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The United States will reduce the number of troops it has deployed in Syria from around 2,000 to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said on Friday. “Today the secretary of defense directed the consolidation of US forces in Syria… to select locations,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the US footprint in Syria down to less than 1,000 US forces in the coming months,” he said. Stressing that in the last 10 years, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS has made “major gains,” Parnell said US Central…
The United States will reduce the number of troops it has deployed in Syria from around 2,000 to less than 1,000 in the coming months, the Pentagon said on Friday. “Today the secretary of defense directed the consolidation of US forces in Syria… to select locations,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement. “This deliberate and conditions-based process will bring the US footprint in Syria down to less than 1,000 US forces in the coming months,” he said. Stressing that in the last 10 years, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS has made “major gains,” Parnell said US Central…
Ukraine and the US signed a memorandum Thursday that lays the groundwork for a future economic partnership and cooperation on mineral development, said Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. “We are happy to announce the signing, with our American partners, of a Memorandum of Intent,” Svyrydenko wrote on X. She said the agreement paves the way for an economic partnership agreement and the creation of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine. According to Svyrydenko, negotiating teams from the two countries recently concluded a fresh round of technical talks in Washington. The next steps include finalizing the text of the…
A Chinese satellite company linked to its military is supplying the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen with imagery to target US warships, according to American officials in a report from the Financial Times. The Trump administration has repeatedly warned Beijing that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. (CGSTL), a commercial group with ties to the People’s Liberation Army, is providing the Houthis with the intelligence, said officials. “The United States has raised our concerns privately numerous times to the Chinese government on Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd’s role in supporting the Houthis in order to get Beijing to take…
A Chinese satellite company linked to its military is supplying the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen with imagery to target US warships, according to American officials in a report from the Financial Times. The Trump administration has repeatedly warned Beijing that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. (CGSTL), a commercial group with ties to the People’s Liberation Army, is providing the Houthis with the intelligence, said officials. “The United States has raised our concerns privately numerous times to the Chinese government on Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd’s role in supporting the Houthis in order to get Beijing to take…
A Chinese satellite company linked to its military is supplying the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen with imagery to target US warships, according to American officials in a report from the Financial Times. The Trump administration has repeatedly warned Beijing that Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd. (CGSTL), a commercial group with ties to the People’s Liberation Army, is providing the Houthis with the intelligence, said officials. “The United States has raised our concerns privately numerous times to the Chinese government on Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co Ltd’s role in supporting the Houthis in order to get Beijing to take…
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk on Wednesday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev. The comments came as Russia and the United States forged closer ties under President Donald Trump’s administration, of which billionaire SpaceX founder Musk is a key figure. “You know, there’s a man — he lives in the States — Musk, who, you could say, raves about Mars,” Putin told students on a visit to Bauman University, a Moscow college that specialises in science and engineering. “These are the kind of people who don’t often appear in…
California became the first US state on Wednesday to sue President Donald Trump because of his use of tariffs. “Today, I announced a lawsuit on behalf of the State of California, suing the Trump administration,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a video after filing the lawsuit in federal court that targeted Trump’s use of the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose tariffs without congressional approval. “California is the largest manufacturing state in our union, one of the largest trading partners around the globe. No state will be impacted more than the State of California, as it relates to…
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Harvard University could lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity after the school rejected demands from his administration. “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting “Sickness?” he said in a post on Truth Social. In a letter to students and faculty, Harvard president Alan Garber had vowed to defy the government, insisting that the school would not “negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights.” Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism…
An agreement with the US on a peace deal in Ukraine is “not easy,” the Russian foreign minister said, as Moscow and Washington continue contacts to find a settlement to the war, which has been ongoing for over three years. “The key components of the settlement are not easy to agree on. They are being discussed,” Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the local Kommersant newspaper published late Monday, in response to a question on whether Russia and the US formulated the key parameters of a future comprehensive deal on Ukraine. Recalling that Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined Moscow’s…