James Mattis

(ANTIWAR.COM) — Trump Administration officials familiar with the decision-making process say that the Pentagon will be sending “almost 4,000” more US ground troops into Afghanistan soon, with the official announcement on the deployment likely to come as early as next week.

(ANTIMEDIA) — Defense Secretary Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis told Congress on Tuesday that the United States is not winning the war in Afghanistan, Reuters reports.
The United States has been formally at war with (or within) Afghanistan since 2001, with little to no tangible progress to show for it. In that context, Mattis’ admission should hardly come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention.

(ANTIMEDIA) Washington, D.C. — On the heels of comments made by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis regarding the United States’ diminishing industrial dominance on the world stage, Reuters reported Wednesday that the U.S. appears ready to heavily increase scrutiny of Chinese investment in Silicon Valley.

Qatar’s Minister of Defense Khalid bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah, right, welcomes U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis at his residence in Doha, Qatar, Saturday April 22, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/AP)
Defense Secretary James Mattis and his Qatari counterpart, Defense Minister Khalid al-Attiyah have signed a $12 billion arms deal today in Washington, a move made particularly high-profile because of the ongoing blockade imposed on Qatar by its Gulf Arab neighbors.

(ANTIWAR.COM) — Defense Secretary James Mattis and his Qatari counterpart, Defense Minister Khalid al-Attiyah have signed a $12 billion arms deal today in Washington, a move made particularly high-profile because of the ongoing blockade imposed on Qatar by its Gulf Arab neighbors.

(ANTIMEDIA) — According to a U.N. Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating violations of international war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, the intensification of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition has led to a “staggering loss of civilian life,” the Guardian reports.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Imam Ali Khamenei has spoken about America’s role in funding global Salafist terrorism in a speech in Tehran. He highlighted the main points of his speech in the following series of Tweets,

That US arms a terrorist group is what causes instability. Who created #ISIS? The US!
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) June 12, 2017

(ANTIWAR.COM) — After two consecutive days of incidents in southern Syria’s Daraa Province, the first seeing US forces attacking Shi’ite militias and the second seeing US warplanes shooting down a Syrian drone, the Pentagon has issued a statement today praising Russia for being “very helpful” in calming the rising tensions in the area.

Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster listens as President Donald Trump speaks at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 20, 2017. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford greets Defense Secretary James Mattis at the Pentagon (AP/Alex Brandon)
Speaking over the weekend at a conference in Singapore, Defense Secretary James Mattis urged the world to “bear with” the US as they adjust to the election of a new president, insisting that the US remains committed to engaging in global intervention and that it is “very deeply rooted in the American psyche.”