On Tuesday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen hosted a US congressional delegation led by Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK), the second time within a week that a group of US lawmakers visited the island. Hern is the head of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) and expressed...
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow and other areas inside Russia would not be possible without support from the US and NATO. The comments came after the Russian military said it downed five drones that attacked Moscow on...
NATO on Tuesday agreed to extend Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg's term by another year as the alliance wants to stick with a familiar leader amid its raging proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Stoltenberg is a Norwegian politician and former prime minister of...
President Biden announced Monday that he will nominate Elliott Abrams to the bipartisan United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, CNN has reported. Abrams is a neoconservative hawk who led the Trump administration's failed Venezuela regime change effort,...
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called for US nuclear weapons to be deployed to Poland in response to Russia sending tactical nukes to Belarus. Morawiecki said Warsaw wants to join NATO's nuclear sharing program, under which US nuclear weapons are...
The White House has expressed support for a major Israeli offensive that was launched against the occupied West Bank city of Jenin early Monday. "We support Israel’s security and right to defend its people against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist...
Taiwan's purchase of a mine-laying system from the US has sparked protest from opposition politicians as they don't want Taiwan to become an "island of landmines," The South China Morning Post reported on Monday. The Taiwanese Defense Ministry announced last week that...
CIA Director William Burns said in a speech on Saturday that the war in Ukraine provides his spy agency a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to recruit Russians. "Disaffection with the war will continue to gnaw away at the Russian leadership, beneath the steady diet...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reaffirmed his position that the war in Ukraine will not end until Ukrainian forces take Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014. "We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And while Crimea is under the Russian...
The Biden administration last week approved two potential arms deals for Taiwan worth $440 million amid heightened tensions between the US and China. According to the Pentagon's Defense Security and Cooperation Agency (DSCA), one deal is for 30mm ammunition and...
