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The US, UK, and France hit Syria with air and sea launched missile strikes on Friday night and they seem to have struck the capital city, Damascus.
The US launched Tomahawk missiles at Syria on Friday night, as part of a coordinated strike with the UK and France.
"We did not do any coordination with Russia on these strikes, and neither did we pre-notify them," Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford said.
Two US Army soldiers were killed in an Apache helicopter crash late Friday during routine training at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the Army announced Saturday.
The 32-year-old royal has influenced Saudi Arabia's military, foreign policy, economy, and even day-to-day religious and cultural life.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly has his mother under house arrest because he was worried she would oppose his power grab.
The White House press secretary said the president "will not have the meeting without seeing concrete steps and concrete actions take place by North Korea."
It looks like Trump may soon be face-to-face with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — and some experts are already blasting the meeting before it happens.
Under President Donald Trump, the US is preparing for a great-power war and its two main adversaries could be Russia and China.
US Marines are in Thailand for the Cobra Gold training exercise and got to take part in one of the most insane parts: drinking cobra blood.
Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro called Tillerson not stopping in Israel a "mistake" and tweeted it's "yet another blow to Tillerson's credibility."
"We took Jerusalem off the table," President Donald Trump said. "So we don't have to talk about it anymore."
Lawmakers held signs saying "Jerusalem Is The Capital of Palestine," a response to Trump declaring that US would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Mike Pence reiterated that the US would support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "if both sides agree."
"We pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect," Trump tweeted on Tuesday.
"It's broken and it's going to have to be fixed one way or another. It can't go on like this."
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly used another Saudi prince as a proxy for the purchase.
Both President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump made small mistakes in tweets commemorating the anniversary.
Trump explicitly stated that the US is not making any decisions on borders of an East and West Jerusalem, or a final status agreement of the city.
People are revisiting a 2010 photo to show how radically the Arab world has changed in less than a decade.