Media
Latest News
President Trump on Wednesday stoked divisions in Europe by wading into the middle of an intense fight over the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, a project that critics fear will give Moscow new leverage in the region and could create a geopolitically dangerous Russian-German economic alliance.
At a high-stakes NATO summit in Brussels, the president blasted the $9.1 billion pipeline and argued that it is giving Russia undue influence over Berlin and, by extension, fracturing the solidarity of NATO.
President Trump tore into the NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday with a double-barrel assault on Germany, saying a pipeline deal would render the country “captive to Russia” even as Berlin looked to the U.S. for defense from Russian aggression.
The charge, leveled at a breakfast meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, surpassed expectations that Mr. Trump would shake up the old military alliance.
Five months after the October deaths of four U.S. soldiers in Niger, the government added the African nation and its neighbors to the list of countries where service members receive additional hazard pay.
To avoid future delays in payments for troops participating in an expanding theater of war, a North Carolina congressman who represents Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, where all four soldiers were stationed, wants the Department of Defense to reconsider how it determines who is eligible for imminent danger pay.
A team of 12, including two teens, from North Albemarle Baptist Church is among a number of American missionary groups stranded in Haiti because of an uprising.
First slated to leave Saturday from a week-long mission trip in the underdeveloped nation, a forced closure at the airport after escalating protests delayed the team’s departure. As conditions worsened overnight, Sunday’s planned exit was nixed as well.
While some have called for a reduced role for U.S. troops in Africa following deadly attacks in Niger and Somalia, Rep. Richard Hudson is returning to America this weekend ready to advocate for more troops and resources on the continent.
Hudson, a Republican whose district includes Fort Bragg, spent two days with American military leaders overseeing the nation’s efforts on the African continent.
The House version of the 2019 defense-spending bill will contain a provision that increases funding for the Army Special Operations Command, and training for Special Forces (Green Berets). Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., introduced the provision as an amendment to the bill. To pay for the increase, money would be transferred from the Research Development Testing and Evaluation Account. The amendment cleared the House on June 28. Hudson’s district includes Joint Base Bragg-Pope, home of the 82ndAirborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps.
More special operators could receive a break on taxes next year.
The Special Operations Forces Tax Cut Act would grant tax breaks to troops based on their mission, rather than location. The bill would benefit troops who deploy outside of combat zones not formally recognized in the IRS' Combat Zone Tax Exclusion section.
The Combat Zone Tax Exclusion allows service members who deploy to certain combat zones to exclude income from federal tax filings. Qualifying regions for the tax exclusion are Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Arabian Peninsula.
More special operators could receive a break on taxes next year.
The Special Operations Forces Tax Cut Act would grant tax breaks to troops based on their mission, rather than location. The bill would benefit troops who deploy outside of combat zones not formally recognized in the IRS' Combat Zone Tax Exclusion section.
The Combat Zone Tax Exclusion allows service members who deploy to certain combat zones to exclude income from federal tax filings. Qualifying regions for the tax exclusion are Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Arabian Peninsula.