May 11, 2021
The crew of a US Coast Guard cutter fired multiple bursts of warning shots as two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) fast-attack boats came too close to a formation of US Navy ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday.
Thirteen IRGC boats approached the group of six US vessels as they escorted the surfaced USS Georgia submarine through the strait, according to the US Navy.
With deck guns uncovered and manned, two of the IRGC fast boats broke away from the Iranian formation and rapidly approached to within 150 yards of the USCGC Maui, the US’ Fifth Fleet said in a statement.
May 10, 2021
The US Navy has released a video of a massive cache of rifles, machine guns and anti-tank rockets seized aboard a boat in the Arabian Sea last week.
The USS Monterey halted a stateless dhow ship last Thursday before discovering dozens of Russian-made guided anti-tank missiles, thousands of Chinese-made AK-47-style rifles, as well as hundreds of machine guns, anti-materiel rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs).
The crew of the dhow was released after questioning and the weapons were loaded onto the Monterey over a two-day period, the Navy said.
An investigation has not yet determined where the weapons were headed, nor where they came from, the US Fifth Fleet said in a statement on Saturday.
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Fearing Taliban attacks on U.S-led coalition forces as they withdraw from Afghanistan, the Pentagon has beefed up its air support for the troops remaining in the country.
Further, Milley said that the Afghans are capable of standing up to the Taliban without the support of the U.S.-coalition.
“They’re fighting for their own country now, so it’s not a foregone conclusion, in my professional military estimate, that the Taliban automatically win and Kabul falls, or any of those kinds of dire predictions,” Milley said.
“That’s not a foregone conclusion. There’s a significant military capability in the Afghan government. We have to see how this plays out.”
A United States Pentagon official says “small harassing attacks” by the Taliban in Afghanistan have not had a significant impact on the ongoing US and NATO troop withdrawal from the country.
The statement from Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby came shortly after the US officially began its troop withdrawal on Saturday.
“What we’ve seen are some small harassing attacks over the course of the weekend that have not had any significant impact, certainly not on our people or our resources there and bases,” Kirby told reporters on Monday.
“We’ve seen nothing thus far that has affected the drawdown, or had any significant impact on the mission at hand in Afghanistan,” he said.
Iraqi authorities nab Islamic State governor of Fallujah Abu Ali al-Jumaili s arrest comes as Kurdish-led forces captured another IS official across the border in Syria. A member of the Iraqi government forces stands guard on a severely damaged street as Iraqi women walk past in the city of Fallujah, which was recaptured from the Islamic State nearly six months ago, in Iraq s western Anbar province on Dec. 29, 2016. - SABAH ARAR/AFP via Getty Images
May 3, 2021
Iraq’s intelligence services captured the Islamic State’s governor of Fallujah in an operation coordinated with security forces of the country’s Kurdistan Region, Iraq’s military said Monday.