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TOKYO – Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), visited Japan from May 27-29, 2024 for the first time since assuming command earlier this month. Paparo met with senior Japanese officials, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Foreign Minister Yōko Kamikawa, Minister of Defense Minoru Kihara, Japan Joint Staff Chief of […]
Thomas P. Stafford, an astronaut who pioneered cooperation in space when he commanded the American capsule that linked up with a Soviet spaceship in July 1975, died on Monday in Satellite Beach, Fla. He was 93. His death, in a retirement home, was confirmed by his wife, Linda. She said he had recently been diagnosed […]
33 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested in suburban Chicago for blocking street Daniel Arkin Seven men and 26 women were arrested in a Chicago suburb yesterday after they allegedly blocked a street, sitting in a roadway “purposely blocking traffic and creative a hazard,” according to a statement from police. The Niles Police Department said in a news […]
A U.S. retaliatory strike in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killed a senior leader of a militia that U.S. officials blame for recent attacks on American personnel, the Pentagon said, following up on President Biden’s promise that the response to a slew of attacks by Shiite militias would continue. The Pentagon said the man was […]
The militia group in Iraq said one of its leaders died in the airstrike. February 7, 2024, 4:09 PM ET • 2 min read The U.S. has conducted an airstrike in Baghdad targeting a high-value target, two U.S. officials confirmed Wednesday. U.S. Central Command later said the target was a commander of the Iran-backed militia […]
FILE PHOTO: A Houthi fighter stands on the Galaxy Leader cargo ship in the Red Sea in this photo released Nov. 20, 2023. Photo shared by Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS CHRISTIANSTED, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels show no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea, the top commander of U.S. naval […]
The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Monday he is “very concerned” about increased joint military actions by China and Russia in the region By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press December 18, 2023, 8:25 AM ET • 3 min read TOKYO — The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Monday he is “very concerned” […]
“We’ve given them no reason not to continue [attacking],” he said of the Houthis. Houthi assaults on commercial shipping have increasingly drawn U.S. Navy warships into the line of fire in recent days. On Sunday, the destroyer USS Carney was involved in an hourslong firefight and shot down . . .
The commander of the Turkish navy said in a speech on Friday that Turkey can secure the Black Sea itself and does not want a US or NATO presence there. “The tensions between Georgia and Russia that began in 2008, the problems between South Ossetia and North Ossetia, the same problems in Abkhazia, the occupation […]
NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with Retired U.S. Navy admiral James Stavridis about Ukraine claiming to have killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. AILSA CHANG, HOST: On Monday, Ukraine said it had killed the commander of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in a missile strike on the naval headquarters in occupied Crimea. But earlier today, […]