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A military base housing US forces in eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under a rocket attack hours after the Pentagon carried out multiple airstrikes against Syrian troops. Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news network, citing local sources, reported that ‏the rockets landed in the vicinity of a US-controlled al-Omar oil …

The United States has imposed sanctions on four entities and three individuals over their alleged involvement in a procurement network that purportedly supports Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program. The US Department of the Treasury claimed that the network “operates on behalf of” Iran’s Ministry of Defense. According to the …

A bipartisan Senate resolution wades into the Sino-Indian conflict to further drive a wedge between two Asian giants Washington is inserting itself into the ongoing Sino-Indian border conflict in an effort to both win political points with India while further skewering China. The recent bi-partisan Senate Resolution introduced in the …

A yeast called Candida auris has sickened more people over a wider area during the pandemic. The nation’s top health officials are sounding the alarm about Candida auris, a deadly, drug-resistant fungus that’s spreading rapidly across the United States. Since its first detection in the country in 2016, the yeast …

North Korea has fired cruise missiles off its east coast as the United States and South Korea plan to hold their largest joint military drills in the region in June. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement that North Korea appears to have fired multiple cruise …

The former US president has indicated on social media that he expects to be arrested in hush-money case Former US president Donald Trump has told his advisers that he would like to be handcuffed in a potential upcoming court appearance if he is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury for …

Washington believes it’s the “government of the world,” Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has claimed Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has bristled over his government being accused by the US State Department of human rights abuses, and dismissed his country’s neighbors to the north as “liars.” Speaking at a press …

Iran has roundly dismissed the US State Department’s recent report on the situation of human rights in the country, saying that Washington has no qualification to make a comment about human rights and lecture others on the matter. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani on Wednesday rejected the annual report as …

Members “need to deliver more in a more dangerous world,” the secretary general of the US-led military bloc says NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has urged member states to boost their defense spending, saying the US-led alliance expected more countries to meet the 2% of GDP target in 2022. Stoltenberg …

China and Russia are deepening cooperation on a key atomic technology that has Pentagon planners on edge because of its potential to upset the global balance of nuclear weapons. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping announced a long-term deal to continue developing so-called fast-neutron reactors. The announcement …

A newly enacted law will still allow for redactions to keep most highly classified information under wraps US President Joe Biden has signed a bill that directs the federal government to declassify material related to the genesis of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the White House suggesting “potential links” between the …

Two students were injured after a shooting at a Texas high school on Monday and a suspect is in custody, police and school district officials said. The shooting happened on the Lamar High School campus in Arlington outside a school building, news outlets report. The school was placed in lockdown …

Washington is still ordering Islamists to attack Assad’s forces, Moscow’s spy chief has claimed The US is still working with Islamic State terrorists and other Islamist groups to carry out attacks against Bashar Assad’s government forces in Syria, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief, Sergey Naryshkin, has claimed. According to …

South Korea and the US will hold the Ssangyong amphibious exercise from March 20 to April 3, after a five-year pause, as part of their allied field drills, a South Korean news agency reported, citing military officials. “The upcoming training will demonstrate the South Korea-U.S. alliance’s will to realize ‘peace …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on an Africa visit also met representatives from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed with officials in Ethiopia a dispute with downstream Egypt over Ethiopia’s completion of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam. Egypt and Sudan have been in talks …

North Korea has test-launched a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea, the South Korean military says. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement on Thursday that it had detected the launch from the Sunan area in Pyongyang at 7:10 a.m. local time. The …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly instructed his cabinet ministers to avoid traveling to the United States and meeting American officials unless he receives an invite to meet with US President Joe Biden at the White House. “As long as I don’t visit there, nobody does,” an unnamed source …

Statistics indicate a rise in cases motivated by prejudice against race, religion and sexual orientation. Hate crimes in the United States have continued to rise sharply and have now reached their highest level since records began, according to data from 2021 analyzed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which …

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that relations with the United States were in a “lamentable state” and at their lowest level, after Washington accused Russia of downing one of its reconnaissance drones over the Black Sea. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters there had been no high-level contact with Washington …

The South Korean and U.S. militaries launched their biggest joint military exercises in years Monday, as North Korea said it tested submarine-launched cruise missiles in an apparent protest of the drills it views as an invasion rehearsal. North Korea’s launches Sunday signal the country likely will conduct provocative weapons testing …