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Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website - Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. President Donald Trump is still basking in the glow off his strong, resolute, manly decision to launch missiles at a Syrian air base in order to punish Bashar al-Assad for a chemical weapon attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun.
On April 7, two U.S. Navy battle ships USS Porter and USS Ross launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield in Syria's Homs province from the Eastern Mediterranean. The U.S. strikes particularly targeted the main landing strip, aircraft, radio locators, air defense system and fuel stations.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson sails in the South China Sea in March 2017. President Trump has asked his national security team to provide "a full range of options to remove" the threat posed by the North Korean regime to the U.S. and its allies, national security advisor H.R. McMaster said Sunday, a day after U.S. Pacific Command directed an aircraft carrier strike group to the region.
The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation's security forces, according to U.S. officials. Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned to approve at the very end of Barack Obama's presidency.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian air base in retaliation for a chemical weapon attack carries a message for any nation operating outside of international norms. He didn't specify North Korea, but the context was clear enough.
A row of F-18 fighter jets on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson was prepared for patrols as the U.S. Navy took Philippine journalists to the mammoth aircraft carrier on routine patrol in the waters off the disputed South China Sea. WASHINGTON>> Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the U.S. missile strikes against a Syrian air base in retaliation for a chemical weapon attack carries a message for any nation operating outside of international norms.
The US Navy said Saturday it had sent a carrier-led strike group to the Korean peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear weapons program. The move will raise tensions in the region and comes hard on the heels of a US missile strike on Syria that was widely interpreted as putting Pyongyang on warning over its refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
Los Angeles: The diversion of an armada of American warships from port visits in Australia to the waters off North Korea is designed to give US President Donald Trump a "full range of options" against dictator Kim Jong-un's regime. Mr Trump's national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster, and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, signalled on Sunday that the US was preparing to respond to North Korea's aggressive ramp up of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
A sign seen at a #HandsOffSyria event in New York City on Friday, April 7. U.S. President Donald Trump claims the objective of his cruise missile strike on Syria is to deter Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons again. But six years into Syria's brutal civil war, Trump does not have the luxury of defining his objective that narrowly.
On Friday, the day after Trump ordered the attack on the Syrian air field, I saw a post by Colonel Rob Maness criticizing Trump's decision. Retired Col Maness has been a very staunch supporter of candidate, president-elect and president Trump.
On quite a few occasions since last fall, this blog has been devoted to the anniversaries of significant military events as part of the Chamber of Southern Saratoga County 's commitment to chronicle them to help people learn more about the historical significance of our home community. This past week was the 100th Anniversary of the USA entering World War I , as our "doughboys" mobilized to go "Over There" and eliminate the Kaiser's forces from the trenches of Central Europe.
The Pentagon says a Navy carrier strike group is moving toward the western Pacific Ocean to provide a physical presence near the Korean Peninsula. North Korea's recent ballistic missile tests and continued pursuit of a nuclear program have raised tensions in the region, where U.S. Navy ships are a common presence and serve in part as a show of force.
A U.S. Navy strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier was making its way towards the Korean peninsula Sunday "to maintain readiness" as Kim Jong Un's regime in North Korea prepared to mark key anniversaries this coming week. North Korea is expected to hold a huge military parade on April 15 to celebrate the 105th birthday of its founding president, Kim Il Sung, and to mark the 85th anniversary of the creation of the Korean People's Army on April 25 with similar fanfare.
Governor of Syria's Homs province confirmed the air base targeted in the US cruise missile attack is operating again US President Donald Trump has praised the US military for carrying out the missile attack on a Syrian airfield and struck back at mounting questions over whether it would help achieve a momentum shift in Syria's bloody civil war. In a tweet, Trump defended the operation against criticism from some members of US Congress and military analysts that the nighttime volley of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles two days earlier did not target the runways at the Shayrat air base in eastern Syria.
Michael Hayden had a long and distinguished career serving his country that stretches back to the late 1960s when he was commissioned through the University of Pittsburgh's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program.
A F/A-18E Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. Photo: AFP The US Navy said Saturday it had sent a carrier-led strike group to the Korean peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear weapons programme.
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Say what you like about Donald Trump's rocky start as leader of the free world, but he should be congratulated for taking swift military action in response to President Assad's use of chemical weapons. By sending Tomahawk missiles to obliterate the al-Shayrat air base - from which Syrian air force jets launched their sickening Sarin gas attack last week - Trump succeeded at a stroke in doing what Barack Obama had so abjectly failed to do: enforce his own ill-advised 'red line' warning of 2012 over the use of chemical weapons.
A U.S. Navy strike group will be moving toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula, a U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday, as concerns grow about North Korea's advancing weapons program. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson takes part in a joint military exercise in Busan, South Korea in March.