President Donald Trump has set a record for activity on his favourite social media platform, tweeting and retweeting more than 130 times about his US Senate impeachment trial, the Democrats who want to replace him and much, much more. By 4.25pm on Wednesday (Washington time), Mr Trump had barrelled through his previous record of 123 Twitter postings in a day, …

President Donald Trump’s initial response to Iran’s ballistic missile strikes targeted at American troops was to tweet a reminder the US has “the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far”. The attacks – which were in response to the US state-sanctioned killing of a top Iranian military leader – followed days of threats and promises that the …

Donald Trump has become the third US president in history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, setting up a trial in the Senate that will decide whether he remains in office. The House voted on two charges – that the president abused his power and that he had obstructed Congress. Both votes fell along party lines with nearly …

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard ripped into Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Twitter Wednesday. Gabbard said, “Erdogan has been helping ISIS/AQ for years. He has denied this but is now openly using militias of “former” ISIS/AQ terrorists, exposing him for what he really is: a radical Islamist megalomaniac who wants to establish a caliphate with himself as the Caliph — the …

US President Donald Trump said Wednesday the Kurdish PKK militia, who have waged a decades-long insurgency against Ankara, was “probably” a bigger terror threat than ISIS. “The PKK, which is a part of the Kurds, as you know, is probably worse at terror and more of a terrorist threat in many ways than ISIS,” Trump told a news conference at …

“Don’t be a fool,” Donald Trump warned his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an extraordinary letter sent the day Turkey launched its incursion into northeastern Syria – warning history risked branding him a “devil.” Three days after appearing to greenlight an invasion by pulling US troops from the Kurdish-dominated region, Trump told the Turkish president he would wreck Ankara’s economy …

The US won’t fight fellow NATO member Turkey over the Kurds in Syria, President Donald Trump has said, while also suggesting the Kurds may be releasing terrorist prisoners just to get the US involved. In early Monday tweets, Trump defended his decision to hastily pull American troops and negotiators from the north of Syria, where a Turkish military operation against …

US President Donald Trump has launched a harsh attack on NATO ally Turkey, threatening to destroy its economy if Ankara takes a planned military strike in Syria too far even though the US leader himself has opened the door for a Turkish incursion. Trump said he would “totally destroy and obliterate” Turkey’s economy if it took action in Syria that …

US Democrats have opened a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over allegations he sought help from a foreign power to damage a political rival. Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi said the president “must be held accountable”. Mr Trump has denied impropriety and called the efforts “garbage”. While there is strong support from Democrats on impeachment, if the inquiry moves …

Police in the US state of Oregon seized a number of weapons as hundreds of far-right protesters and counter-demonstrators rallied in the city of Portland on Saturday (local time). The far-right rally was organised by the Proud Boys, classified by a major US civil rights organisation as a hate group. The Proud Boys said the aim of gathering was to …