Pompeo defends strike on Iranian general amid scrutiny over security threat
Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike last week. January 7, 2020, 8:03 PM 6 min read The Trump administration is facing scrutiny over its claim…
Pentagon expects to deploy troops to Mideast after Iraqi protesters assault US embassy, torch guardhouse to protest airstrikes
The Pentagon expects to send additional U.S. troops to the Middle East after hundreds of protesters, fomented by pro-Iranian militias and seemingly permitted by Iraqi security forces, attempted to storm…
Bill Taylor, top US diplomat in Ukraine, to depart post ahead of Mike Pompeo’s visit
Taylor’s term was temporary, but his departure comes after Trump attacks. December 18, 2019, 1:17 AM 7 min read The veteran U.S. diplomat who was a key witness in impeachment…
Trump continues to attack Marie Yovanovitch, saying she was ‘not an angel’
President Donald Trump, in a phone interview with “Fox in Friends” Friday morning continued his attacks on former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. Interested in Impeachment Inquiry? Add Impeachment…
Key takeaways from the impeachment hearings on day 4 of public testimony
Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, was President Donald Trump‘s handpicked dealmaker on Ukraine, according to his fellow impeachment witnesses. On Wednesday, he testified publicly for the first…
Hillary Clinton says she’s under ‘enormous pressure’ to think about running in 2020
Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, said in a Tuesday interview on BBC Radio 5 Live that she’s under “enormous pressure” to consider a…
New ISIS leader is ‘a nobody,’ but US knows ‘almost nothing’ about him: Official
Although the U.S. knows “almost nothing” about the new leader of ISIS, he is “a nobody,” according to a senior State Department official, making it difficult for the terror group…
‘I never saw that’ : Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Mulvaney quid pro quo admission
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on ABC’s “This Week” that he never saw the kind of quid pro quo that acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney referred…
Trump directed me to work with Giuliani to push Ukraine on investigations: Sondland
The U.S. ambassador to the European Union will tell Congress that President Donald Trump directed him and others to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to push Ukraine to…
5 things to know about those encrypted texts US diplomats exchanged on Ukraine
Last month, three top U.S. diplomats used encrypted texts to discuss what one saw as a particularly troubling development: President Donald Trump had put a hold on hundreds of millions…