The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is reportedly running a secret operation bombing boats off of the coast of Ecuador that’s separate from the Trump administration’s boat strike campaign, raising more questions about the U.S.’s violence in the region. The agency was seemingly involved in conducting surveillance flights for attacks on three vessels sailing near the Galápagos Islands in…
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. is going to “beat” the “f****** s***” out of Iran, in a chilling new threat of escalations as the war spirals out of control and engulfs more regional conflicts. “We’re going to beat the f****** s*** out of them,” Trump told Fox’s Trey Yingst. It’s unclear if Trump censored himself, or if the outlet censored his words. “We’ll be hitting…
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President Donald Trump has threatened to conduct an attack on Iran that’s “bigger than ever,” saying that he is still considering whether or not to do so after weeks of vowing to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure, in what experts say would be war crimes. “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump told Axios’s…
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In a Truth Social post Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump suggested that he would respond to Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz by bombing civilian infrastructure in Iran, which would constitute a war crime. “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device…
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In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump vowed to make Iran pay “many times over” for every death of a U.S. soldier in the war — an action that, if carried out, would likely constitute a war crime. This past weekend, CENTCOM announced the three latest deaths of U.S. service members in the war, upping the total number killed to 17 soldiers. The Department of Defense (DOD) also…
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In its first year under Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon dramatically slashed its teams responsible for taking efforts to reduce civilian harm in military conflicts, new reporting finds — an undertaking that continued until as little as months before the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Minab, Iran, in one of the worst single incidents of a civilian massacre committed by the U.S.
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