Over the past several months, many Trump officials have suggested that the administration could ignore court orders. In an appearance before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth refused to answer questions on whether the Trump administration would abide by future potential judicial rulings that could limit the deployment of...
The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population. President Donald Trump’s latest deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles means that there are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria,...
Watch: Police fire rubber bullets at Los Angeles protesters on Monday President Donald Trump’s administration has sent thousands more troops to Los Angeles on a fourth day of chaotic protests against immigration raids, as the unrest spread to other US cities. Some 700 US Marines have been deployed to the Los Angeles area and the...
Activists say Israeli troops have boarded a yacht trying to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. “Connection has been lost” on the Madleen, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition campaign group said on the Telegram app. It posted a photo showing people in life jackets sitting with their hands up. The report could not be independently...
On June 3, South Korea will conclude a snap election prompted by the impeachment of former president Yoon Seok-yeol on insurrection charges for a failed coup. The strong frontrunner in the race is Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party pro-peace candidate. While Lee’s election could open the window for peace talks, progressives must learn from the...
The BBC was given rare access to an operation by French troops, part of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon known as Unifil, as they searched for positions that were used by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah to carry out attacks against Israel. As part of a ceasefire reached in November that ended 13 months...
Germany has made its first permanent foreign military deployment since World War Two, sending troops to Lithuania’s eastern flank. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and defence secretary Boris Pistorius attended an inauguration ceremony for the deployment, in the company of Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda, in the country’s capital city of Vilnius. “Peace in Europe has been...
Has the tide turned against the Left — and toward reality? Especially when it comes to biological reality rather than the feelz? Today’s big news from the Supreme Court suggests that momentum is building, at least in the use of executive authority to define policy. Without comment — or much, anyway — the court reinstated the...
North Korea has for the first time confirmed that it sent troops to fight for Russia against Ukraine. In a report on state news agency KCNA, Pyongyang’s military claimed its soldiers helped Russian forces “completely liberate” the Kursk border region, according to an order given by leader Kim Jong Un. It comes just days after...
Israel’s military has admitted killing a United Nations (UN) worker with tank fire, having previously denied responsibility, in an incident in the Gaza Strip last month. After a UN staff member was killed when a UN compound in Deir al-Balah was damaged on 19 March, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had not struck...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his troops are active in Russia’s Belgorod region. “We continue to carry out active operations in the border areas on enemy territory, and that is absolutely just – war must return to where it came from,” he said on Monday. His comments also...