Russia's military said on Sunday that two US F-15 fighter jets had dropped phosphorus bombs over Syria's Deir al-Zor province on Saturday, the TASS and RIA news agencies reported. The air strikes targeted the village of Hadjin and resulted in fires, but there was no information about casualties, the Russian military said.

"We now have two large camps, pitted against each other, who have starkly different conceptions of what their societies are and where they need to head. In a very real sense, these two camps no longer speak the same language. There has been a rupture, and they can find no common ground." By Johnathan Cook.

Decades-long dispute between India and Pakistan is collapsing into itself. By Jeffrey Gettleman.

Shigeaki Mori was 8 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. He survived and committed himself to uncovering the names of all those who died — including 12 American POWs.

An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus in a market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, including children, and wounding as many as 35, Yemeni tribal leaders said. The Saudi-led coalition, meanwhile, said it targeted the rebels, known as Houthis, who had fired a missile at the kingdom’s south the previous day, killing one person.

The bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition in a devastating attack on a school bus in Yemen was sold as part of a US State Department-sanctioned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, munitions experts told CNN. Working with local Yemeni journalists and munitions experts, CNN has established that the weapon that left dozens of children dead on August 9 was a 500-pound (227 kilogram) laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of the top US defense contractors.

A censored student journalist speaks out. By Ben Norton.

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have declared an official ban on using child soldiers in their battle against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) and other hostile forces in the war-ravaged country. The announcement came in the form of an official military order by the Syrian Democratic Forces Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdi released Friday by the militia's press office. Recent reports from the U.N. and human rights groups have accused the group of forcefully conscripting minors...

'This is going to end up with us all fighting each other, Muslims versus Muslims, Croats against Croats, Serbs against Serbs.' By Robert Fisk.

Make no mistake: Hacking the 2016 election was an act of war. It’s time we responded accordingly. By Mark Hertling, Molly K. McKew.

A high-stakes plan to indict Afghan drug lords and insurgency leaders on criminal conspiracy charges ran afoul of the Obama team. Five years later, it remains buried under Trump. By Josh Meyer.

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Future wars will be more Stalingrad than Star Wars, a US General has said as he warns against a relentless focus on technology. General Stephen Townsend, the head of the US Army’s Training and Doctrine Command, told British military leaders at the annual Kermit Roosevelt lecture in London, that combat in an increasingly urbanised world will result in a “scale of devastation beyond our comprehension”.

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In one sample of a residential area called Qaiyara, near Mosul city, in about a third of fatal strikes Isis had been in close proximity to the civilians, but in half of the cases there had been no discernible Isis presence. By Patrick Cockburn.

The US most likely has the tools and expertise to pull off a decisive, clean attack that would humiliate and batter North Korea.

Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to "strangle" a planned 30,000-strong U.S.-backed force in Syria "before it's even born," as Washington's backing for Kurdish fighters drove a wedge into relations with one of its main Middle East allies.

Are we prepared for a nightmare scenario?

Along with the entire the military-industrial complex. By Andrew J. Bacevich.

Max Hastings reviews "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968 and the Descent into Darkness" by Howard Jones.

Photojournalist Eddie Adams captured one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War - the very instant of an execution during the chaos of the Tet Offensive. It would bring him a lifetime of glory, but as James Jeffrey writes, also of sorrow.

President Trump wants to celebrate the troops with a big, beautiful military parade through Washington, DC. The Pentagon and White House officials are in discussions to hold a grand event this year.

For the Israelis this defiance of their usual air supremacy requires massive retaliation. This is ongoing. By Col. Pat Lang.

The only beneficiaries of the administration’s ineptitude to date have been Iran, Assad, and Russia.

The US Africa Command is soon expected to release a series of reports on the October 4, 2017, skirmish in Niger that claimed the lives five Nigeriens and four US soldiers. In the meantime… By Jacob Mundy.

It has been one of the bloodiest weeks of aerial bombardment in the Syrian war. In the eastern suburbs of Damascus, a region called Eastern Ghouta, nearly 500 people have been killed in a deadly escalation that began Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told The Associated Press. More than 120 of the dead are children, the group says.

A senior defense official said Monday that Russia appears to be actively considering the limited use of nuclear weapons, and the Trump administration's nuclear doctrine of "deterrence" will answer the threat.

Hundreds of Russian soldiers are alleged to have died in U.S. airstrikes at the beginning of February. Reporting by Der Spiegel shows that events were likely very different. By Christoph Reuter.

A popular thesis since the 1930s is that a natural progression exists from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars.

Bolton has long had President Trump’s ear. He might soon have a top job in his White House. By Zack Beauchamp.

A U.S. soldier watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

The invasion is no longer just one of the great crimes of this or any age – it's become a crossroads event in the history of America's decline. By Matt Taibbi.

Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart. By Gareth Porter. (Mar. 22, 2018)

Please, let's not forget what a dangerous nut John Bolton is. By Damon Linker.

A review of the Clinton and Bush years reminds us what really dooms a presidency. By T.A. Frank.