Cuba

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday and delivered a pointed message to troops: the Pentagon is ready for armed conflict with Cuba.

The head of U.S. Southern Command sat down with a senior Cuban general at the edge of Guantanamo Bay on Friday, a direct military encounter so unusual it signals just how tense relations have become between Washington and the communist regime in Havana.

Former Cuban president Raúl Castro has been indicted on murder charges, new court records reveal.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that President Trump is offering a "new relationship" with Cuba on its Independence Day.

Cuba's communist leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, warned that any military action by the United States against his country would lead to a "bloodbath."

CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Cuba this week to meet with officials.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is defending her April trip to Cuba after revealing she met directly with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, foreign ambassadors, and senior government officials to discuss lifting U.S. sanctions and the American fuel embargo against the communist island.

The State Department implemented new sanctions on Cuba, targeting the country's communist operations.

Fidel Castro's grandson, Sandro Castro, told CNN that if it were up to him, he would want to make a deal with President Trump and declared that many Cubans "want to be capitalist, not communist."

Cuban dissidents responded with outrage this weekend as a convoy of American and international leftists arrived in Havana to show solidarity with the 67-year-old communist regime, staying at five-star tourist hotels while the island endured a nationwide electricity blackout.