The recent drone attack on Moscow by suspected Ukrainian forces has sparked a heated exchange of accusations and threats between Vladimir Putin’s regime and Ukrainian officials. Putin and his allies have accused Kyiv of attempting to frighten Russian citizens with what they call “increasingly reckless behavior,” conveniently overlooking Russia’s own relentless airstrikes on... 

President Donald Trump reportedly favored bombing Russian and Iranian targets in Syria, before Pentagon chief James Mattis talked the US leader out of it. Trump discussed three military options for Syria last week with his revamped national security team, led by Bush-era hawk John Bolton, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing sources familiar with White House decision-making. The least... 

At least 69 people have been killed and dozens of others sustained injuries in attacks by Saudi Arabia on Yemen. According to local media outlets, at least 40 Yemeni soldiers were killed in Saudi air strikes on the Yemeni military headquarters of al-Aber in the Yemeni central province of Hadramout early on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia also targeted a market in the district of Kitaf wa Al Boqe’e in the... 

US President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the Oval Office of the White House on August 8, 2014 in Washington, DC after US jets struck ISIL positions in northern Iraq. The Obama administration is reportedly preparing to begin air strikes on Syrian territory without the consent of the Syrian government. The pretext is the rapidly expanding US war on ISIL, but in... 

Over a decade after the US and UK invaded Iraq in 2003, the military allies have created a joint ‘counter-terrorist’ team to send to the country. British officers are already on their way “to prepare for possible air strikes,” The Sunday Times reports. “SAS [Special Air Service of the British Army] officers were on their way to Iraq this weekend to prepare the ground for possible... 

Self-defense squads have reportedly taken down at least two Ukrainian army helicopters, with one pilot confirmed dead. Another pilot is being operated on, and the fate of the others is currently unknown. There was no evidence of any wreckage. The Ukrainian government claimed one of them was brought down by a surface-to-air missile. That hasn’t been verified yet, but U.S. sources are treating... 

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber aircraft A delegation from Syrian opposition is reportedly in talks with US officials over the targets they want to attack to weaken the Syrian government and the arms they want America to provide to do it. A “Libya lite” operation in Syria may be imminent. The unnamed US official reportedly said that “the intervention will happen. It is not a question of ‘if’...