Iran warns ‘people should stay away from US bases’ as Tehran escalates attacks . Two U.S. service members were killed in action in Jordan during Iranian attacks on a U.S. base in Jordan on Friday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed Saturday. "On July 17, two U.S. service members in Jordan were killed in action as U.S. Central Command … and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks. Additionally, one service member is currently missing," CENTCOM wrote in a statement on X. Sunday July 18, 2026; Iran launched a series of retaliatory strikes on US military assets in Kuwait and Bahrain Saturday night and Sunday morning — after the US hit them earlier in the day as part of a rising series of strikes and counter-strikes between the two nations. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed they “destroyed eight important US military facilities at the Ali al-Salem base in Kuwait and at the Fifth Fleet naval base in Port Salman in Bahrain.” The mi...

As of July 16, 2026, in two months, our nation will mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attack. The hijackers ate in our Sarasota restaurants, shopped in our Sarasota stores and learned to fly planes into buildings here in Sarasota County. President George W. Bush read to schoolchildren here in Sarasota as the horror of their actions was relayed to him in a whisper. A mysterious family from Saudi Arabia with ties to the terrorists lived in the gated community of Prestancia Sarasota. Aside from New York City and Washington, D.C., perhaps no other place in the nation has more important connections to the events of Sept. 11, 2001 than Sarasota County. The unfinished business of Sept. 11 has slipped from public view, and when a nation forgets that justice has not been done, it stops demanding that it be. Prior to the Sept 11th terror attack, Imams of the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA) and Spies paid by Saudi GIP, worked hand in hand to assist logisticall...