The morning of March 14, 2019, the American flag was lowered for the final time at US Embassy Caracas. This morning, on March 14, 2026, at the same time, my team and I raised the American flag—exactly seven years after it was lowered. A new era for US-Venezuela relations has begun.
The reason for war, he said, is to eliminate "imminent threats" from the Iranian regime-threats that "directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world." Also, he said, the objective is to ensure that the regime "can never have a nuclear weapon." Also, he added, the objective is to "ensure that the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region or the world."
Cuban prosecutors have formally charged six people with crimes of terrorism after a US-flagged speedboat was involved in a deadly shootout with Cuba's coast guard last week. The US-based Cuban defendants are accused of packing a boat with weapons and heading toward Cuba in hopes of destabilising the government in Havana.
This is a fantastic day we could not even imagine in our dreams. Hopefully the regime will change, the shah will return back home and we will have a glorious future for Iran. She had emigrated from Tehran 10 years ago and brought her husband, infant son and mother to celebrate in Westwood, the epicenter of L.A.'s sprawling Iranian diaspora.
Israel has reportedly focused on decapitation strikes and military targets, while the United States has focused mostly on military targets. ISW also cited reports that the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's defense minister, intelligence chief, and defense council secretary were killed.
The goal is to create all the conditions for the downfall of the Iranian regime, but developments will also depend on the extent to which the Iranian people rise up. Israeli officials said Israel is targeting the entire Iranian leadership - political and military, past, present, and future - and that Khamenei's residence and government compound have been struck.
The abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by the United States military and the subsequent threats by Washington to intervene in Iran during its recent upheaval have generated a tide of enthusiasm in hawkish pro-Ukraine circles in the West. If Moscow's allies are weakened, then Russia also gets weaker, the simplistic logic goes. Although he criticised US interventionism in the past, US President Donald Trump is newly infected with the regime change fever once spread by his Democratic predecessors.
There was a classified briefing, actually, that lasted for hours, this evening, by those top officials. And the questions are not when it comes to what's next, are not just limited to Venezuela. Who's running it, and what the future of that country is going to look like. We've also heard the President threatening several other nations, just in the last 48 hours alone. Compare what he's been saying lately,
Any lingering doubts about the true motives behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq were dispelled when looters were ransacking Baghdad, carrying off millennia-old artifacts from the Iraqi capital's archaeological museum, while U.S. troops fortified the Ministry of Oilthe only government building left untouched and from which not a single document emerged. The disastrous and illegal invasion, spearheaded by the United States with military support from the United Kingdom
Driving the news: "MAGA loves it. MAGA loves what I'm doing. MAGA loves everything I do," Trump told NBC News in an interview in which he denied that the U.S. is "at war" with Venezuela. "MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too." What they're saying: Conversations with MAGA operatives and media figures reveal varying degrees of comfort with regime change, a concept that became politically toxic after the Iraq War.
The new year opened with a pair of scenes that illustrated the great divide within the US and the stakes of the ongoing contest over its future. On 1 January, in a star-studded inauguration ceremony of uncommon pomp and optimism, Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, was sworn in as the new mayor of New York and delivered a speech that declared the era of small government and centrist inhibition to be over, and a new dawn of ambitious social welfare programs to begin.
