Iran is ready to engage with the US at talks on Saturday over its nuclear programme “with a view to seal a deal”, its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. But US President Donald Trump must first agree there can be no “military option”, Araghchi said, and added that Iran would “never accept coercion”. He...
“Trump plans on liquidating Medicaid and SNAP benefits while giving the Pentagon a trillion dollars,” wrote one critic. President Donald Trump on Monday publicly backed an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion for the U.S. military as his administration rushed ahead with a destructive tariff scheme that amounts to a major tax increase on American...
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says the military will expand its operation in Gaza and seize “large areas” of the territory. In a statement on Wednesday, Katz said the expanded operation aimed to “destroy and clear the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure”. Seized areas would be “incorporated into Israeli security zones”, he said. He...
President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18-30, Russia’s highest number of conscripts since 2011, as the country moves to expand the size of its military. The spring call-up for a year’s military service came several months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million...
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Watch: Key reactions to reports of a leaked group chat involving Trump officials Washington DC is still digesting a serious security breach at the heart of the Trump administration. It’s the story of how a journalist – the Atlantic magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg – was added to a Signal platform messaging group which apparently included Vice-President...
The court filing signals a shift from targeting openly trans troops to potentially investigating those who are closeted. According to a newly filed document in Talbott v. Trump — the court case that will determine whether transgender people can continue to serve in the U.S. military — the military now plans to ask all service...
Hattie McCann & George Thorpe BBC News, Devon BBC Royal Marines scaled Plymouth’s Royal Citadel wall as part of a launch event for Armed Forces Day 2025 A large military exercise involving high-speed boats and Royal Marines scaling walls has helped mark an upcoming celebration. The event was part of a launch party for Armed...
Progressive lawmakers and rights groups reissued their urgent demands for an arms embargo to Israel on Tuesday, following a horrific Israeli assault on Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians. The attacks came after the Israeli military had slowed its massacres for weeks under the ceasefire agreement. “The Israeli apartheid regime has resumed its genocide, carrying...