(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to discuss future plans for Gaza and the US-backed ceasefire deal.
Despite lacking a formal role in the Trump administration, Kushner has been acting as an advisor to US Middle East envoy Steve...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US War Department has begun sending conventional ground forces to Panama for training in jungle warfare for the first time in more than two decades, ABC News reported on Monday.
News of the training in Panama comes amid a major US military buildup in the Caribbean...
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) The Navy’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, has arrived in the Caribbean region, according to spotters in the region.
U.S. Naval Institute News cited boat spotters in Puerto Rico who eyed the destroyer, USS Bainbridge, on Tuesday. The Bainbridge, part of...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A coalition of California teachers, students and parents filed a federal lawsuit arguing that a new state law designed to combat antisemitism in schools actually censors legitimate classroom discussion about Israel and Palestine.
The American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee filed a federal lawsuit last Sunday, challenging...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the US military bombed two more boats that he claimed, without providing evidence, were carrying drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
The strikes bring the total number of boats the US has bombed since early September to...
(José Niño, Headline USA) In this Headline Geopolitics episode, José Niño interviews Carl Zha, host of the Silk & Steel Podcast and one of the most provocative voices dissecting U.S.–China relations.
Zha breaks down the trade war, America’s pivot to Asia, Western myths about China, and whether the latest...
(Headline USA) President Donald Trump welcomed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa after lifting sanctions imposed on Syria, which had been a pariah state for decades before rebel forces toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad last December.
Al-Sharaa — who once had ties to al-Qaida and had a $10 million U.S. bounty...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Hamas on Sunday handed over the remains of Hadar Goldin, an IDF officer who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war, as the Israeli military continued strikes on Gaza despite the ceasefire deal.
Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said Goldin’s body, which had been in Gaza...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that Moscow was prepared to “respond appropriately” to Venezuela’s request for military assistance amid a US military buildup in the Caribbean, Newsweek has reported.
Zakharova also responded to reports that the US had drawn up different options for...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday that Moscow still hasn’t received clarification from the US on President Trump’s order for the US military to begin testing nuclear weapons.
“So far, Moscow has not received any explanations on what President Trump meant when he announced the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US military-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) that was recently established in southern Israel has replaced Israel as the “overseer” of Gaza aid deliveries, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
Since the ceasefire deal was supposed to be implemented on October 10, Israel has violated it by...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The US has once again flown heavy bombers over the Caribbean and near the coast of Venezuela, according to a report from Newsweek, which cited flight tracking data.
Two US Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft made the provocative flight, marking the fourth time since October 15 that...