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Shia Islamist militant group based in Yemen
As of the USNI Fleet and Marine Tracker snapshot on Jan. 5, 2026, none of the U.S. Navy’s 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers were shown operating inside the U.S. Fifth Fleet area of responsibility, ...
Multiple Biden-era strikes were carried out without a new, specific congressional authorization: the administration notified Congress of some strikes but did not seek pre‑authorization for actions suc...
Counting "U.S. military strikes" under any president depends on definitions (airstrikes, counterterrorism operations, single strikes vs. campaigns) and reporters’ cutoffs; available sources document m...
The available reporting does not provide a single definitive tally labeled “total number of bombs dropped by the US under Trump’s presidency,” but multiple contemporaneous accounts converge on a relat...
Across multiple episodes from 2017 through 2025, reporting and legal filings allege President Donald J. Trump disclosed sensitive national-security information: most prominently a May 2017 disclosure ...
The United States has significantly expanded its military footprint across the Middle East since 2023, with roughly 40,000–50,000 troops regionally and increased naval, air and missile‑defense assets ...
The slogan "Death to America" originated in the 1979 Iranian revolutionary context and has endured as a state and street chant that most Iranian leaders and scholars say targets U.S. policy and "arrog...
Donald Trump’s second-term administration conducted more than 500 airstrikes in its first five to six months — a total that , according to multiple analyses of ACLED and related datasets published in ...
Claims that President Biden authorized the U.S. military to use lethal force against Americans or to override limits on domestic military action stem largely from a misunderstood September 2024 revisi...
President Biden has authorized U.S. military operations since taking office in 2021, including an early 2021 airstrike in Syria/Iraq and multiple counterterrorism and other strikes reported through 20...
President Biden can be credibly credited with ending one major, long-running U.S. combat engagement: the American combat mission in Afghanistan, concluded with the August 2021 withdrawal from that cou...
The perception that "Israel is causing chaos around the world" reflects observable effects of its military campaigns and regional confrontations, but the available reporting shows those actions are dr...
In 2025 the U.S. Navy rotated multiple carrier strike groups into the Middle East to deter Iranian escalation, counter Houthi attacks on shipping, and conduct targeted strikes against extremist groups...
The CIA was a central actor in many of the Obama-era drone campaigns in the Middle East, operating secret bases, conducting strikes against high-value targets, and participating in the administration’...
A handful of and potential , cross‑Taiwan Strait tensions , a widening , and the Red Sea, and spillovers in —carry the clearest risk of expanding into wider wars by 2035 based on current trajectories ...
The U.S. government publicly claimed a central role in brokering at least three high-profile 2025 ceasefires: the January Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas referenced as following a U.S. proposa...
The public record and independent trackers show the Biden administration conducted airstrikes in at least four countries during his first term and beyond, with major, well‑reported strikes in Syria, I...
Pete Hegseth has publicly claimed he personally authorized at least one U.S. strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel off Venezuela and said he watched that operation live (Fox News) . He has also ...
Available reporting identifies Iran and Yemen (Houthi movement) as Muslim-majority contexts where “Death to America” slogans were publicly used or promoted in 2025: Iran’s leadership and state-organiz...
The June 2025 strikes reshaped regional alignments by tightening a U.S.–Israeli security partnership while simultaneously alienating many regional and global actors and weakening Iran’s conventional a...