President Donald Trump said Friday he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general βto stop a war,β not start one, but in the tense aftermath the Pentagon braced for retaliation by sending more troops to the Middle East. Democrats complained that Trump hadnβt consulted Congress, and some worried that the strike made war more likely.
The senior U.S. Senator from North Carolina Richard Burr who is also the chairman of Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a statement on the death of Iran's Qassem Soleimani.
Iran vowed βharsh retaliationβ for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdadβs airport that killed a top Iranian general who had been the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared in the wake of the targeted killing.
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After this week's impeachment vote, debate will continue over a possible Senate trial. Also, this week voting rights are back in the spotlight after a ruling by a circuit court judge in Wisconsin. And in the UK, a landslide victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party.
Teen activist Greta Thunberg says she was βa bit surprisedβ to be named Timeβs Person of the Year, despite becoming the figurehead of a global youth movement pressing for faster action climate change.
Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris has ended her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to a campaign official.
China said Monday it will suspend U.S. military ship and aircraft visits to Hong Kong and sanction several American pro-democracy and human rights groups in retaliation for the signing into law of legislation supporting anti-government protests in the semi-autonomous territory.
Police say the stabbings and shooting at London Bridge has been declared a βterrorist incidentβ and that a man who was wearing a hoax explosive vest, was shot dead.
Israelβs attorney general on Thursday formally charged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a series of corruption cases, throwing the countryβs paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatening the long-time leaderβs grip on power.
The British band Coldplay has decided not to launch a global tour because of environmental concerns.
The U.S. Embassy in Berlin unveiled a statue of Ronald Reagan on Friday at a site overlooking the location of the former presidentβs iconic speech imploring the Soviet Union to remove the Berlin Wall.
There was a time when the violence of Mexicoβs 2006-2012 drug war shocked Americans, but barely touched them. This time around β like everything else about the countryβs renewed cartel conflict β itβs worse.
Drug cartel gunmen ambushed three SUVs along a dirt road, slaughtering six children and three women β all U.S. citizens living in northern Mexico β in a grisly attack that left one vehicle a burned-out, bullet-riddled hulk, authorities said Tuesday.
The head of U.S. Central Command has provided some more information about the military working dog that was injured in the raid on the compound of the leader of the Islamic State group.
From his post as a teenage SS private in a watchtower in Nazi Germanyβs Stutthof concentration camp, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber.
President Donald Trumpβs sudden decision to pull back U.S. troops from northern Syria drew quick criticism Monday from some of his closest allies in Congress as well as Kurdish fighters who would essentially be abandoned to face a likely Turkish assault after fighting alongside American forces against the Islamic State.
Young people and politics. This week, a 16-year-old Swedish activist has been the center of the climate change debate.
The Pentagon on Friday announced it will deploy additional U.S. troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as President Donald Trump has at least for now put off any immediate military strike on Iran in response to the attack on the Saudi oil industry.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called the attack on Saudi Arabiaβs oil installations an βact of warβ against the kingdom by Iran, as the Saudis displayed missile and drone wreckage and cited other evidence they said shows the raid was βunquestionably sponsored by Iran.β
