Turkey’s combative president is threatening to launch a military operation in northeastern Syria that is designed to push back U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish forces — an invasion that carries major risks for a highly combustible region in war-devastated Syria.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that the U.S. intends to prevent any unilateral invasion by Turkey into northern Syria, saying any such move by the Turks would be unacceptable.
Like most of the 10 wrecks previously discovered, this one is entombed in the muck, a ghostly witness to America's fight for freedom, shrouded with a mound of silt and oyster shells.
Mallows Bay is known for its "Ghost Fleet," including partly submerged remains of more than 100 wooden steamships that were built in response to threats from World War I-era German U-boats.
The image has long outlasted that day's news cycle: When Matt Miller meets someone with a connection to the Saratoga, they usually remember that photo.
By Matt Soergel, (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union via the AP
The veering of the plane during landing was among new details released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating why the plane ended up in the St. Johns River at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.