FOREIGN AFFAIRS

(Headline USA) Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot. Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's priorities, he's nowhere...

(José Niño, Headline USA) With the 25-year mark since September 11 approaching, the Trump administration has quietly scrubbed several high profile Al Qaeda affiliated operatives off its terrorism sanctions list, according to Max Blumenthal's reporting in The Grayzone.  Among them is Abdullah Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric whose career involved funneling...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US on Tuesday launched more strikes against Iranian oil tankers, and the Iranian military vowed it would respond, marking another escalation of the war. A US official told Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin that the United States launched strikes against tankers near Kharg Island, deep inside...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday, marking the first time they’ve visited the Ukrainian capital in their role in negotiations on the war in Ukraine. The pair traveled to Kyiv following a visit to Moscow, where they held talks with Russian...

(Headline USA) Iran said Sunday it struck an unmanned U.S. vessel trying to enter the Strait of Hormuz, a claim that the U.S. military dismissed as a “total lie.” It was the latest salvo in a new flare-up of fighting between the two countries. The purported attack came a day after the...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that he was “extremely skeptical” of Iranian media reports that the US bombed a wedding in Iran on Tuesday, despite overwhelming evidence from other sources that the US was responsible. “I’ve been briefed to the extent that I know that we’re...

(Headline USA) U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” The strikes — a day after U.S. President Donald Trump sought to minimize the conflict as “small...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Researcher Steven Camarota told lawmakers Tuesday that as many as 300,000 babies were born on American soil to visiting foreigners over the past 10 years, according to Breitbart. Camarota, who directs research at the Center for Immigration Studies, delivered the figures before a House Oversight...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Iranian Health Ministry officials said on Wednesday that a series of US strikes that hit targets across Iran’s southern coast on Tuesday killed at least 18 people and wounded 108. Among the dead were security personnel and civilians, including civilians who were killed by a US strike...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Wednesday again claimed that the Strait of Hormuz was under US “control” and suggested he may rename it the “Trump Strait,” comments that came as Iran’s IRGC said that two tankers attempting to cross the strait hit Iranian mines. “Now that we have...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuba’s top diplomat in the US, has told Bloomberg that the Trump administration is unwilling to continue talks with the island nation and described the ramped-up US oil embargo, which has caused a devastating humanitarian crisis in the country, as a “war without...

(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance spoke at a Republican Jewish Coalition event on Monday, where he called the US-Israel relationship “one of the most important alliances in the world” and discussed how to sell the special relationship to the growing number of skeptics in the United States. What...