Trump backs $750 billion defense budget request to Congress: official

U.S. President Donald Trump has backed plans to request $750 billion from Congress for defense spending next year, a U.S. official said on Sunday, signaling a Pentagon spending hike at a time of potential belt-tightening elsewhere in the government.

In about-face, Trump targets ‘uncontrollable’ arms race, decries ‘crazy’ defense budget

President Trump in the last two years has never missed an opportunity to tout his $700 and $716 billion budgets to rebuild the ‘depleted’ U.S. military. He also has vowed to rebuild America’s nuclear arsenal by adding new low-yield weapons. He further has announced his intention to abandon a landmark Cold-War era arms control treaty with the Russians. Now, in a single tweet, the president has signaled he’s rethinking the whole idea of winning an arms race by outspending and outlasting America’s adversaries.

Bracing for Gaza clash, IDF launches urban, tunnel warfare drill

The Israeli military this week concluded a combined urban and ‎tunnel warfare exercise simulating fighting in the Gaza Strip. The ‎IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the drill, the 11th of its kind to be held ‎this year, was part of the military’s routine wartime ‎readiness program. ‎

‘Gaza problem won’t go away until we destroy Hamas’ terror ‎network’

The cycle of escalating violence across the Israel-Gaza border ‎will not be resolved until Israel completely destroys ‎Hamas’ and Islamic Jihad’s ‎terrorist infrastructure in the coastal enclave, Foreign Affairs and ‎Defense Committee Chairman MK Avi Dichter (Likud) told Israel ‎Hayom over the weekend. ‎

Trump stands behind Saudi Arabia despite murder of Khashoggi

President Donald Trump vowed on Tuesday to remain a ‘steadfast partner’ of Saudi Arabia despite saying that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have known about the plan to murder dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month.

Horror of Islamic State revealed as Iraq, Syria reclaim occupied lands

ts vaunted ‘caliphate’ is in shambles, but the brutal legacy of the Islamic State is only now coming into clearer focus as rebuilding efforts across Iraq and Syria uncover hundreds of mass graves and fully pull back the curtain on four years of death, destruction and unspeakable atrocities by the radical Islamist terrorist group.

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