(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump has told his aides that he may restart the full-scale bombing campaign against Iran if US troops are killed, The Wall Street Journal has reported, as the United States and Iran have traded multiple rounds of attacks despite a nominal ceasefire.
The report came...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Wednesday downplayed Iranian attacks that targeted US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, saying they may have been “slightly provoked” since the US launched strikes against Iran beforehand.
“There’s a reason for everything, and we hit them pretty hard last night,” the president told...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump on Thursday attacked House lawmakers as “unpatriotic” for passing a War Powers Resolution that would direct him to end the war with Iran, which he launched with Israel without congressional authorization, in violation of the US Constitution.
The bill passed on Wednesday in a...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Congress just proposed tying the United States military to Israel's armed forces more closely than ever before, Responsible Statecraft reported.
Buried inside the House version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act released Tuesday is Section 224, titled "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative." Ben Freeman...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House is expected to vote this week on a War Powers Resolution to end US support for Israel’s war in Lebanon, which has been a major impediment to ending the US-Israeli war against Iran.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), would end any US...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Tuesday responded to an Axios report that alleged President Donald Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s escalations in Lebanon, saying that it was “all talk” and pointing out that the US could withhold military aid if...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that the United States isn’t producing enough anti-ballistic missiles and that he has requested a license for Ukraine to start producing Patriot missiles.
“There is not enough anti-ballistic missile production in the United States, and this could lead to a...
(Headline USA) Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began.
He testified that U.S. negotiators have seen signs that Iran’s new supreme leader...
(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) A national security group wants Congress to investigate Airwallex over its ties to China.
State Armor Chief Executive Officer Michael Lucci sent a letter to several congressional leaders urging action.
The letter went to U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, U.S. Rep....
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to be the acting director of national intelligence — putting a real estate scion and fierce Trump loyalist in a key national security post as the U.S. remains at war with Iran.
Trump made the...
(Headline USA) The U.S. military said it carried out another strike Saturday on a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men in the fourth attack this week and putting the total death toll at 205.
U.S. Southern Command announced the strike with its usual...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Central Command said on Saturday that its forces fired a Hellfire missile at a Gambia-flagged commercial vessel to prevent it from reaching an Iranian port as the US continues to attack civilian ships in its enforcement of a blockade on Iran.
“US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces observed...