The head of the Wagner private army has claimed that Russian troops and mercenaries have surrounded the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, bringing Moscow closer to another major victory in half a year.
Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a War Powers Resolution to force the House of Representatives to vote on removing the U.S. Armed Forces from Syria.
The aid includes weapons designed to target Russia's unnamed systems, as well as electronic warfare detection equipment, mine-clearing devices, drones, and technology to secure lines of communication.
Four U.S. soldiers were injured in an operation in the Middle East this week that successfully killed the intended target of the mission — a senior ISIS leader.
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the West must strap in for a “long” war against Russia and that allies should pour weapons and tanks into the conflict.
The US military has reported more than 15,000 service members overdosing on illicit drugs in the past five years, with 332 deaths, as Fentanyl overdose deaths have doubled since 2017, particularly among white male soldiers under 33 years old, and military bases hosting elite soldiers bore higher concentrations of overdoses, with the need for greater attention and resources to address the overdose crisis in the military becoming more pressing.
Roya Rahmani, former Afghanistan Ambassador to the U.S., was invited to attend the State of the Union Address on Tuesday to draw attention to Biden’s withdrawal of troops from February 2020 to August 2021
