Month: October 2019

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon, two U.S. officials said on Thursday, two days after the resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri. The State Department told Congress on Thursday that the White House budget office and National Security Council had decided to withhold […]

Who said the SAS feed only on enemy sentries and terrorists? Rowdy prisoners can occasionally form part of their diet as well. Scotland—1987. 30 years ago, a prison riot in Peterhead had turned ugly.  50 inmates had managed to take control of D-wing.  The riot had begun by the stabbing of an officer, but it had quickly escalated in […]

The ISIS defector who helped the U.S. zero in on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be getting a piece of the $25 million reward that was placed on the terror leader’s head, according to a new report in The Washington Post. The informant’s “detailed knowledge of Baghdadi’s whereabouts as well as the room-by-room layout of his […]

David Shulkin ran the nation’s largest health system under two presidents. As secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, he oversaw a hospital empire that served nine million veterans and employed 135,000 people. Under Shulkin’s leadership, the VA reduced wait times for health care, improved the appeals process for veterans seeking disability benefits, focused on […]

Michael Thornton was a Navy SEAL and was awarded the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the war in Vietnam. He was decorated for saving the life of his senior officer, Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris, who also a recipient of the Medal of Honor in another combat action in […]

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses […]

The Navy’s beleaguered USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier may not have working weapons elevators, but it’s certainly got some moves. The $13 billion supercarrier on Wednesday returned to Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia after several days of sea trials, a major step for a much-hyped carrier that just spent 15 months undergoing post-shakedown repairs […]

The Air Force has agreed to purchase 478 more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters from Lockheed Martin for an estimated $34 billion. This announcement represents a reduction in cost for the most advanced fighter on the planet and is sure to reignite debate about the proper makeup of America’s fighter forces. Last year, the U.S. Air […]