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Mike Glenn

mglenn@washingtontimes.com

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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With his face painted in the colors of the Iranian flag, a man weeps as he waves Iranian and Palestinian flags in the annual rally to mark Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, in support of Palestinians, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 5, 2024. In the rally in Tehran, thousands attended a funeral procession for the seven Revolutionary Guard members killed in an airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran's Consulate in the Syrian capital on Monday. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran launches major drone attack against Israel

Iran on Saturday launched a coordinated drone attack on Israel, according to Israeli and U.S. officials, as Tehran brushed off warnings from the Biden administration and appeared willing to escalate its standoff with Jerusalem.

April 13, 2024
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., speaks to reporters as Republicans meet to decide who to nominate to be the new House speaker, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pay raises, affordable child care recommended for U.S. military

A bipartisan congressional panel examining the quality of life for U.S. service members wants to raise the pay for junior military personnel by 15%, expand allowances for housing and food, and increase access to affordable child care.

April 12, 2024
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a defendants’ cage for a hearing in Moscow, Russia, on April 18, 2023. The 32-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested in late March 2023 and accused of espionage, charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government all deny. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian diplomat says Moscow and Washington discussing prisoner swap through third party

The U.S. and Russia are in secret discussions about a possible prisoner swap that could see the return of jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a Marine Corps veteran and corporate security executive now serving a 16-year jail prison sentence on espionage charges, according to a Russian state media report.

April 12, 2024
Then-Lt. Gen. Michael "Erik" Kurilla gives a speech March 5, 2021, in Fort Campbell, Ky. (Spc. Andrea Notter/U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

U.S. Central Command general visiting Israel as Iran threatens attack

The head of U.S. Central Command traveled to Israel Thursday for high-level discussions with military officials about Iran's threat to launch an attack against the Jewish state in retaliation for an Israeli air strike that killed a top Iranian general in Syria last week.

April 11, 2024
This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines around the scene at Abbey Gate outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan, after a suicide bomber detonated an explosion. The Taliban killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 service members and about 170 Afghans. That is according to the father of a Marine killed in the attack who was briefed on April 25, 2023, by military officials. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

Pentagon wraps up added review of bombing that marred Afghan withdrawal

Military officials are notifying family members of U.S. troops killed in the August 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan about the findings of an additional investigation into the attack that occurred during the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan, U.S. officials said over the weekend.

April 8, 2024
This photo taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, shows a Su-25 ground attack jet of the Russian air force firing rockets during a mission over Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) **FILE**

Russians accidentally shoot down one of their own jet fighters, say U.K. officials

The Russians claim a "technical failure" was responsible for them shooting down one of their own fighter jets last month. However, there is a realistic possibility that fear of increased Ukrainian air attacks may have prompted Russian air defenders to inadvertently engage their own aircraft, British officials said over the weekend.

April 8, 2024