Yemen
‘Should I fire him?’ Inside Trump’s deliberations after Signal debacle
For much of this past week, the US president was consumed by a single question. What should he do about national security adviser Michael Waltz?
- Maggie Haberman and Tyler Pager
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The Signal chat decoded: What Hegseth and Waltz revealed in airstrike text messages
Details of a planned US airstrike in Yemen mistakenly shared with a journalist on the messaging app Signal were almost certainly classified information, military experts say.
‘The first bombs will definitely drop’: Full text of US military group chat scandal revealed
The Atlantic released the operational details sent by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to the breached Signal group after the Trump administration insisted the information wasn’t classified.
- Michael Koziol
Harmless ‘glitch’: Trump brushes off inclusion of journalist to military group chat
Two top national security leaders who were members of the highly sensitive Signal group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen fronted a Senate hearing, denying that classified information had been shared.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
The greatest threat to America’s security? Donald Trump’s inept inner circle
For any other government, accidentally adding a journalist to a chat about military airstrikes would be a crisis. For Trump’s, it’s barely a blip on the radar.
- Cory Alpert
Israeli airstrike destroys Gaza’s only cancer hospital, ceasefire ‘bridges’ on the table
Meanwhile, E3 countries say they are “appalled” by the violence in Gaza and called for an immediate stop to strikes.
- Brahim Hazboun, Sam Mednick and Nidal al-Mughrabi
Stop attacking shipping or ‘hell will rain down’, Trump tells Yemen’s Houthi rebels
US President Donald Trump has launched a series of airstrikes on Yemen, promising to use “overwhelming lethal force” until the Iranian-backed Houthis cease attacks on shipping.
- Updated
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel pushes ahead with applying Gaza ‘lessons’ to West Bank
The operation is the third major incursion by the Israeli army in less than two years into Jenin, as the military says it is applying lessons learnt in Gaza.
- James Mackenzie and Raneen Sawafta
Trump’s war on efforts to slow climate change futile
By doubling down on his cry to “drill, baby, drill” and removing all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry, the new president has once again declared war on the world’s climate mitigation efforts. But this is a war he can’t win.
US amplifies strikes on Yemen’s Houthis as tensions with Israel flare
The strikes mark the latest salvo as the US and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by the Iranian-backed militant group.
- Missy Ryan
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