Tag: us

The Russians appear to be successfully jamming United States drones over Syria according to US officials. The Russian military has been jamming some U.S. military drones operating in the skies over Syria, seriously affecting American military operations, according to four U.S. officials. The Russians began jamming some smaller U.S. drones several weeks ago, the officials said, after a […]

Germany and Norway have recently announced they would stop selling weapons to countries in the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen.  But the US told Business Insider that it has no intentions of halting weapons sales or support for the coalition.  The war in Yemen has caused mass starvation and been dubbed “the worst humanitarian […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the US’s new strategy in Syria, and he named combating Iran’sIran’sIran’s influence and its threat to US interests as a main goal. The US has just 2,000 troops in Syria while Iran has an estimated 70,000, but the US has plenty of assets — military, economic, and diplomatic […]

The US-led coalition has set up a Kurdish-dominated “Border Security Force” in Syria. The move has enraged Russia, Iran, the Syrian regime, and especially Turkey. A US Defense Department spokesperson asserted that “The training is designed to enhance security for displaced persons returning to their devastated communities.” The US-led coalition in Syria acknowledged over the weekend that it’s […]

“This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while,” former President George W. Bush said on the White House South Lawn on Sept. 16, 2001. “And the American people must be patient. I’m going to be patient.” Bush was right that a war on an abstract noun like “terror” would take awhile. It began […]

On Wednesday a Turkish banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla age 47, who had been accused of aiding Iran to circumvent economic sanctions was convicted by a U.S. court on four counts of conspiracy including conspiracy to defraud the United States and one separate count of bank fraud. The situation has put a strain on U.S.-Turkish relations since […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday promised he would stop a Kurd-led border force being created by the US, and said final preparations were under way to invade the Kurdish canton of Afrin, as tensions rose once again between the ostensible allies over Syria. His speech in Ankara came a day after the US announced it […]

The U.S sanctioned five Iranian entities for their work on the nation’s ballistic missile program and signaled that more punitive measures lay ahead in response to the Islamic Republic’s suppression of anti-government protests. The entities, none of which are publicly traded, are being designated for being owned or controlled by Iran’s Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group, […]

The US has given Israel the green light to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani, commander of an elite Iranian military unit and mastermind behind Tehran’s military operations across the Middle East, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Monday. Al-Jarida quoted an unnamed source in Jerusalem who said that the two allies have made a quiet agreement after deciding that […]

President Donald Trump approves of sending Javelin anti-tank missile systems to the frontlines of Ukraine’s war against Russian-backed separatists. The missile system is one of the most advanced on the market, and has been repeatedly requested by the Ukrainian government. Russia has reacted very negatively to the news, and the move may provoke bigger clashes […]

Russia, which has never fully complied with the mutual observation flight agreement that was supposed to build trust between them and the U.S., is now threatening to cut the agreement and blaming Washington fully for the snafu. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced it has informed Washington that after the U.S. had accused Russia […]

Posing as a fellow jihadist, undercover FBI agent Tamer Elnoury was in the midst of foiling a potentially deadly terrorist attack in Canada when his day went straight downhill. He was on a road trip with wanna-be terrorist Chiheb Esseghaier from Montreal to Toronto, where the two were supposed to meet with another like-minded radical, […]