Mali court sentences man to death over UN peacekeeper deaths

BAMAKO (Reuters) - A court in Mali has sentenced a man to death over a 2019 attack that killed three United Nations peacekeepers, the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA said on Wednesday without nami...

US to send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine

 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States announced on Wednesday it will supply Ukraine with 31 advanced M1 Abrams tanks worth $400 million in a matter of months, a decision that helped break a...

Germany to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, US and allies also poised

BERLIN/KYIV (Reuters) -Germany cleared the way on Wednesday for Europe to send scores of battle tanks to Ukraine, and Washington was poised make a similar announcement - moves hailed by Kyiv as...

Germany starts deploying Patriot air defense units to Poland

GNOIEN, Germany (Reuters) - Germany on Monday dispatched the first two out of three Patriot air defence units that will be sent to the Polish town of Zamosc close to the Ukrainian border where ...

Iraq raids networks smuggling US dollars to Iran

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Under pressure from Washington to stem the flow of dollars into Iran, Iraq's prime minister sent elite counter-terrorism forces more accustomed to battling Islamist militants...

Rwanda shoots at Congolese fighter jet over alleged airspace violation

KIGALI (Reuters) -Rwandan forces on Tuesday fired at a fighter jet from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that it said had violated its airspace, prompting the Congolese government to accuse i...

Trainer plane crashes in Philippines, killing 2 air force pilots

MANILA (Reuters) - Two Philippine military pilots were killed when their plane crashed during a training flight on Wednesday, the air force said. The SF-260 TP Marchetti was seen going down int...

India, Egypt to deepen military cooperation

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India and Egypt will seek to deepen military cooperation, including between their defence industries, India's foreign secretary said on Wednesday. Egyptian President Abdel Fa...

California staggered by deadly back-to-back mass shootings

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (Reuters) -Just two days after a gunman killed 11 people at a Los Angeles-area dance studio, seven more victims were shot dead in an agricultural area near San Francisco, ...

Finland says time-out needed in talks with Turkey over NATO bid

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland's foreign minister said on Tuesday a time-out of a few weeks was needed in Finland and Sweden's talks with Turkey on their application to join the NATO military alli...

Ukraine purges officials and governors in biggest shake-up of war

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine dismissed more than a dozen senior officials including governors of several major battlefield provinces on Tuesday in the biggest shake-up of its wartime leadership sinc...

Poland requests re-export of 14 tanks to Ukraine, swipes at German “delays”

BERLIN/WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland on Tuesday said it had submitted a formal request asking Germany to allow the re-export of its Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, cranking up pressure on Berlin on...

Russia, Syria restore Syrian air base for joint use

(Reuters) - Russia and Syria have restored the al-Jarrah military air base in Syria's north to be jointly used, Russia's Defence Ministry said late on Monday. "Russian and Syrian military personne...

US says it captured two Islamic State group members in Syria

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American forces have captured two Islamic State members during an air and ground assault in eastern Syria, the U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement released o...

Ex-FBI official worked for sanctioned Russian oligarch, prosecutors say

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former top FBI official was charged on Monday with working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, as U.S. prosecutors ramp up efforts to enforce sanctions on Russ...