Putin to hold talks with Azerbaijan's Aliyev as Russian troops leave Karabakh

President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on April 22, the Kremlin said on Friday. Tap for the full brief.

Kosovo says 10 of its police officers detained in Serbia

Kosovo said 10 off-duty police officers were detained on Wednesday in Serbia for questioning, including a deputy police commander, while passenger buses using Serbian territory as transit were halt...

Russian, Tajik troops stage counter-terror drills

Troops from Russia and Tajikistan on Thursday completed several days of joint exercises in the Central Asian country to rehearse scenarios for cross-border incursions by militants or illegal armed ...

Ukraine downs Russian strategic bomber after airstrike kills eight, Kyiv says

Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber 300 km (185 miles) from its border on Friday after the warplane took part in an airstrike that killed at least eight people, including two children, in ...

Russia tightens officials' travel rules due to fears over secrets, sources say

Russia is making overseas travel harder for some officials due to fears that foreign powers may try to gain access to state secrets during the worst crisis in relations with the West for more than ...

Polish president meets privately with Trump in New York

Polish President Andrzej Duda said he met privately with former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during his visit to New York on Wednesday. Tap for the full brief.

Russia may be ready to attack NATO in 5-8 years, German official says

Russia could be ready militarily to attack NATO countries in five to eight years' time if it chose to do so, Germany's top military official said, once it has rebuilt its forces hit by the impact o...

In a rebel-held Myanmar town, fragile unity between factions pushes junta to the brink

Myawaddy, a critical trading post in Myanmar that rebel forces seized from the ruling junta last week, offers a glimpse of dynamics playing out across the Southeast Asian country as its vaunted mil...

Philippines, New Zealand eye forces deal, share concern over South China Sea

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon agreed on Thursday to deepen defense cooperation and expressed serious concern over the South China Sea, ...

Germany arrests two for alleged military sabotage plot for Russia

Two German-Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting sabotage attacks, including on U.S. military facilities, in a serious effort to undermine military support for Uk...

Israeli tanks push back into northern Gaza, warplanes hit Rafah, say residents

Israeli tanks pushed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on Rafah, the Palestinians' last refuge in the south ...

Philippines, US forces to train retaking island in joint drills

Philippine and U.S. forces will simulate retaking enemy-occupied islands during joint military drills starting next week in areas facing Taiwan and the South China Sea as Manila shifts its focus to...

Missiles, drones and warships the priority as Australia plans $32B defense boost

Australia will boost defense spending by A$50.3 billion ($32 billion) over the next decade and reshuffle its weapons programs to emphasize missiles, drones and warships as it looks to the possibili...

France prepares to commemorate D-Day's 80th anniversary

Eighty years on, Normandy's beaches and fields still bear the scars of violence that erupted during World War II on D-Day, history's largest amphibious invasion on June 6, 1944, drone footage shows...

Former US Army staffer pleads guilty to defrauding Gold Star families

A former U.S. Army financial counselor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding grieving military families out of life insurance payments, in a scheme whose alleged victims included widows and a 13-...