Israel signals tactics shift as US carrier heads home

Israel pulled tanks out of some Gaza City districts on Monday, residents said, as it announced plans to shift tactics and cut back on troop numbers, but fighting raged elsewhere in the Palestinian ...

Israel to pull some troops from Gaza as war enters new phase

Israel is withdrawing some forces from Gaza to shift to more targeted operations against Hamas, and is partially returning reservists to civilian life to help the economy as the war looks set to la...

Analysis: Chinese military purge exposes weakness, could widen

A sweeping purge of Chinese generals has weakened the People's Liberation Army, exposing deep-rooted corruption that could take more time to fix and slow Chinese leader Xi Jinping's military modern...

Israeli troops mistook slain hostages’ cries for help as ambush bait, military says

Israeli troops killed three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Dec. 15 when it mistook their cries for help as a ruse by Hamas militants to draw them into an ambush, the military said on Thursday, conclud...

Maine election official disqualifies Trump from presidential primary ballot

Maine on Thursday disqualified Donald Trump from the state ballot in next year’s U.S. presidential primary election, becoming the second state to bar the former president for his role in the Jan. 6...

Ukraine gives more details of latest alleged killing of POWs

Ukraine's Airborne Assault Troops said on Thursday that three servicemen who Ukrainian prosecutors have said were captured and shot dead by Russian forces this month were members of the 82nd Airbor...

NATO air forces scrambled over 300 times in 2023 due to Russian military aircraft

NATO air forces were scrambled more than 300 times in response to Russian military aircraft in 2023, the treaty organization said on Friday. Tap for the full brief.

Islamic State group-linked rebel commander killed in Ugandan rainforest, army says

Uganda's army said it killed a commander of a unit of the Islamist rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) blamed for a string of deadly attacks including a massacre at a boarding school. Tap for the ...

China urges regional alert as US steps up deployments

China's defense ministry on Thursday urged the Asia-Pacific to be on high alert as the United States steps up forward military deployment in the region, after reports of a U.S. plan to revive a Pac...

Israeli forces advance into Gaza’s Khan Younis after strikes trigger new mass exodus

Israeli tanks advanced into a town in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday after days of bombardment that forced tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to flee in a new exodus. T...

Turkey to reinforce military bases in Iraq after 12 soldiers killed

Turkey will reinforce its newly established permanent bases in northern Iraq in the coming months, after 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in the region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Ta...

China's military slams US after breakthrough talks

China's defense ministry lashed out at the United States on Thursday, a week after their top military officials resumed high-level talks, criticizing its continued meddling in the Asia Pacific regi...

Nikki Haley, asked about cause of US Civil War, doesn’t mention slavery, faces backlash

Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley declined on Wednesday night to say that slavery was one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War, an omission that drew swift rebukes from Democrats an...

Anti-war candidate says top Russian court backs barring her from challenging Putin

Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision to bar a former TV journalist who opposes the war in Ukraine from taking part in a presidential election in March, Yekaterina Duntsova, the would-be can...

US military's X-37B spaceplane ready for launch to higher orbit, SpaceX says

After weeks of false starts and delays, SpaceX teams prepared again on Thursday to launch the military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission, the first atop a rocket capable of ...