US and Western officials speaking to The New York Times blamed Ukraine's struggling counteroffensive on Kyiv's tactics, saying Ukrainian troops are too spread out. US officials said that Ukraine's primary goal is to sever Russia's land bridge to Crimea but that...
Airports in Moscow temporarily halted service for the second day in a row on Tuesday as Ukrainian drones again targeted the region, part of Kyiv's strategy to bring the war to Russian civilians. Andrey Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow Oblast, said two drones were...
Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that Russia has been moving nuclear weapons into Belarus and said the deployment changes the "security architecture" of the region. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the first Russian nukes started arriving in Belarus...
Israeli airstrikes near the Syrian capital of Damascus late Monday wounded at least one Syrian soldier, Syria's SANA news agency has reported. "At around 11:55 this evening, the Israeli enemy carried out a guided missile attack from the direction of the occupied...
A Ukrainian military official suggested to The Washington Post that Ukrainian forces are not documenting where they're using US-provided cluster bombs in Ukraine despite assurances the Biden administration said it received. The official, who only went by his first...
On Monday, Australia's biggest warship participated in drills with the Philippines and the US in the disputed South China Sea as part of Canberra and Manila's first-ever bilateral amphibious exercises. The drills, dubbed Exercise Alon, kicked off on August 14 and will...
On Sunday, Denmark and the Netherlands became the first countries to pledge they will provide Ukraine with US-made F-16 fighter jets following formal US approval of the transfer. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Denmark will "hopefully" provide Ukraine...
China on Monday hit back at the US, South Korea, and Japan after the leaders of the three nations accused Beijing of "dangerous and aggressive" behavior in the South China Sea. The accusation was made in a joint statement issued by President Biden, Japanese Prime...
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a press release last week that it launched an airstrike in Somalia on August 15. According to the command, the strike was conducted in support of the US-backed Mogadishu-based government, whose forces were engaged with al-Shabaab...
A tanker carrying 800,000 barrels of stolen Iranian oil began unloading its cargo off the coast of Texas on Sunday despite Iranian warnings of retaliation, The Associated Press reported. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Suez Rajan was seized by the US under the...
