Just a couple of days after two oil tankers were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, some U.S. allies in Europe have been reluctant to join the U.S. government in blaming Iran outright. Following the attacks, the Pentagon released a video which they claim depicts an Iranian patrol boat full of Revolutionary Guard soldiers removing a mine from the side of one of the targeted boats in last week’s tanker... 

President Donald Trump is sending 1,000 additional US troops to the Middle East as several UN officials told the Hebrew-language only Israeli newspaper Maariv that the US “plans to carry out a tactical assault on Iran in response to the tanker attack in the Persian Gulf on Thursday.” From ABC News: The United States is sending 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East, amid rising tensions between... 

Standing under an oversized sign for a village his temporary government has no authority to build, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu took his friendship with Donald Trump to a new level by inaugurating Trump Heights in the Golan. “It is a historic day,” said Israel’s prime minister, standing next to US ambassador David Friedman. “Many years have passed since a new settlement was established in... 

Wow this country is simply out of control then they go around calling everyone “rogue states” well now look who is behaving as the rogue state threatening everyone with wars left and right, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, Syria and others. Now those lunatics go as far as threatening to sabotage Russia’s power grid. Sorry guys but this behavior is the textbook definition of a terrorist... 

Russia says a new US military deployment to Poland announced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday would force Moscow to take retaliatory steps. Trump told Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday that he had decided to send an additional 1,000 troops to Poland to join 4,000 forces already there. The US will also send a squadron of MQ-9 Reaper Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance drones... 

The warning comes on the heels of US accusations that Iran was behind the attacks on two Japanese oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on 13 June – just one month after a similar incident near Fujairah was likewise blamed on the Islamic Republic. The Iranian mission to the United Nations has urged the United States and its allies in the Middle East to “stop warmongering” and false flag... 

Last month we here at the EUTimes investigated the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and concluded that it was most likely an inside job. Coincidentally or not, shortly after that HBO announced a series of episodes about Chernobyl. Now after HBO’s Chernobyl documentary, Russia announces their own Chernobyl documentary, dissatisfied by the US documentary which portrays them in a negative light. In their... 

None of the reporting on this, so far, asked the question that screams out. Why would Jewish leaders leak pessimistic statements like this? And to that we could add the age old question, why now? With Pompeo’s negative statements on the record, even via a leak, it reflects that the Trump team is not four-square on the plan. Could Pompeo have engineered this leak caper to give himself cover for when... 

President Donald Trump wants Twitter to grant amnesty to the handful of conservative pundits who have been banned from the platform in recent months. “Twitter should let the banned Conservative Voices back onto their platform, without restriction. It’s called Freedom of Speech, remember. You are making a Giant Mistake!” Trump wrote in a tweet Sunday. His post comes amid speculation that his... 

According to TrumpMedia, The Donald spanked Mexico over his knee this past week in the Tariff Trade War whereby he would begin charging Americans a tariff/tax maxing at 25% on all products coming from Mexico if Mexico did NOT stop Central Americans from leaving their countries and coming to USA. According to TrumpMedia, Mexico capitulated on every point and then some. His mouthpiece Hannity was ecstatic!... 

Tehran’s military displayed a brand-new indigenous air defense missile system, capable of tracking and shooting down six targets at the same time. The weapon was rolled out amid growing tensions around the Persian Gulf. Iran unveiled its new domestically-designed air defense missile system Khordad 15 on Sunday. Equipped with long-range Sayyad 3 missiles, it can shoot down enemy jets and combat drones... 

Poland’s President Duda bestowed a prestigious state honor Tuesday on an English philosopher for his contributions to Poland’s anti-communist struggle in the 1980s: President Andrzej Duda presented Sir Roger Scruton with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, the highest award that can be given to a non-Pole. In bestowing the award, Duda spoke of the influence Scruton’s... 

By CCN: When you’ve got a target on your back, the best strategy is to give your enemy more arrows. At least, that’s what Google seems to think. Just days after the government launched its antitrust crackdown against the tech titans, Google decided to put more blood in the water. It announced that it is buying fast-growing cloud data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion. In December, Looker... 

A Hungarian Jewish group that detects and fights antisemitism announced on Wednesday that it was creating a security service to monitor Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter: “To prevent anti-Semitic atrocities, the Foundation for Action and Defense decided to create a kind of ‘self-organized security service,’ ” posted the organization on its Facebook page. Known by its initials in Hungarian,... 

Swedish Education Minister Anna Ekström has suggested that religious schools are “bad for society” and that stopping them was essential for integration. The Swedish government intends to stop the future establishment of private charter schools, as a means of indicating that it is a secular state. As a result of a consensus between the ruling left-of-the-centre red-green coalition and its junior...