5,000 US troops will deploy to southern border: report
The U.S. military is set to deploy about 5,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to assist with the Trump administration’s response to a so-called migrant caravan of asylum seekers, The Wall Street...
View ArticleUS restricts exports to Chinese semiconductor firm
The U.S. Commerce Department announced Monday that it is restricting U.S. exports to the Chinese semiconductor firm Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company, Ltd.The firm "poses a significant risk of...
View ArticlePentagon sends mixed signals on border presence
The Pentagon on Monday sent mixed messages on its troop border deployment plans, insisting no final decisions have been made while also posting to social media a video of an aircraft being loaded to...
View ArticleNASA's solar probe breaks record for closest spacecraft to sun
NASA’s solar probe has officially gotten the closest a spacecraft ever has to the sun, the agency announced Monday.The Parker Solar Probe surpassed the previous record of 26.55 million miles from the...
View ArticlePentagon sending 5,200 troops to border
The U.S. military will send more than 5,200 active duty troops to the southern border with Mexico by the end of the week, the Defense Department announced Monday.“By the end of this week will we deploy...
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View ArticleDefense companies predict just hundreds of new US jobs from Saudi arms sale:...
President Trump’s $110 billion arms deal package with Saudi Arabia - a sale he has said in recent weeks would create 500,000 new defense jobs - is estimated to produce only hundreds of new positions at...
View ArticleMattis: Khashoggi killing, support for Saudis in Yemen are...
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Tuesday that he considers U.S. support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s civil war to be a separate issue from the ongoing crisis over the killing of journalist Jamal...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Pentagon expects to send more troops to border | Mattis...
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View ArticleMattis: No diplomatic solution on Russia arms treaty yet
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Tuesday that “diplomats are still trying” to find options on the way forward on a landmark arms control treaty that President Trump has said he will withdraw the...
View ArticleTurkish prosecutor: Khashoggi was strangled, dismembered inside Saudi consulate
A Turkish prosecutor publicly said for the first time on Wednesday that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month, adding he was...
View ArticleGOP senators press Trump to halt nuclear energy talks with Saudi Arabia
Five Republican senators are urging President Trump to suspend negotiations with Saudi Arabia on a nuclear energy agreement following the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.“We write to...
View ArticleNew US commander touts 'offensive mindset' against Taliban
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan who took over last month says he has installed a more aggressive approach in helping the Afghan military defeat the Taliban.“We are more in an offensive mindset...
View ArticleMattis on border troops: 'We don't do stunts'
Defense Secretary James Mattis on Wednesday pushed back on criticisms that the deployment of more than 5,200 service members to the U.S.-Mexico border was a political stunt from the Trump...
View ArticleUS, South Korea to decide on canceling 2019 military exercises by December
The United States and South Korea will review their joint military exercises and decide whether to suspend next year’s drills by the beginning of December, South Korea’s defense minister said...
View ArticleTrump says he may deploy 15,000 troops to border
President Trump on Wednesday said he might deploy up to 15,000 service members to the U.S. southern border to stop a "caravan" of migrants from entering the country. "As far as the caravan is...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Trump says 15,000 troops could deploy to border | Mattis...
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View ArticleWatchdog: Afghan government control of districts at lowest point since 2015
Afghan government control or influence over districts in the country is at the lowest point since a U.S. inspector general began tracking the data in 2015, the watchdog said Thursday.In its latest...
View ArticleTop Senate Armed Services Dem: Sending troops to border 'unwise,...
The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday dismissed President Trump’s decision to send thousands of active duty troops to the southern border as “unwise, unproductive” and...
View ArticleOvernight Defense: Trump defends border deployment | Claims caravan larger...
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