CIA Director John Ratcliffe told sceptical U.S. lawmakers that American military strikes destroyed Iran’s lone metal conversion facility and in the process delivered a monumental setback to Tehran’s nuclear programme that would take years to overcome, a U.S. official said on Sunday (June 30, 2025). The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to…
The U.S. government is investigating claims by a former senior Syrian official that Marine veteran and freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in Syria in 2013 at the order of then-President Bashar al-Assad. The claim by Bassam al-Hassan, a strategic advisor and member of Assad’s inner circle, has not been corroborated, sources told The Washington…
The U.S. government is investigating claims by a former senior Syrian official that Marine veteran and freelance journalist Austin Tice was killed in Syria in 2013 at the order of then-President Bashar al-Assad. The claim by Bassam al-Hassan, a strategic advisor and member of Assad’s inner circle, has not been corroborated, sources told The Washington…
