Turkey claims that Donald Trump stabbed them in the back with sanctions, tariffs, and tough talk following the illegitimate arrest of an American pastor. He didn’t. He counter-punched them, and they deserved it.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration has rejected Turkey’s offer to condition the release of an American pastor on clearing a top Turkish bank of billions of dollars in US fines, media reported Monday.
The safest way to save Andrew Brunson’s life is not to bow to Erdogan’s demands, but to make the cost of taking Brunson’s life too great for even Erdogan to bear.
The Pentagon warned on Thursday the Islamic State is “well-positioned to rebuild and work on enabling its physical caliphate to re-emerge.”
Contents: Afghan army, backed by US, struggles to regain Ghazni after four days; Taliban attack on Ghazni brings America’s Afghanistan strategy into question.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan intends to go down in history as the most consequential leader of his nation since Ataturk. He is reaching that goal by unraveling Ataturk’s secular reforms and turning Turkey into an Islamist nation.
The unprecedented air campaign against the Taliban’s opium and heroin trade, seen as the group’s primary economic engine and worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the narco-jihadis, has failed to meet to expectations according to a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report on Wednesday.
Three NATO troops were killed after the Taliban carried out a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday near the town of Charakar.
“They can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake disgusting news,” Trump said.
A column in China’s Communist Party People’s Daily newspaper commended President Donald Trump on Monday for allegedly exhibiting “disdain” for NATO, calling for the eradication of the military coalition entirely.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the U.S. nothing will force Ankara to “step back” after President Donald Trump threatened “significant sanctions” against Turkey if a jailed U.S. pastor is not released.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Western powers on Thursday against deepening military alliances with Georgia and Ukraine, asserting that Russia would “respond proportionately” to “aggressive moves” against it.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told members of Congress this week that the recent NATO summit was “one of the most productive” he has ever attended.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) praised President Donald Trump Wednesday on “Fox News @ Night” for insisting NATO member nations pay their previously agreed upon percentage on defense, something for which the president has received criticism. “I was thrilled, absolutely thrilled,
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson pushed back against the backlash over the question of small Balkan nation Montenegro as a member of NATO. According to Carlson, it was a relevant question given Americans could
The U.S.-NATO mission in Afghanistan refuted reports Monday that the top commander of American-led international forces said the United States is ready to engage in direct negotiations with the Afghan Taliban.
The United States is reportedly in talks with Turkey to convince them they should purchase the Raytheon Co. Patriot defense system as a potential alternative to the Russian S-400 systems Turkey currently has, a Reuters report revealed Monday.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday heralded the $33 billion increase in NATO allies’ spending but added that his Monday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan is slamming the political left in the Washington, D.C. beltway for what he says is their longing for a “second Cold War” with Russia.
The United States, the top oil and gas seller, will compete with Russia’s gas pipeline to Germany, according to President Donald Trump, who addressed his previously expressed concern about the Nord Stream II pipeline during Monday’s joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump heralded the strength of NATO and support from allies on Monday morning ahead of his meeting in Helsinki, Finland, with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a globally-anticipated one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
NATO member and partner-nations have fought side-by-side with U.S. forces in Afghanistan for 17 years, after Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. in 2001. But in recent years, the alliance has struggled to meet its troop commitments.
BAGHDAD — Iraqis demanding better public services and jobs took to the streets again on Sunday in the southern oil-rich province of Basra, as authorities put security forces on high alert and blocked internet on the sixth day of protests in the country’s Shiite heartland.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday called NBC News’ report that the Pentagon was in “damage-control” mode to reassure NATO allies after President Trump’s visit “fiction.”
President Donald Trump is spending two days at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland after a NATO summit and bilateral meetings with U.K. leaders and before meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland on Monday.
President Donald Trump rebuked a reporter who asked if he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin an “upper hand” ahead of their meetings on Monday, telling the reporter during a Friday press conference in the U.K. how strong NATO is after this week’s summit.
U.S. President Donald J Trump has said that mass immigration is “very bad” for Europe and it is changing the culture of the continent, before saying that the UK vote to leave the European Union happened “because of immigration”.
China’s state-run Global Times was very taken with President Donald Trump’s declaration on Twitter that “NATO countries must pay MORE, the United States must pay LESS” because the current situation is “very unfair!” The United States spending less on defense sounds like a fabulous idea to aggressive expansionist China.
President Donald Trump rebuffed a reporter during Thursday morning’s press conference at the NATO summit, declaring NATO “stronger” after Trump’s push for countries to meet their spending commitments before his Monday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
President Donald Trump told reporters in a late-scheduled press conference at the NATO summit that he will again discuss Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 election with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a July 16 bilateral meeting.
Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage backed President Donald J Trump’s tough stance on European countries “freeloading” in NATO, and warned the EU’s ambitions to form a unified military is the real threat to the alliance’s future.
Late-night hosts including, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, chided President Donald Trump over his recent NATO summit in Brussels where he urged other countries to pay more into the alliance’s defense budget.
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski touted their efforts to “fact-check” President Donald Trump during an impromptu press conference in Brussels following a meeting of NATO leaders. “While [French President Emmanuel] Macron’s fact-check came several
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has told press at the NATO summit on Thursday he has warned the defence union that “immigration is taking over Europe”.
President Donald Trump told reporters in a late-breaking news conference Thursday that the pipeline from Russia to Germany was discussed “at length” during the NATO conference.
President Donald J. Trump appeared to have met his key objectives for the Brussels NATO summit Thursday, revealing that alliance members would “substantially” increase their commitments, and much faster than previously planned.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Daily Briefing,” Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was “still a good idea,” but it has to be “modernized.” When asked about President Donald Trump’s criticism of the alliance, Rubio said,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” MSNBC Contributor and former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama Ben Rhodes stated that “The biggest danger to the national security of the United States is the president of the United States,
In a panel discussion on Israel’s i24NEWS, Breitbart Jerusalem chief Aaron Klein said that President Donald Trump was raising a “very fair question” by criticizing fellow NATO members over their disproportionate contributions to defense spending while the U.S. allocates a much larger percentage of its economic output on its defense budget.
