Two members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in Israeli airstrikes that targeted the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday. The IRGC announced Friday that a military officer and advisor named Milad Heydari was killed in the Israeli...
Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian capital of Damascus early Friday morning for the second day in a row, marking the fifth time in March that Israel bombed Syria. Syria's state news agency SANA reported that Syrian air defenses "intercepted hostile targets" in the...
The Turkish parliament on Thursday unanimously ratified Finland's NATO membership, clearing the final hurdle to Helsinki joining the Western military alliance. Finland's ascension into NATO significantly expands the alliance's territory on Russia's border, as the...
The UN's top court on Thursday ruled that the US violated international law by freezing assets owned by Iranian companies. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Washington to pay compensation to Tehran, but the amount has yet to be determined, and the court...
Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou told a Chinese official Thursday that Beijing and Taipei must do everything possible to avoid a war. Ma met with Song Tao, the head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Ma arrived in China on Monday,...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told Congress on Wednesday that the US should be targeting Iran's Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following a drone attack in Syria that killed a US contractor. "We do know...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday that Russia will continue notifying the US of its missile tests despite its suspension of New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty remaining between Washington and Moscow. Earlier this week, the US...
Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus early Thursday morning and wounded two Syrian soldiers, Syria's SANA news agency has reported. The report said explosions were heard in Damascus at 1:30 am, and a Syrian military source said Syrian air defenses were "confronting hostile...
Update: Sen. Paul blocked the bill on Tuesday night (watch his floor speech here) Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) plans to block a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that would ban the popular video-sharing app TikTok, The Hill reported Wednesday. Hawley's bill, the No...
On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's cabinet approved a decision for Riyadh to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian security and economic bloc that was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, and several Central Asian countries. According to Saudi state...
