Russian forces advance toward Ukraine’s Pokrovsk

Russian forces are just 1.5 km (1 mile) outside the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after Russian units pushed up from the south, and some advance groups of special forces have even entered the road and...

Israeli strike on Gaza post office kills 33 Palestinians, medics say

An Israeli strike on a post office sheltering Gaza residents killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 50, medics said, and the Israeli military said on Friday it had been targeting a senior Isla...

NATO head urges European members to go above 2% defense spending goal, cites Russia

NATO head Mark Rutte warned the U.S.-led transatlantic alliance on Thursday that it was not ready for the threats it would face from Russia in the coming years and called for a shift to a wartime m...

Tusk says no plans to send Polish troops to Ukraine in event of ceasefire

Poland has no plans to send troops to neighboring Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, amid speculation that Western powers could put boots on the ground there if a ceasefire is re...

US announces new missile package for Ukraine

The administration of Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden announced another package of weapons aid for Ukraine on Thursday, valued at $500 million, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a state...

South Korean President Yoon vows to “fight to the end”, defying impeachment threat

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Thursday he would "fight to the end" as his own political party shifted closer to voting with the opposition to impeach him over his short-lived martial...

Russia in contact with Syrian rebels, hopes to keep military bases, Interfax reports

Russia has established direct contact with the political committee of Syria's Islamist rebel group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bog...

Unidentified drones sighted over US air base in Germany, Spiegel reports

Unidentified drones have been sighted over sensitive industry locations and the U.S. air base at Ramstein in Germany in recent weeks, the Spiegel news magazine reported Friday — citing a confidenti...

US House passes record $895B defense spending bill

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a defense policy bill on Wednesday, governing a record $895 billion in annual military spending. Tap for the full brief.

Syria's Golani vows to punish those responsible for torture under Assad

The main commander of the fighters who toppled Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that anyone involved in the torture or killing of detainees during the ousted Syrian president's rule would be hunte...

US general monitors first withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon

A top U.S. military officer visited Beirut on Wednesday to monitor the withdrawal of the first Israeli troops from Lebanon under a ceasefire agreement reached last month, the U.S. Central Command (...

US defense contributions “unfair,” Europe needs to do more amid Russian expansionism, new Lithuanian defense minister says

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Russia vows response after Ukraine used US-made ATACMS to strike airfield

Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had struck a military airfield on the Azov Sea with six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, a move that could prompt Moscow to launch another experimental int...

US Senator proposes bill to have troops fix equipment instead of contractors

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing legislation that would make defense contractors give the U.S. military a "right to repair" its equipment, and require the Department of Defense to include...

US Indo-Pacific airfields can be taken out of action too easily, report says

Hypothetical Chinese strikes on airfields would stymie U.S. military aircraft in the Indo-Pacific region if there is a conflict, a new study says — recommending that the United States invest in che...