The US has deployed an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East to demonstrate support for Israel amid soaring tensions on the Lebanon-Israel border. The Pentagon announced that the USS Wasp arrived in the eastern Mediterranean Sea last week. The deployment comes...
Israel has ordered Palestinians to evacuate from the eastern portion of Khan Younis, signaling its forces are preparing to re-invade the southern Gaza city, which has mostly been destroyed by the previous Israeli assault. Many of the over one million Palestinian...
On Monday, Finland's parliament unanimously approved a new Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with the US that gives the US military access to 15 bases in the Nordic nation, which shares an over 800-mile border with Russia. One of the places where the US can now...
The US military has again removed the pier it built off the coast of Gaza due to seas it cannot handle, and the floating structure will be towed to the Israeli port of Ashdod, the Pentagon announced on Friday. Since its construction, the pier has barely brought any...
The US has given Israel a massive number of heavy munitions since October 7, including 14,000 of the highly destructive MK-84 2,000-pound bombs that have been repeatedly dropped on civilians in Gaza, Reuters reported on Saturday. Two US officials told Reuters that the...
Hezbollah and Israel continue to trade strikes along the border, with mounting fears that months of such exchange of fire is escalating into full-scale war. Israel fired four missiles at a two-story building in the southern Lebanese village of Houla, on Sunday,...
Iran's mission to the UN has warned Israel that a full-scale attack on Lebanon would result in an "obliterating war" that could involve all of Iran's allies in the region. The mission wrote on X that it believes Israel's recent threats against Lebanon could be...
Ukrainian officials are pushing NATO countries to impose a no-fly zone over western Ukraine using air defense systems in eastern Europe, a step that would mean direct NATO involvement in the war with Russia. "I don’t understand why NATO doesn’t deploy Patriot systems...
On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia should follow the US in developing missile systems that were previously banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019. The INF prohibited land-based missile...
Amid recent escalations in the Ukraine proxy war, the Russian Federation is considering downgrading relations with the West, though no decision has been made yet. This comes less than a week after Kiev launched long-range missile strikes on Crimea, leaving four...
