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16 stories for“United States military”
The Pentagon said roughly 1,500 American and coalition troops left Erbil Airbase in an orderly departure, closing out Operation Inherent Resolve and a withdrawal deal first struck between Baghdad and the Biden administration in 2024.
Oct 1, 2026
Germany has formally blamed Russia for an explosive drone found at Leipzig airport in August, and is closing the Russian consulate general in Bonn by 18 September. The target sat beside a Ukrainian cargo aircraft.
Sep 5, 2026
Seven Republicans crossed, the most yet, for a resolution that binds nobody. The budget office says the war costs two to three billion a month and has used up to two thirds of the missile-defence interceptors. Vance says the first phase is done.
Sep 17, 2026
Trump says America gets permanent control of Greenland's security, a large new garrison and a veto on rival bases, at no cost. Copenhagen says the text recognises Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination. Nobody has published the document.
Sep 22, 2026
Trump gave Xi a rare planeside welcome on Wednesday ahead of Thursday's formal arrival ceremony, the first state visit by a Chinese leader to Washington since Xi's 2015 trip. The two governments extended their trade truce to January and put AI on the agenda.
Sep 24, 2026
The five Londoners in their early to mid twenties were held on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences after a farmer reported vans and a group of masked men near the US-used air base, and remain under stringent bail conditions.
Sep 29, 2026
Israel's prime minister addressed a half-empty hall on Thursday, attacked New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan by name, and thanked Donald Trump for joining the strikes on Iran.
Sep 26, 2026
American strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites drew missile and drone retaliation aimed at American assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iranian officials report at least eleven dead, including five at a wedding in the south.
Sep 2, 2026
The two met for about 40 minutes on Tuesday during UN General Assembly week. Trump said 'I think we're going to make a deal'. Zelenskyy proposed a ceasefire limited to energy infrastructure and repeated his call for a three-way meeting with Putin present.
Sep 24, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
