Turkey's president gave Trump back a wild, threatening letter warning him...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said he returned an outlandish letter sent to him by President Donald Trump ahead of the US pullback in Syria.The letter, from early October, urged...
View ArticleVeterans who served alongside the Kurds say Trump set a dangerous precedent...
President Donald Trump's decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria was met with an uproar from lawmakers, citizens, and veterans alike.Three veterans who served alongside the Kurds condemned the...
View ArticleErdogan reportedly played Trump an iPad video in the Oval Office to turn him...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly played a video on his iPad in the Oval Office to turn Trump and other senators against the Kurds, but attendees were left unconvinced, according to a...
View ArticleA federal judge ruled that New Jersey-born, ISIS-bride Hoda Muthana is not a...
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Hoda Muthana, a 25-year-old woman born in New Jersey who joined ISIS in 2014, is not a US citizen. Hoda Muthana is currently staying in a refugee camp in Syria...
View ArticleTurkey doesn't want to hold onto foreign ISIS fighters but neither does the...
President Donald Trump made the abrupt decision to pull the remaining US troops out of Kurdish-controlled areas in Syria last month, setting in motion a regional domino effect.One consequence is that...
View ArticleRussian forces just occupied a former US air base in Syria
Russian have ground forces occupied what was a US air base in northern Syria until US troops withdrew last month.Russian media showed footage of armed military police were shown flying into the base,...
View ArticleTrump's retreat in Syria could be an intelligence coup for Putin. The leaked...
An investigation by the Intercept and the New York Times shows how Iran capitalized on US intelligence abandoning its Iraqi operatives in the wake of its 2011 troop withdrawal. Iraqis who had worked...
View ArticleThese are the countries where Russia's shadowy Wagner Group mercenaries operate
Two members of the Wagner Group were arrested in November on allegations of spying. The two men were reportedly meeting with Saif Gaddafi, the son of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in an effort to...
View ArticleTrump's Syria retreat is giving ISIS 'time and space' to strike the West,...
A Pentagon Inspector General report says President Donald Trump's decision to retreat from northeastern Syria and allow a Turkish incursion there gives ISIS the ability to rebuild and plan attacks on...
View ArticleTrump's betrayal of the Kurds gifted military intelligence to Russia
When Trump ordered US troops to abandon the Kurds in Northern Syria, Turkish forces stormed the newly unprotected area.Within days of the Americans abandoning their bases, "reporters" from the Russian...
View ArticleMike Pence made a surprise trip to Iraq to reassure Kurdish allies
Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise trip to Iraq on Saturday to reassure the US's Kurdish allies.It's the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of US forces...
View ArticleThe White House said Conan, the hero dog that helped take down the leader of...
A White House official said on Monday said Conan, the military working dog that helped take down ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October, was female.Shortly thereafter, a White House official told...
View ArticleTurkey is holding up NATO military plans because of a dispute over Syria
Turkey is withholding its backing of a NATO defense plan until the alliance offers more Ankara more political support for its fight against the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria.The defense plan, meant to...
View ArticleWhat Bashar Assad's victory looks like in Syria — 'totally and utterly...
Syrian government forces, backed by Russian troops, retook Ghouta in April 2018, after pummeling the city for years.On the ground in Ghouta, Bashar Assad's forces have reveled in their victory, which...
View ArticleNATO braces for an awkward summit as Boris Johnson tells Trump to butt out of...
World leaders are set to meet in England on Tuesday and Wednesday for a NATO summit that will also mark the alliance's 70th anniversary.The meeting could end up being more awkward than celebratory.In...
View ArticleTurkey and the Assad regime kill at least 21, mostly civilians, in northern...
At least 21 people have been killed in separate airstrikes in Syria, according to human rights groups and the Syrian Democratic Forces.The strikes come as the Syrian regime is attempting to resume...
View Article7 wars that defined the decade and changed how we fight around the world
The past decade has tested military alliances and brought on threats few could have imagined.ISIS's use of social media to recruit fighters and disseminate propaganda was unprecedented, Philippines...
View ArticleMacron corrects Trump to his face at NATO meeting over his repeated false...
French President Emmanuel Macron fact-checked US President Donald Trump on the subject of ISIS as they met in London on Tuesday during a NATO summit.Trump has in the past claimed that the terrorist...
View ArticleTrump slammed Macron for 'insulting' NATO. But the French president was...
President Donald Trump, who has spent years criticizing NATO and called it "obsolete," on Tuesday slammed French President Emmanuel Macron for "insulting" the alliance in a recent interview.The French...
View ArticleThe US is suspected of killing a terrorist in Syria with the 'Ninja Bomb,' a...
One, if not two, suspected terrorists in northwestern Syria were killed in an unusual airstrike, according to multiple reports.The target's minivan was reportedly struck by a munition that didn't...
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