CENTCOM: Turkish Activities Can Impact Counter-Daesh Campaign Momentum
CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel claims that some of Ankara’s rhetoric and actions can undermine counter-Daesh campaign’s momentum.
CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel claims that some of Ankara’s rhetoric and actions can undermine counter-Daesh campaign’s momentum.
A train station in Dusseldorf, Germany was the scene of an attack after a man brandishing an axe injured multiple travelers. Five individuals were injured during the assault.
CENTCOM Commander Gen. Joseph Votel claims that Daesh the amount of propaganda spread by Daesh has decreased by two thirds compared to a year ago.
Finnish police are preparing for protests against the asylum seekers camp in central Helsinki.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, including the Kurdish YPG faction, are moving closer to the Daesh stronghold in Raqqa, Syria, located along the Euphrates River.
A new study shows that it is possible for a 7.4 magnitude earthquake to affect an area as wide as Los Angeles to San Diego. The Long Beach Earthquake of 1933 had a magnitude of 6.4 and killed 120 people, but a 7.4 would be 30 times as powerful.
The International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru has announced that they have successfully grown potatoes in a hermetically-sealed orbital environment that simulates conditions on Mars, indicating that it is possible to repeat the events of the 2015 film The Martian, by growing crops in red-planet soil.
Benjamin Netanyahu said he asked Vladimir Putin to assist Israel in rescuing two Israeli civilians held by the Palestinian Hamas organization and the bodies of two soldiers.
Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Jim Carr said he will hold his first meeting with US Energy Secretary Rick Perry in Washington.
The Russian Foreign Ministry says that Ukraine is using the UN International Court of Justice to voice politically-motivated accusations that are not in the scope of the court's jurisdiction.
The US Customs and Border Protection Agency has reported a 40% drop in the number of illegal crossings at the southern border with Mexico in the first month of Trump's presidency. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, immigration expert Westy Egmont explained that that the dropoff can be attributed to a deterrent effect coming from officials' harsh rhetoric.
CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel said that the United States and Iraq were working on a five-year plan to keep US forces in Iraq after the defeat of Daesh.
Milos Zeman said he would run for the second term in the upcoming election scheduled for 2018.
The Trump administration has asked the US Congress to raise the national debt limit.
‘Unauthorized’ flights by unmanned aerial vehicles near US Navy and Air Force bases are presenting increasingly hostile circumstances for the security of US personnel and nuclear weapons, Gen. John E. Hyten, Commander of US Strategic Command, told Congress on Wednesday.
Privately-owned space stations could be orbiting the moon by 2020, provided the White House supports entrepreneurial spaceflight, noted aerospace scientist Robert Bigelow in an interview with Space.com.
CENTCOM commander Gen. Joseph Votel said that the US government was working on a plan to replace Afghanistan’s Russian-made fleet of Mi-17 transport helicopters.
Chinese state media is reporting that the country’s space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit.
In a recent speech aboard the USS Gerald Ford, US President Donald Trump declared the most expensive warship in US history to be all but unsinkable. But submarines, in addition to new anti-ship weapons, have routinely taken Navy carriers off the board in previous war games.
Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has released a draft election manifesto which promises to achieve "minus migration" of at least 200,000 people per year.
Russian medics carried out a complex surgery on the youngest patient transferred from Syria, a one-year-old, diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer.
Anonymous officials speaking to US media have confirmed that former Utah governor and Obama-era ambassador to China Jon Huntsman has accepted President Trump's offer to serve as ambassador to Russia, pending confirmation hearings. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Russian politics specialist Dr. Yoshiko M. Herrera explained why Huntsman is a good choice.
US President Donald Trump believes that the computer systems of the CIA are outdated and should be updated, according to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Gen. Joseph said that between four and 12 casualties were caused by the US foces during counterterrorism raid in Yemen.