The US and Japan on Wednesday announced steps to strengthen military cooperation to better confront China after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with their Japanese counterparts in Washington. The meeting came after the...
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said last week that Ukraine is "shedding blood" for a "NATO mission" in candid remarks about the relationship between Kyiv and the Western military alliance. "At the NATO Summit in Madrid (in June 2022), it was clearly...
Britain and Japan signed a "landmark" military agreement on Wednesday while Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with his British counterpart, Rishi Sunak, in London. The Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) will allow each nation to deploy troops to the other's...
Taiwan's Defense Ministry revealed on Wednesday that it has sent some of its military officers to a NATO war college in Italy, acknowledging cooperation with the Western military alliance that is sure to anger China. One Taiwanese air force officer, Lt. Col. Wu...
Poland's president said Wednesday that Warsaw has decided to send Ukraine a company of German-made Leopard 2 tanks as part of an "international coalition," although it's not yet clear if Berlin has signed off on the delivery. "A company of Leopard tanks will be handed...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday night and insisted that Ukraine would win the war against Russia and that the conflict would not turn into "World War III." Zelensky delivered a pre-recorded video address that was...
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock made an unannounced visit to the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday as Berlin is under growing pressure to provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks. Berlin recently pledged to send Ukraine its Marder armored...
The head of the private Russian military firm Wagner Group said Tuesday that the mercenaries have taken control of the town of Soledar in the eastern Ukrainian oblast of Donetsk. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said that fighting was still ongoing in the center of the...
Israel's former military intelligence chief has said Israel convinced the US that Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani posed an "immediate threat" to American soldiers, the same language former President Trump used to justify his assassination at the time, although no...
The US wants to deploy units of Marines armed with missiles along Japan's Okinawa islands as part of a military buildup aimed at China, the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun has reported. The report said that the US is looking to deploy the Marines by 2026 and that...
