Eastern front flares as Russia probes Ukrainian lines

BERLIN/KYIV (Reuters) -The United States and Germany were poised on Wednesday to announce plans to deliver heavy tanks to Ukraine, sources said, a decisive boost in support hailed in Kyiv as a ...

Canada to send Ukraine four Leopard 2 tanks

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will send four Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday, after Germany this week allowed other countries to re-export the...

Poland to send Ukraine 60 “modernized” tanks on top of Leopards

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland will send an additional 60 tanks to Ukraine on top of the 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks it has already pledged, the Polish prime minister said in an interview with Ca...

Ukraine sets sights on fighter jets after securing tanks

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine will now push for Western fourth generation fighter jets such as the U.S. F-16 after securing supplies of main battle tanks, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister sai...

France to pull troops from Burkina Faso within a month

PARIS (Reuters) -France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso in the next month after the military junta asked it to leave, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in a move that will furt...

Israeli troops kill seven gunmen, two civilians in Jenin clash, Palestinians say

JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli commandos killed seven gunmen and two civilians in a raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, stirring f...

Australia to speed up purchase of sea mines to shore up maritime defense

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Monday it would accelerate plans to buy advanced sea mines to protect its maritime routes and ports from "potential aggressors" amid China's plans to increa...

German arrested for allegedly passing intelligence to Russia

BERLIN (Reuters) -A German citizen was arrested at the Munich airport on suspicion of treason for allegedly colluding with an intelligence service employee to pass on intelligence to Russia, th...

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...