Author: Anne Flaherty

United States military and NATO officials are discussing a possible plan that could be unveiled in the coming days that would provide Ukraine with much-needed aerial defense weapons, including Patriot systems, by funneling U.S. weapons through the European alliance, officials said. The idea of NATO buying weapons from the U.S. — which President Donald Trump […]

The Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to aid federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to a statement by U.S. Northern Command. The deployment is part of a broader push by the administration to ramp up deportations using active-duty troops. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump deployed some 4,000 National Guard personnel […]

The Pentagon on Thursday released an extraordinary number of details about the military’s top-secret bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities and its defense of an air base in Qatar. The unusual disclosures – including analysts briefed at secret locations, bombs dropped into ventilation shafts, and a small group of young service members left behind at a […]

The Pentagon on Wednesday sharpened its assessment of Iran’s nuclear program, declaring that Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon following the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities is “closer to two years” away. The assessment by Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, appeared to be significantly more optimistic than by U.N. inspectors at the […]

The Pentagon on Wednesday sharpened its assessment of Iran’s nuclear program, declaring that Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon following the U.S. strike on its nuclear facilities is “closer to two years” away. The assessment from Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, appeared to be significantly more optimistic than by U.N. inspectors at the […]

The U.S. military strikes President Donald Trump ordered on Iran’s nuclear facilities did not completely destroy the country’s nuclear program and likely set it back only by months, according to two people familiar with an early intelligence assessment. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about the Israel-Iran conflict, aboard Air Force One, June 24, 2025, […]

The B-2 bomber pilots and crews who helped to strike Iranian nuclear sites earlier this month are being told to keep a low profile this weekend if they take up President Donald Trump on his offer to come to the White House on Friday on the July Fourth holiday. Trump insists the pilots “obliterated” Iran’s […]

By the time President Donald Trump and MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon sat down for lunch on Thursday, the president had already approved a plan on how the U.S. might attack an Iranian nuclear facility. American diplomats and their family members were being offered military evacuations from Israel, while the military began moving aircraft and ships […]

In June 2024, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and his aides were at a Virginia military base where the service was putting on one of its live-action shows for kids and families. The event — a decades-long tradition known as the “Twilight Tattoo” — was a spectacle. Soldiers from ceremonial units reenact the […]