Russia accuses Ukraine of killing 65 of its own POWs by shooting down plane

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of deliberately shooting down a Russian military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange in what it called a barbaric act ...

Houthis order US, British nationals to leave Yemen

Yemen's Houthis have ordered U.S. and British staff of the United Nations and Sanaa-based humanitarian organizations to leave the country within a month, a document and a Houthi official said Wedne...

Russia probing for Ukraine weaknesses as US funding stalls, US official says

Russia's military is carrying out probing attacks with barrages of missiles and drones in an attempt to find weaknesses in Ukraine's military as U.S. funding for security assistance is tied up in C...

US strikes two more Houthi anti-ship missiles in Yemen

The U.S. military carried out more strikes in Yemen early on Wednesday, destroying two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were aimed at the Red Sea and were preparing to launch, the U.S. military said ...

Russian anti-war candidate tries to harness protest vote against Putin

Boris Nadezhdin, a 60-year-old former opposition lawmaker, is running a long-shot campaign to challenge Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency and says his call to end Russia's war in Ukraine ha...

Analysis: Netanyahu faces doubts over goals, strategy and post-war plans

Over 100 days into Israel's campaign to destroy Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being challenged by members of his own war cabinet about strategy, pressured by Washington over post-war ...

Israel suffers highest one-day death toll in Gaza as 24 soldiers killed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Israel would not stop fighting in Gaza until "absolute victory" after it sustained its highest single-day death toll in the Palestinian encla...

Turkey to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid after 20 month delay

Turkey's parliament is widely expected to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to expanding the Western military alliance after 20 months of delays. T...

Gaza hostage relatives burst into Israeli parliament, calls for action mount

A group of relatives of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Monday, demanding that the lawmakers do more to try to free the...

Latest strikes on Yemen's Houthis destroyed intended targets, UK says

U.S. and British forces carried out a new round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities used by the Iran-aligned ...

US pledges $45M to boost coastal West Africa security

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged $45 million in additional financing to help fight conflict and bring stability to coastal West Africa, where insecurity linked to jihadist ...

Moldovan separatist leader calls for military readiness

The leader of Moldova's pro-Russian separatist Transdniestria region called on its defence and intelligence institutions on Monday to maintain a "high level of military preparedness" and hold regul...

US seeks probe into West Bank death of Palestinian-American teenager

The United States on Monday called for an investigation and for accountability "as appropriate" following the West Bank death of a 17-year-old Palestinian American, who Palestinian health officials...

US Navy declares two SEALs missing in Gulf of Aden as deceased

Two U.S. Navy SEALs who went missing in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month during a raid on a boat carrying Iranian weapons have not been located following an exhaustive search and their status ha...

US personnel suffer minor wounds in Iraq base attack, US official says

U.S. personnel suffered minor injuries and a member of Iraq's security forces was wounded in an attack on Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base on Saturday, a U.S. official said on Saturday, speaking on cond...