The United States is preparing to send troops to Nigeria where they will train the country’s armed forces as they battle an Islamist insurgency, authorities in Lagos said recently. Roughly 200 troops are expected to be deployed in the coming weeks, according to a U.S. official. They will supplement a small team of American military officers already embedded with Nigerian forces. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the imminent deployment. Nigerian officials insisted that the new American contingent will not be engaging in combat. Maj. Gen. Samaila Uba, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters, said in a statement that the troops will instead serve as “technical and training personnel.” The deployment comes more than a month after President Donald Trump announced that U.S. forces had bombed what he termed “ISIS Terrorist Scum” in Nigeria on Christmas night. U.S. Africa Command said its preliminary assessment indicated that “multiple ISIS terrorists” in the Sokoto State were killed in the strikes. The timing of the operation, the president later acknowledged, was largely symbolic, noting he had delayed the attack to deliver a “Christmas present” to the insurgents.In the run-up to the operation, Trump let fly a fusillade of Truth…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The co-hosts of the “I’ve Had It” podcast voiced concerns Friday that there may be a “diabolical” conservative politician on the horizon who is more effective and committed to the cause than President Donald Trump.Trump’s second term in office has been marked by fierce debates about whether he has actually fulfilled the promises he made while on the campaign trail, ranging from his administration’s handling of the Epstein files to failing to secure mass deportations or avoid another war in the Middle East. Such discrepancies have been a frequent topic mentioned by the same podcasters who have been said to have helped him win the 2024 election. After criticizing multiple Democratic presidents for failing to prosecute their Republican predecessors, co-host Jennifer Welch said that she is focused on anticipating what comes after Trump. TRUMP’S BACKING OF H-1B VISA PROGRAM EXPOSES CRACKS WITHIN MAGA MOVEMENT “Trump is no spring chicken, and he’s a lame duck. So what is next?” she asked. “And that’s why I’m so open-minded and analytical about my own political beliefs and the errors of my own ways. And I constantly want to be an evolving political thinker in this time, because…

Some members of the military community now have an expanded virtual option for urgent care. Tricare Prime beneficiaries who see a primary care manager at a military hospital or clinic may be able to get a virtual appointment for urgent care if their local military treatment facility is booked, Tricare officials announced Thursday. Patients can contact the Military Health System Nurse Advice line online or by phone at 1-800-TRICARE (874-2273). A nurse will assess whether they can get a virtual appointment that day or the following. “This is part of the Defense Health Agency’s effort to improve health care access,” said Army Lt. Col. Ryan Shubat, chief of the Defense Health Agency’s primary care and mental health health care optimization, in the announcement. The service is offered in the United States for eligible beneficiaries aged 12 and older, but not overseas or in U.S. territories.Providers can address common urgent care issues, officials said, such as sinus congestion and infections; coughs; allergies; sore or hoarse throat; rashes; acne; muscle and joint pain; and headaches. The nurse will ask about a patient’s symptoms, and decide whether the symptoms can be treated virtually. If it works for the patient, the nurse will set…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Friday that the U.S. military carried out an operation targeting suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean, leaving three people dead.”On Feb. 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” SOUTHCOM said in a post on X.Aerial footage posted by SOUTHCOM shows the vessel being struck.US MILITARY LAUNCHES DEADLY STRIKE ON DRUG-TRAFFICKING VESSEL IN THE PACIFIC, LEAVING 2 DEAD AND 1 SURVIVOR “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the joint command added in the post.Three narco-terrorists were killed during the operation, the joint command said.No U.S. military personnel were harmed in the operation, the command added.This is a developing story; check back for updates. Read the full article here

About 1,500 targets in a single day: that is the scale U.S. Army leaders say they are preparing for in a large-scale war in Europe.The projection, informed by the Russia-Ukraine war, is shaping how the service thinks about automation and speed, officials told reporters Thursday. Army commanders issued the warning as they shared reflections on Dynamic Front 26, a multinational exercise in Europe that brings together U.S. and NATO forces to rehearse the coordination of long-range fires in a high-intensity conflict. Drawing on lessons from Ukraine, the leaders described a battlefield where waves of drones, missiles and artillery could generate targets faster than a traditional headquarters can process them. The exercise focused on moving targeting data across national boundaries and between different systems.“We need to be able to intercept, defeat 600 to 1,200 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and long-range one-way attack drones every 24-hour period,” said Brig. Gen. Steven Carpenter, the commanding general of Multidomain Command Europe. Those numbers, he said, reflect the scale of attacks seen in Ukraine.“At the same time, we need to be able to develop, maintain custody, and pass a minimum of 1,500 targets during that same 24-hour period,” he said. That number, according to Carpenter,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A man who had recently been released from prison on a terrorism charge was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly tried to attack another officer with a knife and scissors near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Friday.The incident happened near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the ceremony for relighting the eternal flame, which is carried out nightly.The unidentified man, who is a French national born in 1978, allegedly tried to attack an officer guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and was shot by another officer.He died of his wounds at a hospital, the French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said.GENEOLOGY COMPANY EXEC SLAMS PIMA SHERIFF’S ‘DEVASTATING’ MOVE TO SHIP NANCY GUTHRIE EVIDENCE TO FLORIDA LAB He was previously sentenced to 17 years in prison in Brussels in 2013 on a terrorist-related offense of attempted murder of three police officers in Belgium and had just been released in December.The man ended up serving 12 years in prison and was placed under police supervision with routine checks, the French prosecution office said.VIDEO SHOWS THE ‘HEIST OF THE CENTURY’ AT THE LOUVREThe French counterterrorism prosecutor’s office said it had…

