James Mattis announces US will ‘accelerate the fight’ against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

James Mattis announces US will ‘accelerate the fight’ against ISIS in Iraq and Syria

In a joint press conference conducted with Denmark’s Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen, American Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the coalition will begin accelerating its campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. “We will further accelerate this fight to free people from ISIS’ crushing occupation and [the] enemy’s terror threat to Europe and […]

Mike Flynn’s appointment as National Security Advisor: Too many red flags ignored

Mike Flynn’s appointment as National Security Advisor: Too many red flags ignored

Mike Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and short-lived National Security Advisor under President Trump, has found himself at the center of allegations levied at the Trump Administration regarding Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential election.  Recent revelations regarding payments totaling more than a half million dollars given to Flynn by companies representing […]

U.S. warned France of Russian cyber meddling before French election

U.S. warned France of Russian cyber meddling before French election

During testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) on May 9, 2017, head of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), Admiral Mike Rogers, informed the senators that the United States had sent a warning to French government officials that Russia was penetrating French computer systems ahead of the French […]

Trump fires FBI Director Comey, prompting questions about Russia investigation

Trump fires FBI Director Comey, prompting questions about Russia investigation

President Donald Trump set off a chain reaction throughout Washington on Tuesday, after making the sudden announcement that he had fired FBI Director James Comey. As the head of the FBI, Comey had been leading the investigation into potential ties between Trump’s campaign staff in the 2016 Presidential election and officials within the Russian government believed […]

Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI’s Russia investigation

Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI’s Russia investigation

Washington (CNN)Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year’s election, according to people familiar with the matter. CNN learned of the subpoenas hours before President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey. […]

Syria claims 5,000 militant Chinese jihadists fighting in the Syrian Civil War

Syria claims 5,000 militant Chinese jihadists fighting in the Syrian Civil War

The Syrian ambassador to China claimed on Monday that 5,000 ethnic Uighurs, members of a Muslim minority in western China, are fighting with jihadists in the Syrian Civil War. The Chinese government has previously warned of the growing Muslim insurgency within its own borders, blaming the Uighurs for a number of terrorist attacks inside China. […]

Shulkin says he’s considering closing 1,100 Veterans Affairs facilities

Shulkin says he’s considering closing 1,100 Veterans Affairs facilities

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says his department is seeking to close perhaps more than 1,100 VA facilities nationwide as it develops plans to allow more veterans to receive medical care in the private sector. At a House hearing Wednesday, Shulkin said the VA had identified more than 430 vacant buildings and 735 […]

Syrian Kurds are now armed with sensitive US weaponry, and the Pentagon denies supplying it

Syrian Kurds are now armed with sensitive US weaponry, and the Pentagon denies supplying it

WASHINGTON — Syrian Kurdish fighters are newly armed with sophisticated American combat equipment as they close in on the Islamic State’s stronghold in Raqqa, Military Times has learned, weaponry the Pentagon says it is barred from providing to those forces. The gear includes U.S.-manufactured night-vision goggles, rifles and advanced optics among other items, the same […]

Insiders say Trump keeps clashing with his national security adviser

Insiders say Trump keeps clashing with his national security adviser

President Donald Trump has repeatedly clashed with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, in front of his staff, according to a column by Eli Lake at Bloomberg published Monday. The three-star Army general increasingly is being sidelined in favor of other advisers because Trump has become “disillusioned” with him, according to Lake. Three White House […]

Syrian Kurds will look to connect territory to Mediterranean after fall of Raqqa

Syrian Kurds will look to connect territory to Mediterranean after fall of Raqqa

Kurdish fighters in Northern Syria have revealed plans to extend their gains across northern Syria by establishing a trade route to the Mediterranean Sea, in a move that would almost certainly be opposed from the outset by Turkey, the Guardian reports. U.S. support for the Kurds fighting in Syria against the Islamic State and Assad […]

Special Operations Chief: ‘We are not a panacea’

Special Operations Chief: ‘We are not a panacea’

The head of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), General Raymond “Tony” Thomas III, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 4, 2017, and informed lawmakers and the public that the country’s elite special operations forces could not solve all of the world’s problems. “We are not a panacea,” said the Army General, former […]