(Headline USA) Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the table as the U.S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the region.
Oman's Foreign...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, Ehshan Safarnejad breaks down what many outside Iran still misunderstand: how real economic grievances can be hijacked into coordinated destabilization, and why Iranians draw a hard line between protest and proxy violence.
Safarnejad also digs into the balkanization playbook targeting Iran’s diverse ethnic...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, the highest-ranking US military officer, has warned President Trump that there would be significant risks that come with attacking Iran, including the possibility of a protracted war, Axios reported on Monday, a report President Trump later...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli opposition leader and former Prime Minister Yair Lapid backed the idea of Israel’s “biblical borders” when asked about the US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee’s belief that Israel had the divine right to take over all the land between the Nile and Euphrates rivers.
“I support...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Tuesday marks four years since Russia first launched its invasion of Ukraine, and, despite President Trump promising to end the war quickly, there’s no end in sight to the conflict as Russian and Ukrainian leadership haven’t budged on their core demands for a peace deal.
Ukrainian President...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces blew up yet another boat it accused of running drugs, killing three people.
The command said the boat was targeted in the Caribbean Sea and described the people it killed as “narco-terrorists,” a term used by the Trump...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a segment Sunday that appeared aimed at challenging President Donald Trump’s assertions of genocide against Afrikaners in South Africa.
Instead, the report ended up reinforcing key elements of the president’s concerns.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly cited a video of white crosses lining a South...
(Kyle Anzalone, Libertarian Institute) President Donald Trump said the US is sending a hospital ship to Greenland. Denmark responded that Greenlanders are not in need of additional medical assistance.
“Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US has ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family members from its embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, as it prepares for a potential attack on Iran, which could provoke a full-blown regional war.
A State Department official told The Hill that the evacuation was a “prudent”...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Jack Teixeira, the former Massachusetts Air National Guard member who caused an international uproar when he leaked highly classified documents about the war in Ukraine, is now incarcerated at the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado—widely considered the harshest detention center in the U.S.
The 24-year-old Teixeira...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) FBI Director Kashyap Patel joined the American men's hockey players in the locker room Sunday for a rowdy celebration of winning the gold medal in the Winter Olympics.
Videos shared on social media showed a pumped-up Patel drinking beer from a bottle and spraying the rest...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump is considering launching a “targeted strike” on Iran in the coming days that would be followed by a much larger attack, potentially aimed at regime change, if Tehran doesn’t agree to his demands, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
US and Iranian officials are set to hold...