Fort Benning returns US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memorandum renaming Fort Moore in Georgia to Fort Benning Per the memo, the base is now named for Corporal Fred G. Benning, awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism during World War I

UPDATE on US mass deportation efforts thru the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 2 US defense officials say 48 detainees were deported Sunday The removal leaves 16 “high threat illegal aliens” at the detention facility and 4 detainees at the migrant operations center

US Director of National Intelligence accuses Ukraine, Zelenskyy of "trying to drag the United States into a nuclear war with Russia/WW3" Tulsi Gabbard, posting from her personal X account, thanks President Trump for "standing up for the interests of the American people, and peace"

Gitmo UPDATE Naval Station Guantanamo Bay now holding a total of 68 migrants, per a US defense official - 33 "high threat illegal aliens" at the detention facility - 35 detainees at the Migrant Operations Center

Former US, NATO pilots and aircrew told "avoid employment with privately-owned aviation companies backing the People’s Republic of China" Friday's warning from NATO Allied Air Command & US Air Forces Europe & Africa Commander Gen James Hecker comes as new German laws take effect

NEW - US task force to combat antisemitism to visit 10 colleges to investigate allegations, per Justice Department: Columbia George Washington University Harvard Johns Hopkins NYU Northwestern UCLA Cal Berkeley University of Minnesota University of Southern California

"Our continuing mission in Syria will continue to be the enduring defeat of ISIS" a US defense official tells VOA, regarding the possible impact of Thursday's call by PKK's jailed leader for the group to lay down its arms

A call by the leader of the Turkey-based Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for the group to lay down its arms could be good for NE Syria "When the peace flowers between Turkey and PKK, that will has its own positive consequences on us" per SDF Commander Gen Mazloum Abdi

ICYMI: Brooklyn, New York man arrested Wednesday for sending thousands of dollars to ISIS, ISIS-Khorasan 33yo Mansuri Manuchekhri also charged firearm possession and immigration fraud, per Justice Department statement

US special forces being pushed to the max "It is increasing the number of operation requests that we cannot meet due to force size and or resources" Army Special Operations Command's LtGen Jonathan Braga told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday

UPDATE: US now holding total of 34 migrants at Guantanamo Bay 26 "high threat illegal aliens" flown to the prison/detention center Sunday & Tuesday and 8 who arrived today (Wednesday) from Fort Bliss who are being held at the Migrant Operation Center, per US defense official

US sanctions 6 entities in Hong Kong and China for helping Iran build drones -Dingtai Industrial Technology -Yonghongan Trade -Hong Kong Tianle International Co -DDC Develop -Shenzhen Zhiyu International -JP Oriental International Holdings

NEW: Another US flight with 9 "high threat" illegal aliens arrives at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba - same day US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is visiting US defense officials confirm to VOA a C-130J from Fort Bliss, Texas landed at Gitmo shortly before noon

US Defense Secretary calls for "deepening and strengthening our partnership" with Saudi Arabia during visit by Saudi Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman to the Pentagon

New: US again starting to fill up facilities at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay with illegal aliens A C-130 military cargo jet carrying migrants slated for deportation flew from Fort Bliss, Texas to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Sunday (Feb. 23), a defense official confirms to VOA

JUST IN: US State Department, Treasury launch new sanctions vs Iran's illicit oil trade - first step of new maximum pressure campaign vs Iran Per spox Tammy Bruce, State is designating 16 entities and vessels, while State & Treasury are sanctioning another 22 people, 13 vessels

NEW: Trump cans chairman of the joint chiefs of staff In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump thanked Gen. CQ Brown for 40 years of service to the US Says he is nominating Air Force Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman

NEW: Pentagon expecting to fire about 5,400 probationary workers starting next week - part of an effort to cut the civilian workforce up to 8% "Simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical" per Defense Department's Darin Selnick

NEW: Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee says US government, OMB should ban the use of DeepSeek and other artificial intelligence tools developed by China

US will not take "no" for an answer from Ukraine on critical minerals "President Zelenskyy is going to sign that deal" White House national security adviser Mike Waltz tells CPAC "You will see that in the very short term"

JUST IN: National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) offers to meet with Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem to save CISA election security and info-sharing mechanisms

President Donald Trump's makeover of the United States' national security and law enforcement agencies took a major step forward Thursday, with Senate lawmakers voting 51-49 to confirm Kash Patel as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) www.voanews.com/a/trump-loya...

