Inside the debt-ceiling deal, Republicans successfully got something that they really wanted. Stronger work requirements, for people receiving federal aid. For years, the two sides have disagreed about work requirements. We take a closer look. The head of the U.S. Border Patrol Raul Ortiz is retiring. Find out when he plans to depart after over…

Tehran has officially blamed Israel for a drone strike last week that damaged a military facility in the Iranian city of Isfahan. “Preliminary investigations suggest that the Israeli regime was responsible for this attempted act of aggression,” Saeed Iravani, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, said on Feb. 2. In a statement delivered to the…

The U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Feb. 9 warned U.S. citizens of “reports of a possible missile or drone strike” over Abu Dhabi as the UAE blamed an overnight blast on a gas cylinder explosion. Earlier on Wednesday, UAE’s state news agency had reported that Abu Dhabi civil defense teams put…

NAIROBI, Kenya—An Ethiopian drone strike has killed 17 civilians in the country’s Tigray region on the day that President Joe Biden during a call with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed expressed concern about such attacks in the ongoing war, local authorities say. A report by the zonal administration said women at a flour-grinding mill made up…

Commentary Beijing has called a U.S. drone strike that killed civilians in Afghanistan an “atrocity,” but this is a manipulative and hypocritical tactic that ignores far worse atrocities like the Tiananmen Square massacre. The Chinese communists are expert manipulators with their words and the way they interact on the international stage. The most recent example…

U.S. military personnel involved in the August drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed 10 civilians will not be disciplined, defense officials said on Monday. John Kirby, chief Pentagon spokesman, said on Monday that based on the findings of an independent probe released last month, no recommendations were made for discipline. The review was endorsed…

An investigation into a United States’ airstrike that killed 10 Afghan civilians has found that no war crime was committed in carrying out the attack, a top military official said Nov. 3. The probe into the Aug. 29 airstrike near the Kabul International Airport was directed by the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austen, and carried…

A U.S. airstrike in northwest Syria has killed a senior al-Qaeda leader on Friday, the U.S. Central Command announced in a release. U.S. Army Maj. John Rigsbee, a CENTCOM spokesperson, said Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed in the vicinity of Suluk in northwest Syria. The strike was conducted using an MQ-9 aircraft—an armed, remotely piloted aircraft….

France is recalling its ambassadors from the U.S. and Australia in reaction to a nuclear submarine deal between the two nations, the Pentagon admits a “tragic mistake” drone strike in Kabul killed innocent Afghans rather than terrorists, and the Mayor of Del Rio, Texas declares a local state of emergency as illegal immigrants continue to pour across the border.

The Pentagon confirmed on Saturday that two “high-profile” ISIS-K terrorist group members were killed in Afghanistan during a U.S.-led counter-terrorism drone attack. “Yesterday, U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner and facilitator,” Major General William Taylor said at an Aug. 28 news conference. “I can confirm now that two high-profile…