Colombia death toll from rebel violence rises to 80

The National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas are targeting community leaders and former members of a separate rebel group in the northeastern Catatumbo region, Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said...

US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned on Sunday in the United S...

Hamas set to release first hostages under Gaza ceasefire deal on Sunday, Israel says

The Palestinian militant group Hamas is expected to release the first hostages under a Gaza ceasefire deal on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Friday, after 15 mon...

Iraq wants Iran-backed factions to lay down weapons, foreign minister says

Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or join official security forces, For...

Ukrainian brigade pioneers unmanned ground assaults

The boxy, machine gun-equipped vehicle lumbered across the snow-covered battlefield, with no crew aboard and marking what its remote Ukrainian operators described as a major milestone as Russian ar...

Colombia's president accuses ELN rebels of war crime, suspends peace talks

Colombian President Gustavo Petro suspended peace talks with the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN), on Friday, after accusing the group of committing a war crime in the Catatumbo region. Tap f...

Trump picks Troy Meink as Air Force secretary

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At least 12 Indians killed serving in Russian armed forces, India says

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Norwegian F-35s deployed after Russian aircraft entered Polish airspace, NATO says

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Azerbaijan suspends cooperation with USAID, foreign minister says

Azerbaijan has refused to renew its cooperation agreement with The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said Thursday, accusing Washington of...

Iran and Russia can finalize nuclear plant agreements, Pezeshkian tells Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian held talks in Moscow on Friday ahead of the signing of a strategic partnership treaty involving closer defense coopera...

Trump advisors say Ukraine peace deal months away

Advisors to President-elect Donald Trump said that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise - to strike a peace deal on his ...

Gaza residents say Israeli strikes kill at least 70 ahead of January 19 ceasefire implementation

Israel airstrikes killed at least 70 people in Gaza overnight on Thursday, residents and authorities in the enclave said, hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced to bring an ...

Project 2025 author Vought tells confirmation panel presidents can withhold authorized spending

Donald Trump's choice to oversee the federal budget, Russell Vought, defended the U.S. president-elect's goal of cutting spending by refusing to spend money that Congress has already authorized at ...

State nominee Rubio expected to be confirmed, warns against China reliance

Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, warned on Wednesday that the U.S. must change course to avoid becoming more reliant on China, as he promised a rob...