Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked “emergency authorities” to bypass Congress and send $4 billion in weapons to Israel, the second time in a month that the Trump administration has skirted the process of congressional approval for sending arms to the country. He said only that the Trump administration would “continue to use all available tools to fulfill America’s …
With Donald Trump set to return to the White House, the international outlook is in for a major shake-up. There is a strong sense in Ukraine that to end the war in 24 hours, or at least quickly, Trump would get both leaders together and tell them that they needed to put down their guns and walk away with what …
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed to send a Russian-made missile defence system, the SA-22 aka Pantsir, to the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, news agency CNN said in a report. The report did not specify whether the missile defence system was delivered or how close it is to delivery but it said that Russian mercenary group Wagner Group, which has been …
