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President Donald Trump defended the war in Iran and said it will be over "soon" during his Veterans Day address on Wednesday. Trump made the statement while speaking to a crowd of veterans and their families at Arlington National Cemetery. He highlighted the 1983 Iran-backed bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and argued that Iran has been at war with the U.S. for decades. "America did not start a war with Iran. Iran has been waging war on America since 1979. They should have been taken care of a long time ago," Trump said. "And it was...

Military officials from China and the United States met at a ceremony in Chengdu, China on Tuesday for the ceremonial return of the remains of American airmen who were killed during Himalayan supply missions in World War II. The ceremony was the culmination of decades of effort by American and Chinese officials to locate all of the air crews who died while flying “The Hump,” a supply route from India to southwestern China that was crucial for Chinese and American forces fighting against Imperial Japan. Japanese forces were able to cut off the land supply routes through Burma in the...

France said on November 9 that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was responsible for a cyberattack last month that disrupted refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Paris had summoned Iran’s ambassador and would seek European-level sanctions against those judged responsible. The Associated Press and ABC News Australia reported the announcement.French authorities attributed the October 11-12 operation to Shahid Kaveh, which officials described as an offensive cyber unit linked to the Revolutionary Guards’ electronic and cyber apparatus. The attack remotely altered refrigeration controls, forcing supermarkets to discard spoiled food; French reporting said roughly 700...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. U.S. officials concluded in recent weeks that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had reached a more advanced stage, based in part on intelligence about threats to Mr. Bessent, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive information. Since August, Mr. Bessent has led an economic pressure campaign meant to isolate Iran financially through tougher sanctions and restrictions on trade routes. That...

Thousands of people have marched through central Warsaw to mark Poland’s Independence Day amid heightened security following a deadly mass shooting in Krakow and political tensions over a constitutional crisis. The rally in the capital has in previous years attracted far-right demonstrators and has been blighted by violence. But officials have not so far reported any major disturbances at Wednesday's event. Organizers estimated that turnout could have reached up to 1 million people, but Warsaw's municipal public safety agency put attendance at up to 250,000. City Hall last year put turnout at around 100,000, while organizers claimed it was...

Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, has died at the age of 66, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. “An outstanding diplomat, experienced leader, kind colleague and mentor has passed away,” the ministry said in a brief statement, describing the late ambassador as a “professional of the highest order and a brilliant expert on American affairs.” It did not disclose the cause of Darchiev’s death. Darchiev replaced Anatoly Antonov as ambassador to the United States in early 2025 amid a sudden thaw in U.S.-Russia relations following President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary vowed Wednesday that Tehran would not allow the removal of "even a single particle of enriched nuclear material" from the country, casting doubt on diplomatic efforts as the U.S. has long sought a peace deal that would see Iran give up its enriched uranium.President Trump has argued that he needed to launch the war with Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear weapon, which the regime has always denied any intention of doing. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Tuesday that "crazy Islamists in Tehran will never ever...

(Excerpted) What the polls told us going into the election was not that Americans were inalterably opposed to war with Iran; they were opposed to NOT WINNING a war with Iran. As General George S. Patton famously said in a speech to his troops during World War II, “Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time.” Donald Trump’s entire public persona was built around winning: The Art of the Deal, The Art of the Comeback, and The Apprentice were all about Donald Trump the winner. And right now, despite all the...

Iran attacked an Omani island base on Tuesday that it claimed was helping the US conduct its military escorts for tankers along the Strait of Hormuz, state media reported.The Iranian military carried out a strike on Didamar, a small, rocky outcropping located at the entry of the Persian Gulf outfitted with navigational equipment.Tehran claimed the personnel at the island “were helping the flow of oil smuggling by the enemy,” with Omani officials confirming that a loud explosion was detected at the base that has helped sailors navigate the waters since the early 1900s.Viral video circulation on social media showed black...

US President Donald Trump said Ukraine would likely emerge from the war with Russia in a "little bit different shape," without specifying what changes he expected to the country's territory or borders. In an interview with CBS News' 60 Minutes, Trump was asked whether he expected the war to end with Ukraine remaining free and independent. "I think we're going to have it done, and I think it's going to happen, and they're going to end up with a little bit different shape [for] Ukraine," he replied.…..

