(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The United States military has started removing hundreds of troops from Syria but will leave over 1,000 in the country, at least for now, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
US officials told the Times that the US was shuttering three of its eight bases in...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Donald Trump’s mission to gut USAID is exposing fault lines inside the State Department, pitting loyalists against moderates and testing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s allegiance to the president’s agenda.
The State Department is reportedly split between officials loyal to President Trump and those aligned with...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump declined an Israeli plan to attack Iran with US support as soon as next month in favor of attempting diplomacy with Tehran over its civilian nuclear program, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The report said Israel developed plans to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities...
(José Niño, Headline USA) A recent promotion within the National Security Council has ignited backlash from within Donald Trump’s own movement, spotlighting ideological rifts within the Trump administration.
At the center of the controversy is Ivan Kanapathy, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and Mandarin-speaking Asia expert, who now serves...
(José Niño, Headline USA) President Donald Trump personally intervened to prevent Elon Musk from attending a classified Pentagon briefing on China, igniting a firestorm over national security, business interests, and government transparency.
According to a report by Axios, President Donald Trump personally intervened to block Elon Musk from receiving a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In early 2023, Showtime released a television series that depicted a German national named Andreas Strassmeir as an accomplice in the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing, which remains the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in American history.
In the show, OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh is shown...
(José Niño, Headline USA) The ouster of Dan Caldwell from the Pentagon may have been triggered by a leak investigation—but to many inside Trump world, it looks more like the sidelining of a dissenting voice within the administration.
Dan Caldwell, a senior advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The State Department is finally closing its “Global Engagement Center,” which in recent years was revealed to have colluded with corporate media outlets and tech companies to censor dissident political voices.
“It is the responsibility of every government official to continuously work to preserve and protect...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Pentagon officials have told their Israeli counterparts that the United States will begin a phased withdrawal of its troops from Syria within two months, the Israeli news site Ynet reported on Tuesday.
A senior Israeli official said that the US withdrawal could be partial, meaning only some...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Trump appointee Pete Marocco has abruptly left his position as the State Department’s head of foreign aid after he helped oversee the elimination of staff, programs and funding at USAID.
Marocco in the role reportedly clashed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others in the...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Israeli military is set to receive a “major new weapons shipment” from the US in the coming weeks to help prepare it for continued operations in Gaza and a potential attack on Iran, the Israeli news site Ynet reported on Monday.
The details of the arms shipment are unclear,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump on Monday suggested that Iran was slow-walking talks with the US and repeated his threat of military action if a deal on Tehran’s nuclear program isn’t reached.
The US and Iran held indirect negotiations in Oman over the weekend and are set to hold another round in...