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Russia says Ukraine using long-range US artillery

Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Moscow announced Tuesday it had for the first time downed a long-range rocket supplied to Ukraine by the United States, weapons Kyiv said were key to an anticipated counter-attack against Russian forces.

AFP

Lawmakers: Expand federal aid for hungry troops

WASHINGTON — House members from both parties have signed on to two bills filed late last week aimed at expanding federal aid to hungry American troops and their families, and a similar push is underway in the Senate.

Tribune News Service

Pentagon comes out against law requiring military wish lists - Roll Call

The Defense Department says it backs ending “unfunded priorities lists” — annual requests for spending above the president's budget requests.

Roll Call

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The ‘punching fists of democracy’: How the West’s new tanks could give Ukraine a battlefield edge over Russia

Further battalions of Leopard, Abrams and Challenger tanks could eventually be a game-changer, Andy Gregory reports

The Independent UK

Lawmakers: Expand federal aid for hungry troops - Roll Call

DOD figures show some 286,800 personnel in the active-duty force, or nearly 1 in 4 military servicemembers, experience “low food security.”

Roll Call

Congress captured by the arms industry

Pentagon budget is stunning even by the standards of a department used to getting what it wants when it wants it

Salon

‘Iranian Militias' Build up Reinforcements in Eastern Syria

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that Iranian-backed militias poured in military reinforcements to their headquarters in Al-Mayadeen, Al-Bokamal, and Ain Ali in areas controlled by regime forces in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The move come days following US airstrikes on several military bases of these…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Is war with China inevitable?

There's no clear evidence that China is likely to invade Taiwan anytime soon. Why is Washington fixated on war?

Salon

Alien mothership lurking in our solar system could be watching us with tiny probes, Pentagon official suggests

A draft paper by a Harvard scientist and the head of the Pentagon's UFO office has raised the idea an alien mothership could be in the solar system, sending out tiny probes dubbed "dandelion seeds" to explore the planets within.

Space

19 killed in US strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria: new toll

Beirut (AFP) - The death toll from US strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria following a deadly drone attack has risen to 19, a war monitor said Saturday, as Damascus accused Washington of lying about its "vicious attack".

AFP

A look at the US military mission in Syria and its dangers

The Iranian drone attack that struck a U.S. base in northeastern Syria, killing a contractor and wounding several U.S. troops, is just the latest in a growing number of attacks on American forces in Syria

The Independent UK

Biden says not seeking conflict with Iran after deadly strikes

Beirut (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Friday the United States is not seeking conflict with Tehran, after Washington carried out strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria in retaliation for a deadly drone attack.

AFP

Brian Merchant: Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be

It’s become a common refrain among a certain set of Silicon Valley elite: They’ve been treated so unfairly. Case in point: Even after their bank of choice collapsed spectacularly — in no small part of their own doing — and the federal government moved with dispatch to guarantee all its…

Los Angeles Times

14 dead in US strikes on Syria after drone kills American contractor

Beirut (AFP) - Fourteen pro-Iran fighters were killed in US air strikes on Syria carried out in retaliation for a drone attack that killed an American and wounded six others, a war monitor said Friday.

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Daily Mirror

US launches air strikes in Syria after drone kills American and injures 5 troops

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed the American intelligence community had determined the drone was of Iranian origin when it fatally struck a contractor in Syria

Reuters

Biden warns Iran after tit-for-tat strikes in Syria

President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iran that the United States would "act forcefully" to protect Americans, after the U.S. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack in Syria.

AFP

11 dead in US strikes on Syria after drone kills American contractor

Beirut (AFP) - Eleven pro-Iran fighters were killed in US air strikes on Syria carried out in retaliation for a drone attack that left an American dead and wounded six others, a war monitor said Friday.

The Independent UK

Biden says US willing to respond ‘forcefully’ after deadly Iran drone strike

President Joe Biden authorised the Pentagon to retaliate with ‘precision airstrikes’ against Iran-aligned groups

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US strikes in Syria kill eight after contractor death

Beirut (AFP) - US airstrikes killed eight pro-Iran fighters in eastern Syria following a drone attack that killed one American contractor and wounded five US service personnel, a war monitor said Friday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Vows to Protect Personnel in Syria after Deadly Attack

The United States on Friday said it would protect its personnel in Syria after the US military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack that killed an American contractor and wounded five US troops. Just a day after the deadly attack on US personnel in…

Chicago Sun-Times

U.S. military launches airstrikes after drone attack kills contractor in Syria

A suspected Iranian drone strike killed a U.S. contractor and wounded five service members and another contractor at a coalition base in Syria, according to the Pentagon.

The New Daily

Joe Biden orders US warplanes to blast Iran-backed Syrian rebels

The United States has military carried out multiple air strikes in Syria against Iran-aligned groups it blames for a deadly drone attack

France 24

US bombs Syria after American killed in drone strike

The US military carried out multiple air strikes in Syria on Thursday night against Iran-aligned groups. Those same organizations are accused of being behind a drone strike that killed one American contractor, injured another, as well as five US troops.

Axios

U.S. strikes Iran-backed groups in Syria after drone kills an American and injures 6 others

Intelligence assessments indicate drone was "of Iranian origin," Pentagon said.

Al Jazeera

US air strikes ‘kill 11’ in Syria after drone kills contractor

Pentagon says air strikes carried out in retaliation for drone attack on US base that killed one person, injured six.

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