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Mike Glenn

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Mike Glenn grew up on Navy bases as the son of a career sailor but then decided to annoy his father and joined the Army after he graduated from high school in the Dallas area. He did a hitch as an enlisted soldier in Germany during the Cold War, where he spent a considerable amount of time in the field on maneuvers. After leaving the Army, he moved back home to northeast Texas and entered the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied history. He also took Army ROTC classes at UT Arlington and upon graduation received a commission as a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss in El Paso and took his platoon to the Middle East where he fought in the Gulf War. He got into journalism after Operation Desert Storm and has worked at newspapers and magazines throughout Texas. He joined The Washington Times from the Houston Chronicle. He can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.

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Palestinians help a wounded man after Israeli strikes in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza Strip, on June 8, 2024. The U.N. human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over the weekend. Office spokesman Jeremy Laurence expressed concerns about possible violations of rules of proportionality, distinction and precaution by the Israeli forces in Saturday’s raid at the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)

U.N. says Israeli raid that freed hostages may be war crime

A daring Israeli raid that secured the release of four hostages abducted by Hamas terrorists may have amounted to a war crime because of the number of Palestinians killed in the mission, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said Tuesday.

June 11, 2024
Ukrainian servicemen search a target with a US Stinger air defence missile launcher on the front line in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

U.S. again dipping into own warehouse to arm Ukraine

The Pentagon will ship about $225 million worth of military firepower to Ukraine in the first major security assistance package since the White House gave Kyiv approval to launch U.S.-provided weapons at military targets in Russia.

June 7, 2024
American WW II veteran Fred Taylor, right, and others hold roses during a wreath-laying ceremony at Utah Beach, Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at Utah Beach, Normandy,. World War II veterans from across the United States as well as Britain and Canada are in Normandy this week to mark 80 years since the D-Day landings that helped lead to Hitler's defeat. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

All eyes on D-Day heroes 80 years later: Biden, world leaders mark milestone anniversary

U.S. President Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and a slew of world leaders -- along with a dwindling few of the now-elderly soldiers, sailors and airmen who listened to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's address on June 6, 1944 --- will assemble again on the North Atlantic beaches of Normandy to commemorate what remains to this day still the largest amphibious operation in history.

June 5, 2024
Tires burn as Israeli forces Israeli forces operate in the Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday, June 1, 2024. The Israeli military said that its forces conducted counterterrorism activity in the area overnight. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel creates anti-terror unit focused on Gaza

Israeli military officials unveiled a new combat unit designed to counter terror attacks originating from the Gaza Strip and to secure communities in the vicinity of the Palestinian enclave.

June 5, 2024