BREAKING: Kash Patel confirmed as FBI Director Senate votes 51-49 in favor of Patel Republicans Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins joined the Democrats to vote no

US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, US intelligence agencies "supporting the peace talks" with Russian on the war in Ukraine, per a spokesperson with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

UPDATE: Visit to Guantanamo Bay by US Defense Pete Hegseth has been postponed... now expected to possibly take place next week, per a US defense official

NEW: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth set to visit Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, defense official confirms to VOA Hegseth is expected to be there Friday to look at the military's ongoing support for US deportation operations

ICYMI: NORAD tracked Russian military aircraft in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on Thursday "The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace...not seen as a threat" per statement

Number of migrants -both "high-threat" and non-violent- sent by US to Guantanamo Bay more than doubles in less than a week Officials say +120 "high-threat" detainees are at the prison & about 50 more at the migrant facility - compared to about 68 total last Thursday www.voanews.com/a/more-than-...

NEW: Number of "high-threat" criminal aliens at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay has almost doubled There are now +120 being held at the prison, per a US defense official Last week, SOUTHCOM's commander told lawmakers there were about 68

A growing number of countries, intelligence agencies think they have unmasked the man running ISIS' global operations www.voanews.com/a/intelligen...

NEW: The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a copy pf prepared remarks DNI Tulsi Gabbard delivered to intelligence colleagues at the Munich Security Conference In it she calls for "strong intelligence and security partnerships"

NEW: Navy releases photo of exterior damage suffered by the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier as a result of Wednesday's collision with a commercial vessel near Port Said, Egypt

FBI is assisting its German partners in their investigation into the Thursday's car ramming attack in Munich 30 people were injured after a 24yo Afghan asylum-seeker drove into a labor demonstration German officials have said it was likely an attack

NEW: Indications al-Qaida trying to reorganize in Afghanistan UN member states say the Taliban are allowing AQ "to consolidate, with the presence of safe houses and training camps scattered across Afghanistan " per new intel report from the sanctions monitoring team

ISIS-Khorasan represents "the most serious threat to the de facto authorities, ethnic and religious minorities, the United Nations, foreign nationals and international representatives in Afghanistan" per new UN report

ISIS force strength holding steady in Syria-Iraq with estimated 1,500-3,000 fighters, per new UN report That's unchanged from estimates shared about 6 months ago UN member states believe most of the group, including key leaders, are in Syria

NEW: ISIS-Somalia is digging in - operating out of Buur Dhexaad, described by the UN sanctions monitoring team as "a strategic base secured by natural caves and defensive structures safe from aerial and ground offensives"

NEW: Guantanamo Bay detention center holding approximately 68 migrants transferred to the facility by the Department of Homeland Security, per SOUTHCOM Commander, Adm Alvin Holsey That's in addition to the 15 "law of war" detainees who were there previously

NEW: US aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman "involved in a collision with the merchant vessel" Wednesday near Port Said, Egypt "The collision did not endanger the Harry S. Truman as there are no reports of flooding or injuries" per US 6th Fleet's Cmdr Timothy Gorman Incident under investigation

NEW: "Growing confidence" that the global leader of ISIS is Abdul Qadir Mumin, also the head of ISIS-Somalia, per new UN sanctions monitoring team report "But doubts continued to be expressed by other Member States"

NEW: Newly confirmed US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard starting her tenure by heading to the Munich Security Conference, as part of the delegation led by US Vice President JD Vance - per ODNI

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US Department of Homeland Security blasts lawsuit filed by the ACLU, other immigrants' rights group over detention of "high-threat criminal aliens" at Guantanamo Bay without access to lawyers

NEW: "Trust in the Intelligence Community is at an all-time low" per new US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in her first statement after taking her oath of office

Tulsi Gabbard sworn-in as the US Director of National Intelligence "I look forward to being able to help fulfill that mandate that the American people delivered to you very clearly in this election to refocus our intelligence community" she tells President Trump

NEW: The ISIS attack planner targeted and killed in the February 1 US airstrike had been tracked for at least the past 2 years A Somali official tells VOA Ahmed Maeleninine hailed from Oman, was wanted for various international crimes and had been "a thorn" in the side of Somalia

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as next US intelligence chief "The intelligence community needs to refocus on its core mission—collecting intelligence and providing unbiased analysis" per Senate Majority Leader John Thune "That’s what Tulsi Gabbard is committed to ensuring" www.voanews.com/a/senate-app...

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as the next US director of national intelligence by a 52-28 vote Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell voted no with the Democrats

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as the next US director of national intelligence by a 52-28 vote Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell voted no with the Democrats

US-enabled Iraq|i airstrike vs ISIS kills 2 terror operatives near Kirkuk "An initial post-strike clearance found the dead ISIS operatives, an explosive suicide belt, explosive material, and components of weapons destroyed in the strike" per CENTCOM