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The U.S. military said on Sunday that a ship had set sail carrying equipment to build a floating pier on Gaza’s coast, part of a Biden administration effort to deliver aid to the enclave by sea and help ease its hunger crisis. The administration’s plan for a pier and causeway, announced last week, could eventually […]
By Tiffany Wertheimer BBC News 10 March 2024 Updated 42 minutes ago Image source, US Central Command Image caption, The General Frank S Besson is carrying the first load of equipment to build a floating harbour A US military ship is sailing towards the Middle East, carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the […]
The United States has a history of using its military to get food, water and other humanitarian relief to civilians during wars or natural disasters. The walls of the Pentagon are decorated with photographs of such operations in Haiti, Liberia, Indonesia and countless other countries. But it is rare for the United States to try […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even before President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address the plans for providing aid to Gaza by sea, the Army’s 7th Transportation Brigade and other units were scrambling to pull equipment together. They received their orders before the speech: Build
The US military has lifted its flight ban on V-22 Osprey aircraft after a deadly crash in Japan killed eight service members last fall, paving the way for the tilt rotorcraft to fly again for the first time in three months. The decision comes even as the investigation into that crash and a separate deadly […]
Announcement to be made at State of the Union address as Biden faces outrage over steadfast support for Israel. United States President Joe Biden will announce a plan to create a new port in Gaza to increase deliveries of humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged enclave, senior US officials told reporters. The officials said Biden will […]
During his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden will announce an “emergency” military mission to construct a port in the Mediterranean Sea on Gaza’s coast to get humanitarian aid in, senior officials said Thursday. The port will be able to receive “large ships carrying food, water, medicine, and temporary shelters,” a senior White […]
U.S. military C-130 cargo planes on Saturday dropped food in pallets over Gaza, three U.S. officials said, two days after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. U.S. Central Command and the Royal Jordanian Air Force conducted a combined […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia makes battlefield advances and Ukrainian soldiers run short on ammunition, U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for sending military aid to Kyiv, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Democrats are more likely to say the U.S. government […]
Illustration: Yoshi Sodeoka for Bloomberg Businessweek Businessweek | The Big Take US military operators started out skeptical about AI, but now they are the ones developing and using Project Maven to identify targets on the battlefield. February 28, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC US military operators started out skeptical about AI, but now they are the […]