Polish armed forces chief says country needs to boost its army

Poland will need a much larger army, something that could be hard to achieve given its aging population, if it is to defend itself from what seems to be a war this generation will inevitably face, ...

Philippines launches naval drills with allies amid regional tension

The armed forces of the Philippines, the United States and four other countries began joint naval exercises off the coast of the Philippines' northern Luzon island facing Taiwan in a display of nav...

Freed Russian arms dealer Bout back in arms trade, WSJ reports

Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer who was jailed in the United States and then swapped two years ago for the U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, is back in international arms trade, the Wall S...

Supreme Court rejects Martin Shkreli's penalty appeal in drug price hike case

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear former pharmaceutical company CEO Martin Shkreli's challenge to a $64.6 million financial penalty imposed by a judge — after he raised a lifesaving dr...

Biden says he does not believe there will be “all-out war” in Middle East

President Joe Biden said on Thursday he did not believe there is going to be an "all-out war" in the Middle East, a region that has been on edge amid Israel's assaults in Gaza and Lebanon and escal...

1,000 troops deployed as Biden, Harris view Helene damage

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia on Wednesday to see first hand the devastation wrought in the U.S. Southeast by Hurricane Hel...

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon stay put, despite Israel asking them to move

United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon remain in place - despite Israel asking them to move - and provide the only communications link between the countries' militaries, the U.N. peacekeep...

Former Memphis officers found guilty of lesser charges in beating death of Tyre Nichols

A federal jury in Tennessee on Thursday convicted three former Memphis police officers of witness tampering stemming from the beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, but cleared them of the m...

Ukraine's says it struck Russian radar station with ATACMS missiles

The Ukrainian military said on Thursday it had used ATACMS ballistic missiles to strike a Russian radar station to reduce Moscow's ability "to detect, track and intercept aerodynamic and ballistic ...

Ukraine's top commander orders eastern defenses bolstered after Vuhledar falls

Ukraine's armed forces commander General Oleksandr Syrskyi said on Thursday he had ordered defences to be strengthened in the eastern Donetsk region, a day after Kyiv forces announced they had with...

AUKUS navies remote-control ships from 10,000 miles away in experiment

The navies of Britain, Australia and the U.S. were able to control unmanned ships in Australia while sitting more than 10,000 miles away in Portugal as part of a series of military experiments, Bri...

UK says its fighter jets helped deter further escalation in Middle East

Britain said two of its fighter jets and an air-to-air refueling tanker played a part on Tuesday in attempts to prevent further escalation in the conflict in the Middle East, but that the jets did ...

US says it backs Israel's operations in Lebanon

The Biden administration believes it is appropriate for Israel to keep up ground and air attacks on Hezbollah for now, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Thursday — even as he a...

Wagner says Russian captives died in Mali, Tuareg rebels say they are alive

Russia's mercenary Wagner group has told the family of a Russian fighter captured alive in Mali that he has now died, according to text messages seen by Reuters, contradicting information provided ...

American killed in Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, family and US lawmaker say

An American from Dearborn, Michigan, was killed in Lebanon in an Israeli airstrike, according to the man's daughter, friend and the U.S. congresswoman representing his constituency. Tap for the ful...