PENTAGON — President Donald Trump says as many as 15,000 U.S. troops could go to the Mexican border to stop caravans of Central American migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, from crossing into the United States. “It’s a dangerous group of people,” the president said of the migrants after earlier calling them “very bad thugs […]
The Pentagon is deploying 5,200 troops along the U.S. border with Mexico to help agents deal with a caravan of Honduran migrants heading to the United States. “Border security is national security,” General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, head of U.S. Northern Command, told reporters Monday. He said the 5,200 soldiers will be in addition to the nearly […]
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, penned a lengthy letter that he then disbursed to journalists, asking President Trump to withdraw from the 16-year war in Afghanistan was made public this week. Trump has been considering raising the troop strength in that war-torn, beleagured country from its present level of approximately 8,400 to over […]
BAGHDAD — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Baghdad on Monday on one of his periodic visits to assess the health of the campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford brought Jared Kushner, the senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump, and Tom Bossert, […]