Mattis In Riyadh To Boost US-Saudi Alliance
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to reinvigorate the Riyadh-Washington alliance, with both seeing a common ...
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Trump’s Threatened ‘armada’ Still Far From N. Korea
An aircraft carrier the US Navy said was steaming toward the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not yet departed, ...
Volleyball Games At North Korean Nuke Test Site
North Korea watchers said Tuesday they had observed unusual activity at the reclusive country's nuclear test site -- workers playing ...
Carrier That Trump Promised Would Intimidate Kim Won’t Arrive For DAYS
A U. S. aircraft carrier the Navy had said was heading toward the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not ...
US Carrier Strike Group Still Far From N. Korea
A US aircraft carrier the Navy had said was heading toward the Korean Peninsula amid rising tensions has not yet ...
Internet Pioneer Robert Taylor Dies
One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died. While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, ...
General McMaster Arrives In Kabul For Talks Following MOAB Bombing
The GBU-43, otherwise known as the Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB unleashes a devastating fireball that incinerates anything within ...
The Battle For Mosul
Six months since Iraqi forces launched a vast operation to oust the Islamic State group from second city Mosul, they ...
Huge US Bomb Kills Dozens of IS Militants In Afghanistan
The US military's largest non-nuclear bomb killed dozens of Islamic State militants as it smashed their mountain hideouts, Afghan officials ...
Pentagon Chief To Travel Next Week To Middle East, Africa
US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis is heading to the Middle East and Africa next week for a series of ...
Chain of Events After Suspected Syria Chemical Attack
A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 killed dozens of people. Western ...
Trump Gave Syria Attack Order ‘during Dessert’
US President Donald Trump gave the order to strike Syria with dozens of cruise missiles "during dessert" with visiting Chinese ...
Post-Election Vigilante Violence Flares In Ghana
Ghanaians were horrified when members of a vigilante group loosely affiliated with the ruling party stormed a court to free ...
‘No Doubt’ Syria Responsible For Deadly Chemical Attack
The United States has "no doubt" that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for last week's chemical ...
Syria Dominates G7 Meet Before Tillerson Heads To Russia
Syria is set to dominate Tuesday's meeting of G7 foreign ministers in Italy, with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ...
US Strike Wiped Out Fifth of Assad Air Force, Mattis Says
The US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of the Damascus regime's remaining warplanes, Pentagon chief Jim ...
US Strike Destroyed 20 Percent of Syria’s Working Jets
Last week's US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of President Bashar al-Assad's working warplanes, Pentagon chief ...
Pentagon Suspects Chemical Weapons Still At Syrian Air Base
The Pentagon believes the Syrian regime likely has additional chemical weapons stocks at the airfield struck by US missiles last ...
Trump Notifies US Congress of Syria Airstrikes
President Donald Trump notified Congress on Saturday of the US missile strikes on Syria days after the event, warning ominously ...
Trump’s Syria Strike Celebrated By ‘terrorists’
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said “terrorists are celebrating” US strikes on a Syrian airbase. His comments echo the response ...