Ukraine gives more details of latest alleged killing of POWs

Ukraine's Airborne Assault Troops said on Thursday that three servicemen who Ukrainian prosecutors have said were captured and shot dead by Russian forces this month were members of the 82nd Airbor...

NATO air forces scrambled over 300 times in 2023 due to Russian military aircraft

NATO air forces were scrambled more than 300 times in response to Russian military aircraft in 2023, the treaty organization said on Friday. Tap for the full brief.

Islamic State group-linked rebel commander killed in Ugandan rainforest, army says

Uganda's army said it killed a commander of a unit of the Islamist rebel Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) blamed for a string of deadly attacks including a massacre at a boarding school. Tap for the ...

China urges regional alert as US steps up deployments

China's defense ministry on Thursday urged the Asia-Pacific to be on high alert as the United States steps up forward military deployment in the region, after reports of a U.S. plan to revive a Pac...

Israeli forces advance into Gaza’s Khan Younis after strikes trigger new mass exodus

Israeli tanks advanced into a town in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday after days of bombardment that forced tens of thousands of already displaced Palestinian families to flee in a new exodus. T...

Turkey to reinforce military bases in Iraq after 12 soldiers killed

Turkey will reinforce its newly established permanent bases in northern Iraq in the coming months, after 12 Turkish soldiers were killed in the region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Ta...

China's military slams US after breakthrough talks

China's defense ministry lashed out at the United States on Thursday, a week after their top military officials resumed high-level talks, criticizing its continued meddling in the Asia Pacific regi...

Nikki Haley, asked about cause of US Civil War, doesn’t mention slavery, faces backlash

Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley declined on Wednesday night to say that slavery was one of the main causes of the U.S. Civil War, an omission that drew swift rebukes from Democrats an...

Anti-war candidate says top Russian court backs barring her from challenging Putin

Russia's Supreme Court has upheld a decision to bar a former TV journalist who opposes the war in Ukraine from taking part in a presidential election in March, Yekaterina Duntsova, the would-be can...

US military's X-37B spaceplane ready for launch to higher orbit, SpaceX says

After weeks of false starts and delays, SpaceX teams prepared again on Thursday to launch the military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane on its seventh mission, the first atop a rocket capable of ...

Analysis: US allies distance themselves from Red Sea task force

U.S. President Joe Biden hoped to present a firm international response to Yemen's Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping by launching a new maritime force, but a week after its launch many allies don'...

Gaza war will go on for months, Israel's military chief says

Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza will likely go on for many months, the country's military chief said on Tuesday. Tap for the full brief.

Iran slams IAEA report on uranium enrichment, Iranian media reports

Iran's atomic energy chief Mohammad Eslami on Wednesday said there was "nothing new" in an international nuclear watchdog report saying that Tehran had reversed a months-long slowdown in its uraniu...

Ukraine probes alleged prisoner of war execution by Russian forces

Ukraine has opened a war crimes investigation into the alleged execution by Russian forces of three Ukrainian prisoners of war, the general prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Tap for the full b...

Sweden inches closer to NATO after vote in Turkish parliamentary commission

The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday in a key step towards enlarging the Western bloc after 19 months of delays in which Ankara deman...