Update: The US and Britain have begun bombing dozens of sites in Yemen using Tomahawk missiles launched from warships and airstrikes from fighter jets, US officials have told The Associated Press. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has authorized joint airstrikes with...
More than $1 billion in weapons that were shipped to Ukraine have not been properly tracked by the Pentagon, a report from the Defense Department's inspector general has found. The report examined $1.699 billion in weapons sent to Ukraine that are subject to enhanced...
The White House has thrown its support behind legislation that's been introduced in Congress that would allow the use of frozen Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine, Bloomberg reported. About $300 billion in Russian central bank assets was frozen by the US and...
Iran seized an American tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday in retaliation for the US previously seizing the same tanker and stealing a shipment of Iranian oil that it was carrying. In April 2023, the US forced the tanker, formerly named Suez Rajan, to sail to...
South African officials and lawyers on Thursday made their case at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to show that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza. The over three-hour hearing was an indictment of the US-backed...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday insisted Israel doesn't plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza or permanently occupy the territory, a shift in rhetoric that comes a day before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds its first hearing on...
Poland has resisted efforts to investigate the 2022 bombings of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia and Germany, raising suspicion that the Polish government could have had knowledge of the attack, The Wall Street Journal reported. The leading...
Japan has resumed construction work on a landfill for the relocation of a US military base in Okinawa despite strong opposition from the island's governor and residents. Japan's central government overrode Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki's objections to resume the...
Yemen's Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, said Wednesday that its forces attacked a US ship in the Red Sea as part of an "initial response" to a recent incident where the US military sank three Houthis boats, killing 10 Yemenis. Houthi military spokesman Yahya...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has reiterated his desire to end the presence of US and other international forces in Iraq and said he is looking to negotiate a "quick" exit, although so far no deadline has been set. "There is a need to reorganize this...
