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US Navy says Iran boats ‘harassed’ ship in Strait of Hormuz
The guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul and the Royal Navy’s frigate HMS Lancaster responded to the incident, according to the U.S. Navy.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
New pact with the US and UK is set to sink Australia’s historic submarine buy from France
The U.S. and UK will aid Australia’s ambitions for a nuclear-powered submarine fleet as part of a new trilateral security partnership that leaders of the three counties are set to announce Wednesday.
By Joe Gould
Putin says US and UK were behind Black Sea ‘provocation’
A spokesperson for U.S. European Command reaffirmed the Pentagon’s earlier dismissal of the Russian description of the Black Sea incident involving a British destroyer as false.
UK’s newest carrier ― with Marine Corps F-35s onboard ― joins Islamic State fight, stirs Russian interest
The carrier has 10 U.S. F-35 jets from the Marine Corps’ Fighter Attack Squadron 211 aboard that carry out operations under British command.
By Menelaos Hadjicostis
As Russia tensions simmer, NATO conducts massive war games
The war games, dubbed Steadfast Defender 21, are aimed at simulating the 30-nation military organization’s response to an attack on any one of its members.
Best pics of the week: May 23, 2021
Air Force PJs train in Djibouti, amphibious exercises in Portugal, DEFENDER-Europe exercises in Bulgaria and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
Trump pardons former Rep. Duncan Hunter and four Iraq war vets convicted in Blackwater shooting
The former Blackwater employees were sent to prison for their role in a controversial 2007 attack in Baghdad which left 14 people dead.
Naval War College official on leave over pornographic link in email
Provost Lewis Duncan blamed the link, which was supposed to be a link to a faculty survey, on a hack of his home computer.
Army vet steps down from congressional committees amid voter fraud charges
Rep. Steve Watkins, R-Kansas, will depart the House Veterans' Affairs Committee while he fights the charges.
Former Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Marine veteran, gets 11 months in prison
Former California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was sentenced Tuesday to 11 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing campaign funds and spending the money on everything from outings with friends to his daughter’s birthday party.
Cruise passengers arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base to begin quarantine as Georgia reacts to virus
Some of the passengers from a cruise ship in California that carried people infected by the new coronavirus arrived at an air base in Georgia to begin a two-week quarantine, as more than 100 schools in two districts were closed Wednesday and public events were scrapped.
By Jeff Martin, The Associated Press