(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A U.S. citizen arrested in central Mexico over the weekend with a number of guns, tactical equipment and a CIA identification is not a U.S. government employee and carried a fake ID, Mexico’s security chief said Tuesday.
The man was arrested Saturday in Atlacomulco, Mexico state,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday, marking the Israeli leader’s third visit to Washington within six months. The private talks between the two leaders were expected to focus on the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran and the potential Gaza...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the IDF to prepare a plan to establish a camp to concentrate the entire civilian population of Gaza on the ruins of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
According to Haaretz, Katz said that once Palestinian civilians are pushed into what...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Israel wants assurances from the US that if it agrees to a 60-day Gaza ceasefire deal, it could restart its genocidal war if it deems that its conditions are not met in negotiations with Hamas, Middle East Eye reported on Friday, citing Israeli media.
Under the potential deal,...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) After media reports said the US and Iran were expected to resume negotiations this week, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei threw cold water on the idea, citing public opinion within Iran.
“Public opinion is currently so angry that no one even dares to talk about negotiations and...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Russia and Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at each other’s territory over the weekend as fighting continued to rage across the frontlines in eastern Ukraine amid a stalled peace process.
Ukrainian officials said that Russia launched its largest drone attack on the war overnight Thursday into Friday, which...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) An American security contractor who previously worked at aid distribution sites inside Gaza run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has told the BBC that he witnessed his co-workers fire live ammunition at unarmed, hungry Palestinians who posed no threat.
In one incident, the contractor...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US Africa Command said in a press release on Thursday that its forces launched multiple airstrikes in southern Somalia between June 27 and June 30, a time when Somali media reported major battles between a US-backed force and al-Shabaab.
It’s unclear how many strikes AFRICOM launched during the...
(Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com) Efforts to try to get Hezbollah to agree to disarm appear to have failed, with Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem announcing Wednesday evening that the group will not agree to give up its weapons, its land, or its right to resist.
Lebanon’s government has been in talks with Hezbollah...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The Trump administration on Thursday announced its first round of new sanctions on Iran since the ceasefire that ended the 12-day US-Israeli war on the country, signaling the so-called “maximum pressure campaign” against Tehran will continue.
The US Treasury Department said it targeted an Iraqi businessman and a...
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) The House on Thursday passed a massive piece of legislation, dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill” by President Trump, that includes extra military spending to bring the 2026 military budget over $1 trillion.
The bill passed in a vote of 218-214, with only two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of President Donald Trump’s wishes to deport eight violent illegal aliens to South Sudan, even though only one of the men is actually from the country.
According to the Trump administration, South Sudan was the only nation willing to accept the...