A new US intelligence report has reaffirmed that Iran is not trying to build nuclear weapons despite constant claims made by Israel and Western media outlets to the contrary. "Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities that would...
NATO is set to drop the requirement for Ukraine to go through a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to join the alliance, AFP reported on Monday. The MAP is designed to ensure aspiring NATO members make reforms to meet certain political, economic, and military standards to...
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said Sunday that it launched three airstrikes in Somalia and claimed the bombardment killed 10 al-Shabaab fighters. The command said the strikes were launched in a remote area about 65 miles north of Kismaayo, a port city in southern...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to back Sweden's NATO membership on the eve of a two-day NATO summit in Lithuania. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Erdogan has agreed to submit Sweden's accession protocols to Turkey's Parliament, the...
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said Monday that he will be the Republican co-sponsor of an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that aims to block the provision of cluster bombs to Ukraine. The amendment was introduced by Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) and...
US Central Command on Sunday said that it killed an ISIS "leader" in a drone strike in eastern Syria that it launched on July 7 and suggested that a civilian may have also been injured in the bombing. "On July 7, US Central Command conducted a strike in Syria that...
NATO will push back a decision to open a liaison office in Japan to this fall or later due to French objections to the plans, Nikkei Asia reported on Monday. The alliance wanted to formally enshrine the Japan office in NATO documents at the two-day summit in Vilnius,...
A Kremlin spokesman said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his short-lived mutiny. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the meeting took place on June 29 at the Kremlin and lasted three hours. The talks were...
A senior State Department official said Friday that the US was looking at building relationships with Southeast Asian nations to "push back" against China in the South China Sea. Daniel Kritenbrink, the US assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs, made...
President Biden said Friday that Ukraine won't be brought into NATO anytime soon but said he was willing to give Kyiv support similar to what the US provides Israel. "I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family...
