The US is eyeing remote Australian islands as a potential location for a new military base as part of its buildup against China in the region. According to Defense One, the US Navy recently published a construction tender that says the Cocos Islands, which are located...
US missile strikes continue to pound Yemen as the Middle East is on edge awaiting Iran's response to the Israeli assassination of Hamas's political chief in Tehran. The Yemeni news agency Saba reported two US-British strikes in the Taiz province, which is on the...
Sergey Shoigu, the head of Russia's Security Council, warned Tuesday that the longer the war in Ukraine goes on, the higher the cost will be for Ukraine to achieve peace. "Each day it waits to make this decision [to settle the conflict] results in the loss of control...
On Tuesday, Hamas named Yahya Sinwar, the group's leader in Gaza, to head the political bureau after the Israeli killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Before he was killed last week, Haniyeh served as the highest-level Hamas official outside of Gaza and was the public...
The majority of Americans oppose the idea of US troops being used to defend Israel if it comes under attack by Iran, according to a poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs that was released on Tuesday. The poll, conducted from June 21–July 1, 2024,...
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed in a televised speech on Tuesday that the Lebanese group would have a "strong" response to the Israeli killing of a high-level Hezbollah commander. Nasrallah delivered the speech during a ceremony that marked one week...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to avoid civilian casualties in Iran's expected reprisal attack on Israel for the killing of Hamas's political chief in Tehran, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing two unnamed...
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Monday that Ukraine had received $3.9 billion from the US in the form of "direct budgetary aid," which is disbursed directly to the Ukrainian government through the World Bank. The aid is meant to fund government services,...
The US military announced Monday that its forces have completed a withdrawal from Air Base 201 in Niger well ahead of a September 15 deadline for US forces to exit the country. "The US Department of Defense and the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Niger...
On Monday, the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, met with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi in Tel Aviv as the two militaries are preparing to defend Israel from an expected Iranian reprisal attack. Kurilla also...
