US announces new restrictions on firearm exports

The U.S. is imposing new restrictions on firearms exports and increasing scrutiny on transactions to limit diversions of guns to drug cartels, criminal groups, gangs and others, the Commerce Depart...

Shoigu says Russia and allies should step up military exercises in Asia

Russia and its allies in Asia should expand joint military exercises as they face a direct threat from attempts by the United States to expand its security influence in the region, Russian Defense ...

US military starts pier construction off Gaza

U.S. troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave when it becomes operational in May, the Pentagon said o...

Gaza protests grow at US colleges, thousands demonstrate in Brooklyn

Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover Seders, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilia...

US Supreme Court presses Trump lawyer over immunity from prosecution

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Thursday questioned a lawyer for Donald Trump about the former president's claim of immunity from prosecution for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, posi...

Israel intensifies airstrikes on Gaza's Rafah before ground operation

Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assault despite allies' warnings this could cause mass ca...

Iraq hangs 11 terrorism convicts in latest mass executions, security officials say

Iraq had hanged 11 militants sentenced to death on terrorism charges, local security officials said on Thursday. Tap for the full brief.

Sweden to send troops to Latvia as part of NATO deployment

Sweden will move ahead with plans to send troops to Latvia as part of NATO's deployment in the Baltic countries, which share land borders with Russia and its ally Belarus, Swedish Prime Minister Ul...

US sends Ukraine ATACMS missiles

The United States in recent weeks secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine for use in its battle to fight off Russian invaders, and Ukraine has now used them twice, a U.S. official said on W...

Biden signs Ukraine aid, TikTok ban bills after GOP battle

President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war with Russia — notching a bipartisan victory for the president as he ...

UN rights chief “horrified” by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies there...

US calls on Iraq to safeguard US troops after new attacks

The U.S. military called on Iraq's government on Tuesday to take steps to safeguard American troops in both Iraq and Syria after failed attacks a day earlier by Iran-aligned militia. Tap for the fu...

Germany charges seven suspected ISIS-K members over attack plots

Germany has charged seven foreign nationals for allegedly plotting terrorist attacks on behalf of the Islamic State Province of Khorasan (ISIS-K), the federal prosecutor's office said on Wednesday....

Myanmar rebel group withdraws troops from key town on Thai border

An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling junta from whom rebel fighters wrested the key trading post th...

Russia detains ally of Defense Minister Shoigu for alleged corruption

A Russian court on Wednesday ordered one of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's deputies be kept in custody on suspicion of taking bribes, the highest-profile corruption case since President Vladimir ...