Stay updated with breaking news from Dan Lamothe. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
TAMPA, Fla. – The following remarks were communicated yesterday at a CENTCOM Virtual Roundtable. They are attributable to Dana Stroul, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East; General Matthew McFarlane, Commander of Combined Joint Task,
The forcing down of a U.S. drone by Russian fighter jets over the Black Sea on Tuesday spiraled into a diplomatic incident and fueled concern about the potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate in...
The U.S. drone taken down Tuesday in the Black Sea was introduced in the 2000s in the midst of the Iraq War.
The top diplomats from the United States and China met on Saturday in the first high-level contact between their countries since the U.S. shot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon two weeks ago, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken sending the message that Beijing's surveillance program had been "exposed to the world."
It all started two weeks ago with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which carried a payload about the size of three buses. A U.S. fighter jet shot it down after it floated across the continent. Then, the U.S shot down a second object: something airborne over Alaska that the U.S. said was likely not a balloon at all. And now, there’s been a third and a fourth object taken down above North America this month, in these cases over Yukon and Lake Huron. Today, Dan Lamothe explains the knowns and unknowns about these objects and what could be driving the decisions to shoot them down. Lamothe cove...