Scores Killed as Afghan Fighting Spreads to Several Provinces | Afghan Army claims progress in Ghazni, but locals say outposts have fallen
Scores Killed as Afghan Fighting Spreads to Several Provinces
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Iran’s President Optimistic on Progress of Vienna Talks
Iran’s foreign minister said the onus is on the US to revive the deal
At Least Five Shi’ite Militiamen Killed in Israeli Drone Strike on Syria
At Least Five Shi’ite Militiamen Killed in Israeli Drone Strike on Syria | Hezbollah commander among the slain in strike
Alaska: US Military Exercise Implements New Doctrine To Confront Russia in the Arctic
The large-scale Northern Edge war games commenced a week ago in and off the coast of Alaska. An estimated 15,000 service members from the U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy are participating in the two-week event along with six ships and 240 aircraft. The Air...
Envoy Says US Will Back Republic If Taliban Rejects Peace
Envoy Says US Will Back Republic If Taliban Rejects Peace | Taliban not intending to try to take power militarily
At Least 70 Killed in Car Bombing of School in Afghanistan’s Kabul
At Least 70 Killed in Car Bombing of School in Afghanistan’s Kabul | Slain were mostly girls from surrounding Shi’ite neighborhood
Wall Street Journal: US Could Deploy Military to Central Asia After Afghan Withdrawal
The May 8 edition of the Wall Street Journal ran a feature titled Afghan Pullout Leaves U.S. Looking for Other Places to Station Its Troops which explores options the Pentagon is entertaining to station troops and equipment for an ongoing military role in Afghanistan....
Syria Commemorates Russian Victory in World War II, Warns of Contemporary Parallels
The Syrian government news agency reports today on an event at the nation’s Damascus Opera House (Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts) in which Syrian cultural figures and government officials commemorated Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. Russian...
Theoretical Russian Aggression: Pentagon Leads Large-Scale Airborne Exercises in Baltic, Black Seas
U.S. Army Europe is now conducting the annual Swift Response airborne exercise in that part of the world where war games have become nearly a daily occurrence: Eastern Europe from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The 30,000-troop, 27-nation DEFENDER-Europe 21 war games...
VE Day: Ukrainian Officials Imply Conflict With Russia Equivalent to Nazi Invasion
On the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World War Two in Europe (Victory in Europe Day to much of the world), what since the 2014 coup in Ukraine has been celebrated as the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, President...
