Secretary of State at the Polish Defence Ministry Pawel Zalewski has confirmed that up to nine MiG-29 fighters being retired from the Polish Air Force will be transferred as aid to the Ukrainain Air Force. He noted that the process has received full political approval, with the Polish and Ukrainian defence authorities currently coordinating over issues including theaircraft’s condition, logistics, and maintenance planning.
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National Guard troops will continue to be in Washington, D.C. through the end of the year, after the Trump administration extended their deployment.
CNN first reported the news, citing government officials, with the Washington Post and ABC News confirming. It’s the second major extension of deployment orders for troops in the capital; in October the orders were extended the first time and expected to end in February. Currently more than 2,600 National Guard troops, from the District of Columbia and nearly a dozen states, are active in the capital after being called up in August.
The last American troops at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad Air Base have left after a months-long drawdown, Iraq’s defense ministry announced on Saturday.
In a statement, the ministry said that Iraq’s army fully took control of the major base in the country’s western Anbar Province. Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Abdul Amir Rashid Yarallah was on hand for the final withdrawal. The withdrawal marks the final part of a drawdown that got extended this past fall due to concerns of a “security vacuum” in Syria.
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CDM/AFP recently reported on President Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell violent protests in Minnesota over ICE raids. We have also reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent is working on ‘following the money’ behind the demonstrations.
Today, word comes the Pentagon has put troops on alert for possible deployment in that scenario.
Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials, reported ABC News.
For more than three quarters of a century, reports of strange objects in the sky have unsettled pilots, challenged scientists, and tested the credibility of governments.
What began in the late 1940s as scattered sightings of so-called flying saucers has evolved into a modern national security issue discussed openly in Congress under the term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP. Two men, separated by generations but united by military service and a refusal to accept official dismissals, played defining roles in that transformation. Maj. Donald E.
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British and Argentinian Falklands veterans are
The Japanese government Board of Audit has revealed that military equipment worth approximately 1.1 trillion yen ($6.9 billion) purchased from the United States under the Foreign Military Sales program more than five years ago has yet to be delivered delivered to the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Among contracts signed since Fiscal Year 2018, 118 procurement cases remained incomplete far beyond their original delivery schedules, primarily due to issues with manufacturers in the United States.
The United States Army has confirmed that it failed to meet its end-of-2025 deployment target for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program, otherwise known as theDark Eagle, despite the unit assigned to operate the system already being trained and ready. This follows prior delays in 2023 and 2024, making this the third major recent deadline to have been missedby the program. The missile that has been under development since 2018, and has already received more than $12 billion in funding. It is intended to provide the U.S.
The lawsuit accuses the U.S. military of enforcing a “two-part strategy” to deny virtually all religious accommodation requests from service members and recruits. CHD alleges the military’s policy for granting religious exemptions to recruits is “ambiguous.” For acting service members, the process for obtaining a religious exemption from vaccines is a “sham” and “largely theater.”
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