The two soldiers killed by a solo gunman during a counterterrorism operation in Syria over the weekend have been identified as members of the Iowa National Guard, officials confirmed.
The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday announced the elimination of Ra’ad Sa’ad, a Hamas official who planned the October 7 attack.
A leftist extremist group was allegedly building bombs and choosing targets for New Year’s Eve terror attacks in Los Angeles, but federal officials have foiled those plans.
A spokesman for the Syrian Interior Ministry appeared to confirm this weekend that the man who killed two American soldiers and an interpreter in Palmyra was employed with the jihadist government’s security forces, but claimed that he was “under review” for “extremist” opinions.
Chilean conservative José Antonio Kast obtained a sweeping nationwide victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff election.
The High Court of Hong Kong found Jimmy Lai, the proprietor of the anti-communist newspaper Apple Daily and several other free journalism outlets, guilty of violating various provisions of the Chinese “national security law” imposed on the country in 2020 to crush dissent.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country’s bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia as he arrived in Berlin for talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war.
U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin Sunday morning for another round of talks intended to secure a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
In the same week Syrians were celebrating a new chapter in their country, an ambush has killed two U.S. soldiers and an interpreter in Syria, the Pentagon announced.
President Donald Trump has secured “massive accomplishments” over the course of the year, Jason Miller, senior advisor to the president, said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
The United States says it is lifting sanctions on Belarusian potash in the latest sign of a thaw between Washington and the isolated autocracy.
At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Russia’s southwestern Saratov region and parts of Ukraine went without power following targeted assaults.
President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to “cease all shooting,” following a tense week of escalating clashes that threatened to destroy the ceasefire agreement he negotiated between the two countries in July.
In an interview with Al Jazeera News on Wednesday, Hamas Abroad leader Khaled Mashaal claimed that “fifty-one percent of American youth are supportive not only of the Palestinian cause, but of Hamas.”
Syria has approved the first Jewish organization to be officially recognized since Syria became an independent nation in the 1940s.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Turkmenistan to discuss the war in Ukraine. Their meeting was unexpectedly interrupted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who demanded an audience with Putin to secure his support against India and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
An unnamed World Health Organization (W.H.O.) spokesperson insisted in remarks published on Thursday that the agency is not seeking to change its current, meager relationship with Taiwan after a senior Japanese government official claimed this week that W.H.O. chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus promised more cooperation with Taipei.
Chilean voters will choose their new president between conservative José Antonio Kast and communist Jeannette Jara in Sunday’s runoff.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday imposed sanctions on Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s convicted drug-trafficking nephews.
The U.S.-based Cuban news outlet Martí Noticias reported on Thursday that the Communist Party on the island has ordered the expulsion of Father José Ramírez, a priest stationed in Havana who rang the bells of his church on Monday in solidarity with protesters who had taken to the streets that night.
There are “multiple deportations coming” in relation to the Somali fraud scandal, Trump border czar Tom Homan revealed, noting that a fraud investigator informed him there was certainly immigration fraud involved with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) as well.
Swiss pop singer and rapper Nemo is returning the 2024 Eurovision trophy to protest Israel participating in the song contest.
Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Thursday evening accused the United States of “stealing” the recently seized oil tanker — claiming the situation is “like Pirates of the Caribbean.”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), set to leave Congress in January, was praised Wednesday by the co-founder of CODEPINK, a far-left activist group with a history of supporting authoritarian regimes, U.S. adversaries, and designated terrorist organizations, during a visit to her office on Capitol Hill.
Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect on Wednesday amid heavy resistance from the nation’s teenagers, ominous threats from regulators, and apprehension around the world.
Homeland Security Kristi Noem is championing the administration’s security policies — and fending off Democratic complaints — as she testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on “Worldwide Threats to the Homeland.”
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said President Donald Trump does not “understand what it is to be an American,” boasting of his family’s military service and saying he feels “bad” for Trump’s supporters in an interview with Jim Acosta.
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan has detained four young Afghan men who posted social media videos of themselves dressed as characters from the British crime drama “Peaky Blinders,” a show set in the early years of the 20th Century.
Former Bolivian President Luis Arce, who left the head of state job on November 8, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of misappropriation of state funds as part of an investigation into a broad corruption scheme linked to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Party.
Portugal’s chief narcotics police officer, Artur Vaz, said on Monday that Latin American drug cartels are shipping huge amounts of cocaine to Europe, frequently using cheap “narco-subs” that have proven difficult for European coastal patrols to detect.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization and arm of the Iranian military, seized a oil vessel allegedly carrying “smuggled diesel” in the Persian Gulf, Tehran revealed on Thursday.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate María Corina Machado revealed that the Trump administration helped her escape from Venezuela.
Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras on Wednesday denounced that the socialist regime seized his passport and prevented him from traveling out of the country.
Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro said on Wednesday that a combined demonstration of Russian and Chinese airpower near Japan’s southern islands was “clearly intended as a show of force against our nation, which is a serious concern for our national security.”
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, December 11.
The Islamist terror state of Iran accused the United States of “piracy” on Thursday in response to President Donald Trump revealing that U.S. authorities had seized a crude oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea accused of transporting sanctioned oil from Iran and its ally Venezuela.
The House Judiciary Committee holds an oversight hearing on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) on Thursday, November 11.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon announced that the United States has seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba as it was sailing off the coast of Venezuela.
The Southern Transitional Council (STC), a secessionist group in Yemen, has seized control of the oil-rich provinces of Hadramout and Mahra, threatening to re-ignite the stalemated Yemeni civil war and potentially destabilize the region.
