Tag: U.S. Military

The Trump administration is considering deploying as many as 14,000 additional troops, along with dozens more ships and other military capabilities, to the Middle East in the face of continuing threats from Tehran. The Wall...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s replacement has also been killed by U.S. troops. “Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the 48-year-old leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), was targeted by the U.S. military in Syria last week, according to unnamed U.S. defense sources, and is believed to have been killed. News...

 U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria even as criticism points to the United States having betrayed its Kurdish allies in the region. In talking about...

Black and white thinking, which divides the world into absolute camps of good and evil, is associated with religious fanaticism from medieval Christianity to the Islamic world. There are now troubling signs that a secular...

Jewish and pro-Israel groups reacted unfavorably to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision on Sunday evening to withdraw U.S. forces from northeast Syria, ahead of an expected invasion by Turkey against Kurdish forces. The White House announced the...

Saudi Arabia has the right to defend itself, and Iranian aggression won’t be tolerated, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Thursday after a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “The U.S....

Israel bombed Iranian weapons warehouses in Iraq three times in recent weeks after reaching an understanding with the United States and Russia, the London-based pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Wednesday. Western diplomatic sources told the newspaper...

Vermont senator and leading 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would “absolutely” weigh withholding U.S. military aid to Israel to pressure the Jewish state into making policy changes. Speaking with Jon Favreau on his...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Friday to block U.S. President Donald Trump from militarily striking Iran. The measure was added by a vote of 251-170 to a $733 billion National Defense Authorization...