January 2020

Details continue to arrive, but a number of rockets hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, causing minor damage but no casualties. Iranian-backed Iraqi militias in the country have been launching sporadic rocket attacks against various…

In 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran, taking dozens of hostages and holding 52 Americans in a 444-day standoff in what has become widely known as the Iranian hostage crisis. . The incident occurred in…

In a unanimous decision, the Harris County Court of Commissioners backed the formation of an African-American Cultural Heritage Commission, at its Jan. 7 meeting.The commission will serve as an advisory board to assist in the…

WASHINGTON - President Trump said without evidence on Thursday that a senior Iranian commander killed in a US airstrike was plotting to blow up a US embassy.The president's unfounded account comes as Democrats demand details of the…

Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced on Tuesday that the United States would send additional forces to Baghdad to protect the American embassy from attacks by Iraqi Shiite militia supporters. On a Tuesday night Tweeter, he wrote that 750…