An April 3 report by the Congressional Research Service says the White House’s draft 2018 request does not comply with the $549 billion cap. Though most lawmakers probably knew it already, the Congressional Research Service on Monday confirmed that President Trump’s March 16 proposal to boost the defense budget by $54 billion would run afoul […]
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No Injuries Reported: U.S. Military Jet Crashes in Highly Populated Prince Georges County Maryland…
An F-16C fighter jet with the D.C. Air National Guard crashed Wednesday morning into a wooded area near Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County, Maryland, authorities said. The single-engine aircraft, assigned to the 113th Wing, crashed about 9:15 a.m. just six miles southwest of the base. Officials at the base said the jet was […]
Syrian Air Force Struck Idlib, Syria’s Chemical Arms Lab…
“According to Russian airspace monitoring systems, yesterday between 11.30 and 12.30 local time the Syrian aviation carried out an airstrike on the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhun, targeting a major ammunition storage facility of terrorists and a cluster of military hardware. The territory of this storage facility housed workshops to produce projectiles stuffed with toxic…
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Neither by Invitation Nor War Resolution, No Matter, U.S. Is Launching White Phosphorous Airstrikes in Syria…
New pictures reveal that US airplanes operating in northern Syria are using White phosphorus munitions in sorties on Islamic State insurgents across the embattled Raqqa governorate. The fiery substance was also recently deployed by American jets to combat ISIS militants across the border in Mosul, a video released by Amaq Agency suggests…
Pentagon Ramps Up Yemen Airstrikes…
The Pentagon carried out roughly 20 strikes in Yemen against al Qaeda militants since last week, putting the total number of strikes past 70 in a little over a month, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday. The strikes are aimed at al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemeni al Qaeda branch that is […]
Hackers Secure U.S.-South Korean Plan for War Against North Korea…
Hackers gained an access to the 5027 secret plan, which describes joint actions of the US and the Republic of Korea in the event of a full-scale war with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, KBS TV-channel reported, citing an informed source in the South Korean government…
SYRIA: Looks Like Yet Another Chemical Weapon False Flag on the Eve of Peace Talks in Brussels
The immediate accusation from a high ranking EU official serves as a dangerous precedent where public outcry can be made even before the truth surrounding the tragedy can emerge. Israeli President, Benjamin Netanyahu, joined in on the condemnation, as did Amnesty International. Merely hours after the alleged chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhun, supposedly by […]
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Reuters Reports, Retracts, Re-Reports, Then Replaces Story on Jared Kushner Visiting Iraq…
Reuters reported, then retracted, then re-reported, then deleted, and then re-re-reported a story about President Donald Trump’s White House adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner visiting Iraq. Several outlets reported on Sunday that Kushner was visiting Mosul on invitation from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph F. Dunford Jr. Among those outlets […]
Top General Says U.S. Solution to North Korean Aggression Must Involve China…
The commander of U.S. Strategic Command said Tuesday that Washington cannot unilaterally disable North Korea’s nuclear program without the help of China, despite President Donald Trump’s earlier ultimatum that America would act alone if necessary. “Any solution to the North Korea problem has to involve China,” Gen. John Hyten testified before the Senate Armed Services […]
McCain Furious at Rex Tillerson for Saying Assad Can Stay…
The six year Syrian proxy war to dethrone president Bashar al Assad quietly ended with a whimper yesterday when at a news conference in the Turkish capital, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson suggested the end of Bashar Assad’s presidency is no longer a prerequisite for a way out of the Syrian crisis, in a dramatic […]
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Only 7 in 10 Air Force Planes Ready to Fly…
On March 22, as North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un prepared to test-launch a missile and tensions rose on the volatile Korean peninsula, a lone B-1B Lancer bomber took off from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and flew across the Pacific on a Continuous Bomber Presence sortie. It rendezvoused with Japanese F-15J Eagles for […]
The Pentagon Wants to Keep Ground Troops in Libya and Go On Offense in Somalia…
The U.S. military will keep an unspecified number of ground troops in Libya to help friendly forces further degrade the Islamic State faction there, and officials are seeking new leeway to target al Qaida loyalists in Somalia, the top commander overseeing operations in Africa said Friday. “We’re going to maintain a force that has the […]
From Soviet Archives: Rare Photos of McCain During Vietnam War Revealed…
Several images display prisoners of war, including US Senator John McCain. One photo shows McCain standing near a plane before an assault on a power plant in Hanoi. Another one depicts locals pulling McCain out of the Hanoi Lake. Another one was taken while he was examined by a Vietnamese doctor. The last one shows […]
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Major U-Turn in U.S. Foreign Policy: Tillerson — Assad Doesn’t Have to Go…
If there was a Nobel Prize for hypocrisy, Turkey Foreign Minister Mevut Cavusoglu just won it. Speaking along side American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Ankara, Cavusoglu said, “It is not good or realistic to work with a terrorist group while fighting another terrorist group”. The irony is that Turkey claims to be fighting […]
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U.S. Forces Block Syrian Army Advance in Preparation For Syria Partition…
The road to Raqqa is now blocked by U.S. forces and their allies. The chances that Raqqa (and the surrounding region) will be returned to Syria are now slim to none. Foreign armies and their proxies are sharpening their carving knives. U.S. Special Forces and Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters have just captured a “strategic […]
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Washington’s Sponsored State of “Great Kurdistan” To Be Created in Syria And Iraq
According to the documents at our disposal, the U.S. authorities and the Syrian Kurds reached an agreement past week on the boundaries of the Kurdish autonomy in the territory of Syria, which had been guaranteed to Kurds in case of capturing Raqqa and Al-Tabqah (34 miles to the West of Raqqa). This confirms the reports […]
200 More U.S. Boots on the Ground to ‘advise and assist’ in Mosul Offensive…
The U.S. military is sending an additional two companies of soldiers to Iraq to help Iraqi troops fighting to retake Mosul from ISIS, defense officials confirmed to ABC News. Two companies of soldiers is equal to between 200 to 300 soldiers. Additional members of the 82nd Airborne Division’s second combat brigade are deploying to Iraq […]
Somalia: Reported U.S. Covert Actions Under Bush Jr. and Obama…
The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) is the lead agency in the covert ‘war on terror’ in Somalia, although the CIA also has a strong regional presence. The US has been carrying out extensive covert military operations inside Somalia since 2001, as a major six-part investigation by the US Army Times recently revealed. Elite […]
The Airstrike in Mosul Was Potentially One of the Worst U.S. Led Civilian Bombings in 25 Years…
Even though Iraqi civil defense workers are still sorting through the rubble, the March 17 U.S. airstrike in West Mosul, if confirmed, could potentially rank among one of the most devastating attacks on civilians by American forces in more than two decades. Residents from the neighborhood where the strike occurred said that 137 civilians were […]
Is America’s War in Iraq, Syria and Libya Constitutional?…
In recent testimony before the Senate Judiciary hearing, I supported the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch, despite my disagreement with some of his opinions. I specifically noted that his textualist approach to statute and the Constitution is no vice in a federal judge. While I hold many liberal views, I also believe in a formalist […]
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