Russia announced Monday that it was suspending its participation in a deal that was signed last year to facilitate the export of grain from Ukraine's Black Sea ports. Another aspect of the deal was that the UN agreed to help remove obstacles to the export of Russian...
The Crimean Bridge that links Crimea to the Russian mainland was again targeted by Ukrainian forces in a bombing early Monday morning that killed two civilians and injured a child. Russian authorities said the Crimean Bridge, also known as the Kerch Bridge, was...
Belarus announced Friday that members of the Wagner mercenary force were in the country training Belarusian soldiers. The Belarusian Defense Ministry said Wagner members were training soldiers in Osipovichi, a town about 60 miles southeast of Minsk. The ministry did...
A senior Defense Intelligence Agency official has described the war in Ukraine as a "stalemate" and said none of the weapons the US and NATO are providing will help Ukrainian forces "break through" in their counteroffensive. “Certainly we are at a bit of a stalemate,"...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia has a "sufficient" supply of cluster munitions to use if Ukraine employs the controversial weapons. The US has started shipping cluster bombs to Ukraine even though the weapons are notorious for killing and...
The White House said Friday that the 3,000 reservists President Biden has made available for the Pentagon to deploy to Europe would serve "administrative" functions. "These are people that are specialists in things like administrative functions, logistics, supply,...
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...
