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Kyiv, Ukraine CNN — Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike Ukraine again with a new nuclear-capable ballistic missile following Moscow’s latest widespread attack on critical energy infrastructure. More than a million households in Ukraine were left without power following the overnight bombardment, authorities in the country said Thursday. It’s Russia’s 11th large-scale assault […]
<!– –> A U.S. service member watches a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter land in northeast Syria on Oct. 1, 2024. (Emma Scearce/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — U.S. forces attacked nine Iran-backed targets in Syria over the weekend in response to two strikes on U.S. troops, the Pentagon said Tuesday. “These [U.S.] strikes will degrade the Iranian-backed […]
Source: Carnegie The September 11 terrorist attacks abruptly shifted the U.S. immigration debate from liberalizing policy with Mexico to deep misgivings about border controls. To combat terrorism, the United States must strengthen the weak links in its immigration system. This effort should concentrate on prevention by improving visa screening and admission decisions, the country’s first […]
Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Guardian Design; Source images by PM Images/PrasongTakham via Getty Images Attacks targeting American public schools over LGBTQ+ rights and education about race and racism cost those schools an estimated $3.2bn in the 2023-24 school year, according to a new report by education professors from four major American universities. The study is believed to […]
United States envoy Amos Hochstein says Washington is looking to end the war in Lebanon “as soon as possible”, stressing that the US is seeking a lasting resolution to the crisis without providing many details about the diplomatic push. After holding talks in Beirut on Monday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Hochstein suggested that ceasefire […]
After the FBI arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma planning an election day shooting on behalf of the Islamic State, the terrorist organization re-entered what has become one of the most chaotic news cycles leading up to a November vote. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City admitted to investigators he and a co-conspirator expected […]
The US has carried out B-2 stealth bomber strikes on Houthi underground weapons facilities in Yemen for the first time, in an escalation that appears in part to be a warning to the movement’s backers in Tehran. Local television in Houthi-run areas of the country reported 15 strikes hit five sites near the capital, Sana’a, […]
The US has carried out a round of strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, targeting five underground weapons storage facilities using B-2 stealth bombers. Here’s what you need to know about the attack: Who are the Houthis and why is the US attacking them? The Houthis are part of an Iran-backed alliance of militant groups in the […]
Tel Aviv — Just hours after the Biden administration warned Israel over the expanding scope and scale of its military strikes on Lebanon’s capital, the Israeli military said its fighter jets flew to the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh and struck an underground Hezbollah weapons cache. Dahiyeh, considered a stronghold of the Iran-backed, U.S. and […]
Getty Images Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon is about to end its second week, as Israel’s war has already entered its second year. Appeals for a ceasefire have increased following an air strike in Beirut on Thursday night, and the wounding on Friday, for the second day running, of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon by […]