A State Department official has told Rudaw that the US has no plans to withdraw its troops from Syria. The US has about 900 troops in eastern Syria and backs the Kurdish-led SDF, allowing Washington to control and occupy about one-third of the country's territory. The...
Ukrainian drones injured eight workers from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant while they were at a nearby electrical substation, Russia's Rosatom nuclear power company said on Wednesday. The site of the substation is about 2.5 miles from the ZNPP, which has come...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of a ceasefire with Russia in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday. The Ukrainian leader said he wouldn't accept a ceasefire that leaves Russian forces in areas of Ukraine they have captured and said Russian...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Biden on Thursday that he agreed to send a delegation for renewed indirect hostage deal negotiations with Hamas. The conversation came a day after Hamas said it gave new "ideas" to Qatari mediators that US and...
On Thursday, the Philippines said the US was pulling out a new missile system it deployed to the Southeast Asian country for annual military exercises. The US sent the Typhon missile system for the Balikatan exercises, which were held in April and May. The Typhon is a...
NATO allies have agreed to pledge $43 billion in military aid for Ukraine, which will be provided next year, Reuters reported on Wednesday. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was looking for the alliance to make a multi-year commitment to ensure long-term support...
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu retweeted a post on X promoting a t-shirt that calls for the Israeli "conquest" of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel occupied from 1967-1982, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The t-shirt shows a picture of what...
Israel's latest evacuation order for eastern Khan Younis has "wiped out" the UN's efforts to improve aid deliveries via the Kerem Shalom border crossing in southern Gaza, the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. "We have...
The Chinese Coast Guard detained a Taiwanese fishing boat and its crew off the coast of Kinmen, Taiwanese-controlled islands that are located a few miles off the coast of mainland China. China has increased patrols around Kinmen, known as Quemoy on the mainland, since...
On Wednesday, Russia said it would respond to Finland's move to allow the US access to military bases inside the Nordic nation, which joined NATO last year and shares an over 800-mile border with Russia. Under a new Defense Cooperation Agreement that was ratified by...