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Donald Trump on Friday for the first time publicly revealed the nature of the injuries suffered by U.S. personnel in the daring raid to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife from their Caracas home.Operation Absolute Resolve — which involved more than 200 forces and 150 aircraft — left American helicopter pilots wounded “pretty bad in the legs,” Trump said during an address to troops at Fort Bragg, a major Army installation in North Carolina.Trump explained that the pilots landed on a “couple of machine gunners” who made it through a “thicket of bombs,” before adding: “but they were taken out rapidly by our snipers who were stationed on platforms.”During his remarks, Trump told the service members that “no other country has the extraordinary warriors that we have.”“With your help,” the commander in chief noted, “America is winning again, America is respected again, and perhaps most importantly, we are feared by the enemies all over the globe.”Troops erupted in applause when first lady Melania Trump took the podium to offer brief remarks. “To our great armed forces of the United States stationed all over the world, I have a nostalgia-filled message,” she said with…

With the recent news of massive layoffs at the venerable Washington Post, we are hearing from many corners that democracy itself is under siege, the earthquake being the Donald Trump presidency. We already are seeing the narrative forming: the billionaire Jeff Bezos apparently gutting his own newspaper in order to appease the anti-democracy factions of the Trump administration, as decent people look on with horror. Pundits and public intellectuals are having a field day with their post-mortems (no pun intended) of the demise of the newspaper that gave us the famed team Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein that helped bring down Richard Nixon’s presidency, but perhaps the saddest obituary came from Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal, which is ironic, given the leadership of the Post had always given her the back of the hand. Noonan’s account is one that gives homage to journalism’s past and laments what it has become. Like anything that conjures up a romantic history, Noonan’s piece is part fiction and part fact, and though she is an eloquent writer, she fails to understand that American journalism for more than a century has moved well away from its Jeffersonian ideals and has served as a tool to promote state power. Indeed, established mainstream journalism today still…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. men’s figure skater Ilia Malinin revealed his mind became flooded with “thoughts and memories” before his performance in the men’s free skate final at the Winter Olympics Friday. Malinin, a top contender to win gold for the U.S., surprisingly fell twice during his routine. He fell all the way to eighth place and missed out on the podium. “I just had so many thoughts and memories flood right before I got into my starting pose, and almost, I think, it maybe overwhelmed me a little bit. I’ve been through a lot in my life, a lot of bad and good experiences,” Malinin told reporters after the competition.”So, I just feel like it’s the pressure of especially being that Olympic gold medal hopeful. It was just something I can’t control now.”  Malinin emphasized the impact of the “pressure of the Olympics” in his first ever Olympic games.”The pressure of the Olympics, it’s really something different, and I think not a lot of people understand that. They only understand that from the inside and going into this competition, especially today, I felt really confident, really good,” he said. “But it really just went by so…

With no agreement on funding for the Department of Homeland Security by Friday and Congress on recess until Feb. 23, the U.S. Coast Guard is expected to undergo a shutdown beginning at midnight on Friday. For more than 41,000 active-duty and activated Reserve members, the lack of funding means working without pay, although they likely will not feel the effects until the next scheduled military payday Feb. 27, which they could miss if Congress can’t reach an agreement immediately after reconvening. Coast Guard Vice Commandant Vice Adm. Thomas Allan said Wednesday that a shutdown of more than a few days would harm morale and affect pay during a time when the Coast Guard is working to improve recruitment and grow its force. Testifying before a House appropriations subcommittee, Allan said the issue was not a “distant administrative issue” for the men and women of the Coast Guard and those who rely on the service. “The uncertainty of missing paychecks negatively impacts readiness and creates a significant financial hardship for service members and their families,” Allan said. During a shutdown that spanned December 2018 and January 2019, Coast Guard members missed several paychecks, and although they eventually received their back pay,…