Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been expected to meet Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in Washington on July 1 for the annual 2+2 security talks. But Tokyo scrapped the meeting after the U.S. asked Japan to boost defense spending to 3.5% of gross domestic product, […]
Trump has been mulling whether to involve the United States in Israel’s bombing campaign, indicating in his latest comments that he could decide on the two-week deadline he set this week. Israel said Saturday its air force had launched fresh airstrikes against missile storage and launch sites in central Iran, as it kept up a […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he is giving Iran a limited time to respond, and that two weeks would be the maximum time before he decides on possible action. He made this statement when reporters asked if he was thinking about attacking Iran soon because of the rising tensions in the Iran-Israel […]
Trump signed an executive order pushing back Thursday’s deadline for 90 days, a step he had previously signaled. The Republican president had already twice granted a reprieve from federal enforcement of a law that mandated the sale or shutdown of TikTok, which was supposed to take effect in January, absent significant progress toward a sale. […]
Iran’s well-defended Fordow enrichment facility is a possible U.S. target; it is buried under a mountain and generally considered by military experts to be out of reach of all but the most powerful bombs. In a separate development earlier, the New York Times reported, citing a senior Iranian official, that Iran would accept US President […]
The moves come as President Donald Trump kept the world guessing whether the United States would join Israel’s bombardment of Iran’s nuclear and missile sites, as residents fled its capital on the sixth day of the air assault. Separately, the U.S. embassy in Qatar issued an alert on Thursday temporarily restricting its personnel from accessing […]
The US president hosted Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir at a luncheon and described the meeting as an ‘honour’ for him. “I was honoured to meet him today,” Donald Trump said. The US president also expressed gratitude to Syed Asim Munir for his role in averting war with India. Following a closed-door lunch with Pakistan’s […]
In a statement issued here, Khawaja Asif hailed the luncheon held in honor of Field Marshal Asim Munir by the US president as a significant milestone. He said that an ‘unprecedented’ warmth in Pakistan-US relations will yield positive impacts both in the region and beyond it. Khawja Asif disclosed that a meeting between Field Marshal […]
The midday repast between Trump and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Asim Munir is set for 10 PM Pakistan Standard Time (PST) in the White House Cabinet Room, according to the president’s publicized itinerary. This engagement coincides with the army chief Asim Munir’s U.S. visit, during which he addressed the Pakistani diaspora in Washington, […]
The meeting in the White House Situation Room lasted around one hour and 20 minutes, a White House official said on condition of anonymity, without giving more details. The meeting comes after Trump said the United States would not kill Iran’s supreme leader “for now” and demanded Tehran’s “unconditional” surrender, as US ally Israel traded […]
