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In April, Syrian rebel fighters and their US special-forces trainers repulsed an ISIS attack in an hours-long battle marked by suicide bombers and coalition airstrikes. The battle took place at al Tanf near the Syria-Iraq border, and the camp there is still used by US and UK personnel to train Western-backed fighters. But with ISIS’ […]

On Thursday, May 25, 2017 the United Kingdom announced that they will cease sharing intelligence information as a result of the latest leak by the United States in the investigation into the Manchester bombing incident on Monday, May 22nd. Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, stated that investigation has been “compromised by the leaks and we can’t […]

Record setting International Space Station commander Peggy Whitson and rookie American astronaut, U.S. Air Force Colonel Jack Fischer, will undergo an emergency space walk on Tuesday to replace one of the two computers used to control major U.S. systems aboard the spacecraft. The computer, which serves as the primary computing hub for most the U.S. […]

North Korea’s deputy U.N. envoy said on Friday the United States needed to roll back its “hostile policy” toward the country before there could be talks as Washington raised concern that Pyongyang could be producing a chemical used in a nerve agent. “As everybody knows, the Americans have gestured (toward) dialogue,” North Korea’s deputy U.N. […]

The Pentagon has stepped up communication with the Russian military over Syria, a top official said Friday as the Trump administration lays plans for future operations likely to thrust U.S. forces closer to Russian and Syrian troops. Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the United States had […]

ISTANBUL — Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday called on the Trump administration to replace its envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition — the latest sign of Turkish frustration with the U.S. war strategy in Syria amid mounting tensions between the two NATO allies. Turkey has forcefully protested the Trump administration’s decision to arm a Syrian […]

The United States on Wednesday sanctioned two Iranian defense officials, an Iranian company and members of a China-based network for supporting Iran‘s ballistic missile program, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement.   Read the whole story from Reuters.

Is the United States planning to try and shoot down North Korea’s next ballistic missile test? With North Korea successfully launching an intercontinental ballistic missile last weekend and President Trump stating that the US has “many beautiful things” in the works concerning the situation, some are suspecting a possible missile intercept attempt. The distinctive missile […]

Former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step foot on the moon is calling on the US to stop funding the International Space Station and instead use the billions of dollars being spent on it each year to send people to the planet Mars. “We must retire the ISS as soon as possible,” […]

The Lithuanian president has said she wants an ongoing US troop presence in her country in light of increased Russian activity in the region and in response to Moscow’s preparations for military exercises in neighboring Belarus late this year. “We need the serious involvement of the US to not only deter but to defend,” President […]

The government of Jordan with the cooperation of the United States is hosting the annual joint training exercise “Eager Lion” which will take place over the next 11 days. During a press conference at the Joint Special Operations Command, Director of Joint Military Training at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) Brig. Gen. Khaled Shraah […]

Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. “I’m very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally although I don’t think that nuclear probably is quite as likely as either primarily biological and maybe cyber,” Buffett said during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Saturday. “I don’t know that much about […]