President Biden will announce a new weapons package for Ukraine when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Washington on Thursday, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Sources told Reuters that the package will be worth $325 million and is expected to include the...
The Chinese navy is conducting drills in the Yellow Sea after the US held joint naval exercises in the waters off northern China with Canada and South Korea. The US drills were carried out last week and included an amphibious ready group led by the USS America, an...
The US and its allies in the Group of Seven are preparing to support the proxy war in Ukraine for years to come, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. One unnamed official from a European G7 nation told the paper that the war could last six or seven more years and that the...
The State Department has confirmed that American citizen Gonzalo Lira is being held in a Ukrainian prison over charges related to his speech and views on the war in Ukraine. Lira is a popular YouTuber and journalist who was arrested by the Ukrainian Security Services...
The Pentagon has said that the government shutdown that will happen if Congress doesn't pass a funding bill by September 30 could hinder US support for Ukraine. Pentagon spokesman Chris Sherwood told POLITICO that the Defense Department's suspension of what is...
President Biden took aim at Russia at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday in a speech that revealed US hypocrisy on the war in Ukraine and other issues. Discussing arms control, President Biden accused Russia of "shredding longstanding arms control...
Negotiators representing Yemen's Houthis left Saudi Arabia on Tuesday after five days of talks aimed at reaching an agreement to end the eight-year conflict between the two parties. No deals were signed after the talks, but two sources told Reuters that some progress...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday that he would question Ukrainian President Volodoymr Zelensky about the money the US has spent on the war in Ukraine when the two meet later this week. When asked if he would commit to more aid for Ukraine, McCarthy said, "Is...
Azerbaijan on Tuesday launched a new assault against Nagorno-Karabakh in what appears to be the start of a new major war over the ethnic Armenian enclave. Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry said it started an "anti-terrorist" operation against Nagorno-Karabakh and demanded...
US and Saudi officials are discussing the terms of a potential mutual defense treaty that would be similar to pacts the US has with South Korea and Japan, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The discussions are part of a US effort to broker a normalization deal...
