Yemenis gathered at the site of a Saudi-led coalition air strike in August 2018. PHOTO: STRINGER/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Decision to speed delivery of 22 deals worth $8 billion; opponents decry administration’s move WASHINGTON—The Trump administration on Friday invoked a rarely used provision of American arms
Photo: Democracy Now! President Trump issued the second veto of his presidency Tuesday, blocking a congressional effort to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has killed thousands of civilians and sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The War Powers Resolution was
Photo: Getty Images President Trump reportedly plans to ask for an overall defense budget of approximately $750 billion in 2020, including a Pentagon budget of $718 billion. CNN, citing two unidentified U.S. officials, reported that Trump will ask for about $544 billion for the base defense budget and another $9
Members of Common Defense meet with Sen. Bernie Sanders in Washington, D.C., on March 1, 2019. Photo: Ryan Harvey/Common Defense EIGHT MEMBERS OF Congress have taken a pledge to work to bring ongoing U.S. global military conflicts to a “responsible and expedient” end, the result of
Photo: Boys demonstrate outside the offices of the United Nations in Sanaa, Yemen to denounce last weeks air strike that killed dozens including children in the northwestern province of Saada, August 13, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Originally appeared on The American Conservative. Ahmad Algohbary and Faisal Edroos report from
