Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed frustration over the Biden administration's efforts to convict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. "There is nothing to be served by his ongoing incarceration," Albanese said Friday while in...
Zakhar Prilepin, a prominent Russian novelist and supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, was injured in a deadly car bombing in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod oblast on Saturday. Prilepin said Sunday that he broke two legs in the attack, and his driver was killed by the...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group, said he was promised his fighters would get as much ammunition and weapons as needed to continue fighting in Bakhmut. The assurance from Moscow came after Prigozhin said his forces would...
On Sunday, the Arab League voted to readmit Syria, marking a significant step in Damascus' efforts to normalize relations with regional countries. Syria was suspended from the Arab League at the outbreak of war in 2011, and many of the bloc's members threw their...
The US and the Philippines on Wednesday agreed on new guidelines for the 1951 US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty that formalize the US commitment to going to war if Philippine vessels come under attack in the South China Sea. For years now, US officials have pledged...
A White House National Security Council official told The National that the Biden administration was "encouraged" by a meeting between Syrian and other Arab foreign ministers that took place in Amman on Monday. The comments mark a significant shift in rhetoric from...
President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order expanding his authorities to impose sanctions on Sudan over the conflict that broke out between rival generals on April 15. Forces loyal to Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s army chief and de facto leader, have been...
A US MQ-9 Reaper drone was fired at by a Russian SA-22 Pantsir air defense system in Syria back in November, a US official told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The incident was first revealed by one of the Pentagon documents allegedly leaked by Jack Teixeira. The US...
According to a report from The New Arab, the leader of the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has slammed Saudi Arabia for its normalization deal with Iran. In a video released earlier this week, AQAP head Khalid Batarfi said Riyadh was conceding...
NATO is planning to open a liaison office in Japan next year, the alliance's first in Asia, Nikkei Asia reported Wednesday. In recent years, NATO has turned its gaze toward the Asia Pacific region and named China a "systemic challenge" in its 2022 Strategic Concept....
