China's Taiwan Affairs Office said Wednesday that the purpose of recent large-scale Chinese military drills around Taiwan is to "combat the arrogance" of Taiwan "separatists," referring to recent actions by Taipei to boost ties with the US and other Western countries....
A US official spoke with a Druze spiritual leader to express support for protests against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that have been taking place in Syria's southern Suwayda governate. The US Embassy in Syria wrote on X that Deputy Assistant...
Iran has lodged a formal complaint to the UN accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of threatening a nuclear attack on the Islamic Republic. In his speech at the UN General Assembly last week, Netanyahu said, "Above all -- above all -- Iran must face a...
Ukraine asked its Western backers to bomb drone factories in Iran, Syria, and in Russia, The Guardian reported on Wednesday, citing a document Kyiv submitted to the G7 in August. In the document, Kyiv alleged that Iranian drones Russia has used to bombard Ukraine...
Senate leaders on Tuesday announced they reached a deal on a stopgap funding bill that needs to be passed by September 30 to avert a partial government shutdown. The bill includes $6.2 billion for Ukraine and $6 billion for natural disasters. "We will continue to fund...
Israeli Tourism Minister Haim Katz arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a UN conference, making him the first senior Israeli official to publicly visit the Kingdom, which comes as the US is pushing for a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal. "Tourism is a bridge between...
On Tuesday, the Kremlin said US-provided Abrams tanks in Ukraine will not impact Russia's operations and will "burn" like other Western armored vehicles. "There is no panacea, no single weapon that can change the balance of power on the battlefield," said Kremlin...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the Turkish parliament will ratify Sweden's NATO membership as long as the US follows through on its plans to sell Turkey F-16 fighter jets. Erdogan told NATO in July that Turkey's parliament would approve...
The Philippines is taking steps to retake Scarborough Shoal, a disputed chain of rocks and reefs in the South China Sea that has been effectively controlled by China since 2012. "Since the new administration took office, we have already strategized how we can take...
The commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet attended a Russian Defense Ministry video conference on Tuesday, a day after Ukraine claimed he was killed in a September 22 missile strike on the fleet's headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry...
