The United States and South Korea have tentatively agreed to a new deal covering the costs of maintaining the American military presence there, the U.S. State Department and South Korean foreign ministry announced Friday.
The International Criminal Court unsealed arrest warrants Friday for six men allegedly linked to a brutal Libyan militia blamed for multiple killings and other crimes in a strategically important western town where mass graves were discovered in 2020.
The massacre is one of the worst in Haiti’s Artibonite department, an agricultural region that has increasingly been terrorized by gang violence that is metastasizing from the capital.
The spending, detailed in two Sept. 6 budget documents submitted to congressional defense committees, helps shine a light on the cost of maintaining a stepped-up presence in the region.
The U.S. military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels, U.S. officials confirmed.
The legislation would require the State Department to regularly report to Congress on whether the human rights violations committed by the Sudanese army and the rebel paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have risen to the level of genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity.
An estimated 86,000 U.S. citizens are currently trapped in Lebanon. The State Department said it has been able to find about 800 spots on commercial flights out of Lebanon, but advocates say flights are increasingly scarce and are prohibitively expensive.
Iran’s supreme leader on Friday praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it was ready to do it again if necessary, state TV reported.
Pienaar’s long association with Vekselberg should have disqualified him from investing in IronNet, which was seeking highly sensitive U.S. defense contracts, former intelligence officials said.
The CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries declined to give interception rates and the overall cost of Tuesday’s defense operation. But, he said, the price tag is “incomparable” with the damage Iran’s missiles would’ve caused had they gone unchallenged.