The 41-year-old was detained near Gloucester, home to the U.K.’s intelligence and cybersecurity agency LONDON—A member of the U.S. Army has been arrested by British counterterrorism police, who said they worked closely with the U.S. military and FBI, over allegations of spying for Russia.The 41-year-old man was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday. The area is home to Britain’s GCHQ, the country’s intelligence and cybersecurity agency, and the NATO Allied Rapid Reaction Corps. “This significant arrest and investigation is a result of close collaboration between U.K. and U.S. authorities. The allegations are serious and our investigation is very much ongoing,” said...

President Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the United States had obtained sensitive intelligence showing that Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy, people with knowledge of the matter said.The message was delivered by Marco Rubio, his secretary of state and national security adviser, shortly before the Nvidia leader, Jensen Huang, joined the presidential trip to Beijing at Mr. Trump’s invitation. It marked at least the second time in seven months that the president had been told of intelligence about Mr. Huang’s involvement...

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Monday insisted the United States “surrender” to Iran’s demands for unconditional concessions to allow for peace negotiations to begin. “The war on Iran has already wrecked the U.S. government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler,” Rezaei sneered in a Monday night post on social media platform X. “FOLD YOUR HAND. STOP manufacturing FAKE NEWS about imaginary talks. Stop denying the West Asian NEW ORDER,” he wrote. “Time to SURRENDER to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out,” he demanded. Rezaei’s tirade was...

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume building a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas. The justices voted 8-1 on Monday to lift a federal judge’s order that had stopped construction across the sector for more than a month. The unsigned five-page decision said a 1996 immigration law gives the Homeland Security secretary wide room to waive environmental rules and that Congress wrote it to favor fast construction over the harm the challengers described. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only one who said she would have turned the administration down. She did...

The United States will spurn a UN meeting on Tuesday where its human rights record under President Donald Trump was due to be examined, drawing criticism from rights groups who say violations have surged to levels not seen in decades. Washington disengaged from the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council last year, citing an anti-Israel bias, and this is the second year in a row that it has skipped its own review a process that even authoritarian regime take part in. The US no-show will likely mean the event is postponed until January, according to a draft UN document and diplomats....

On Monday’s broadcast of C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal Primetime,” President Donald Trump said that he hasn’t launched further strikes on Iran because Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait don’t want to, and “I’d like to do it this way, too.” Trump said, “[N]ow it’s a question of, I could do it quickly or not. The reason I’m doing it this way is because, in speaking with Qatar — as you know, the prime minister was in the Oval Office today — in speaking to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, basically the neighbors — who were attacked pretty...

"The Catholic University of Lublin has terminated the employment contract of Dr. Katarzyna Pejda with immediate effect."... "The matter was highlighted on social media by Confederation activist Rafał Mekler. Dr. Pejda, following the discovery of three bodies in the home of the perpetrator of the Krakow shooting, wrote on Facebook: "Three votes less for the Confederation." When two internet users criticized the comment, she replied: "Yes, seriously. The tragedy occurred in Krakow, not in the nest that raised this rat." The posts were later deleted."

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has tied Berlin's approval of the 2028-2034 EU budget to a commitment from all member states to provide financial support to Ukraine in 2027 and beyond. Source: European Pravda, citing the Financial Times Details: In a letter to European Council President António Costa, Merz made Germany's support for the bloc's 2028-2034 budget conditional on all EU countries agreeing to fund Ukraine, which faces a €70 billion funding gap next year. Quote from Merz: "A collective commitment that all of us, without exception, will contribute fairly to closing [Ukraine's financing] gap is an essential prerequisite for resolving...

The U.S. military moved nine Stratotanker refueling planes from a base in England to facilities in Germany and Spain on Monday, and The Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying they had been repositioned due to a threat from Iran. It is unclear whether the threat was imminent or general, the sources told the newspaper. CBS News Confirmed found public aircraft tracking data showing 10 KC-135 Stratotankers were moved from Royal Air Force Base Mildenhall, in southeast England to other locations. One landed at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland, while four went to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany and one...

Under the terms of a new defense agreement between Greenland, Denmark and the United States, Greenland remains a self-governed territory of Denmark with the right to declare its independence in the future. The new trilateral agreement doesn’t go as far as giving Greenland to the U.S. Primarily, it indefinitely allows the U.S. to expand its military presence in Greenland and prevents U.S. adversaries from doing the same. But as we’ve written, the previously existing defense framework already gave the U.S. great latitude to expand military operations in Greenland. Under the new deal, activities at the U.S. base in Greenland, renamed...