Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned Friday that the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) can't become a "proxy" for any country as tensions between the US and China are soaring in the region. "ASEAN cannot be a competition, it can't be a...
The House on Friday passed its version 2024 National Defense Authorization Act in a vote of 219-210, which largely fell along partisan lines due to amendments added by Republicans relating to social policies in the military. The Republican amendments covered abortion,...
The House on Thursday night voted down an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that would have prohibited the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine. The amendment was led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and failed in a vote of 147-276. The...
President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order allowing the Pentagon to mobilize 3,000 reservists for deployments in Europe, where the US military has significantly increased its presence since Russia invaded Ukraine. Since February 2022, the US has deployed...
The Washington Post reported Thursday that US officials at the NATO summit in Vilnius were so angry over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's criticism that they almost scaled back the commitment made to Ukraine in NATO's communiqué. As the alliance was working on...
Hungary has said it will approve Sweden's NATO bid now that Turkey has dropped its objection, but both the Hungarian and Turkish parliaments will not take up the issue until the fall. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that his country's parliament...
A US Navy spy plane flew over the Taiwan Strait on Thursday as China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) was conducting drills to the south of Taiwan. The US Navy's Seventh Fleet announced the flight of the Navy P-8A Poseidon, and Taiwan's Defense Ministry said the plane...
A Ukrainian general told CNN on Thursday that Ukraine has received a shipment of US cluster bombs, controversial munitions that have a devastating impact on civilians. "We just got them, we haven’t used them yet, but they can radically change the situation on...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia will view US-made F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine as a nuclear threat because they are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. "We have informed the nuclear powers, the United States, Britain and France, that...
President Biden's nominee to replace Gen. Mark Milley as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday that he would pursue establishing more bases in the Indo-Pacific region and increase support for Taiwan to prepare for a future war with China, Nikkei Asia...
