A populist party in Slovakia that opposes providing military assistance to Ukraine has won the country's elections, a vote that could significantly change the NATO member's foreign policy and support for the proxy war. Former Prime Minister Robert Fico, who leads the...
President Biden on Sunday told Congress to "stop playing games" and authorize the additional $24 billion in Ukraine aid that he's requested, which would bring total US spending on the proxy war to about $137 billion. Biden's comments came after Congress passed a...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged arms makers to produce weapons inside Ukraine in a speech opening Ukraine's first International Defense Industries Forum. "Right now, for the next decades, the most powerful defense-industrial complexes are being...
The Biden administration has quietly struck a deal with Ecuador to deploy troops to the country and patrol the waters off its coast to combat drug cartels, the Washington Examiner reported on Friday. Select members of Congress were informed of the agreements on...
Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a defense pact with the US in exchange for normalizing with Israel regardless of whether or not concessions are made to the Palestinians, Reuters reported Friday, citing regional sources. Riyadh is looking for a commitment from the...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Sunday said that comments made by his defense secretary about sending troops into Ukraine for training are part of long-term planning, not something the UK would do in the "here and now." British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps...
French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday and discussed joint weapons production a day before Ukraine will host a forum of international arms contractors. "I discussed with your ministers very...
Russian forces have gained more territory in Ukraine this year than the Ukrainian side despite the Ukrainian counteroffensive that was launched in June, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The report noted that despite nine months of heavy fighting in Ukraine,...
Australia on Thursday announced a restructuring of its army that's part of a military overhaul aimed at countering China, Australia's largest trading partner. The restructuring includes creating a long-range missile brigade in the southern city of Adelaide, the...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday claimed that China is seeking to become the "dominant" world power and wants to replace the US-led "liberal" world order. When asked by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg if Russia or China is a bigger "threat" to the US,...
