border, Palestinian officials say. The violence comes before the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem, which has infuriated Palestinians. They see it as clear US backing for Israeli rule over the whole city, whose eastern […]

BAGHDAD, Iraq –  Iraqi forces in coordination with U.S.-backed Syrian forces have captured five senior Islamic State group (ISIS) leaders, the U.S.-led coalition said Thursday in a statement. The arrest was a “significant blow to Daesh,” coalition spokesman Army Col. Ryan Dillon said, using the Arabic acronym for the extremist group. A Pentagon spokesman, Marine […]

Israel’s unprecedented Thursday counter-strike on Iranian infrastructure in Syria, following the Islamic Republic’s own brazen rocket attack on Israeli military positions, brought the war-making capabilities of both Middle Eastern countries into stark relief as already simmering tensions begin to reach a boil. The pre-dawn barrage flattened Iranian military compounds, intelligence facilities and munition warehouses in Syrian […]

As questions continue to mount about the Niger firefight that killed four U.S. soldiers in early October, here’s a timeline on what happened based on new details from the Department of Defense. There were multiple things to blame for the October ambush in Niger that left multiple U.S. service members dead, including insufficient training and […]

Trump says the ‘horrible, one-sided’ JCPOA didn’t bring peace and won’t prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, says the U.S. will reinstitute powerful sanctions on Iran. President Trump on Tuesday announced plans to leave the Iran nuclear deal, declaring the pact has failed to halt the country’s nuclear ambitions in perhaps the biggest foreign […]

Sending 2,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border will cost $182 million through the end of the fiscal year, the Pentagon’s top spokeswoman said Thursday. The money would come from the Guard’s operation and maintenance and military personnel accounts, spokeswoman Dana White said. “These are funds that are for training and so we’ll use them, […]

Israeli prime minister claims Iran had been hiding all of the elements of a secret nuclear weapons program. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed new “dramatic” intelligence Monday which he claimed shows Iran is “brazenly lying” about its nuclear weapons program and shows the country is not complying with the vaunted nuclear deal it signed […]