Congo army battles convicted war criminal's militia, civilian deaths reported

Heavy clashes erupted this week between Congo's army and a militia founded by a war criminal convicted at the International Criminal Court but later released, both sides said, and one civil society...

Spain deploys more troops as heat wave worsens 20 wildfires

Scorching heat hampered efforts to contain 20 major wildfires across Spain on Sunday, prompting the government to deploy an additional 500 troops from the military emergency unit to support firefig...

Poland charges Belarusian with planning warehouse sabotage

Polish prosecutors have charged a Belarusian citizen with planning to set fire to a warehouse in eastern Poland on behalf of foreign intelligence, a spokesperson said on Monday. Tap for the full br...

South Korea's Lee orders implementation of agreements with North Korea

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who has been seeking to improve strained relations with Pyongyang, ordered on Monday his cabinet to prepare a partial step-by-step implementation of existing a...

Russian strikes in Ukraine kill 10, including two children, ahead of Trump-Zelenskiy meeting

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of unleashing "cynical" attacks on Ukrainian civilians that he said were designed to undermine his talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington ...

Russian general seriously wounded by Ukrainian strike in Kursk

Ukrainian intelligence said General Esedulla Abachev, deputy commander of Russia's northern forces, had an arm and a leg amputated after being wounded in a Ukrainian strike in Russia’s Kursk region...

Israel in talks to forcibly resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say

The plan, if carried further, would envisage people moving from an enclave besieged by Israel for almost two years to a nation in the heart of Africa riven by years of political and ethnically-driv...

Trial shows fragility of limits on US military's domestic role

A trial in California challenging the legality of President Donald Trump's use of U.S. troops in Los Angeles has highlighted vulnerabilities in American laws and traditions against deploying the mi...

Islamist foreign fighters petition for Syrian citizenship

Foreign fighters and others who joined Syria's civil war from abroad have petitioned the new Islamist-led government for citizenship, arguing they have earned it after sweeping to power with rebels...

China accuses Philippine vessels of “dangerous maneuvers” after its own ships collided

China's defense ministry accused Philippine Coast Guard vessels on Friday of "dangerous maneuvers in response to reports of a collision earlier this week between two Chinese vessels near Scarboroug...

Washington DC attorney general sues to end federal takeover of police department

Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to take control of the district's police department. Tap for the full brief.

US approves potential sales of munitions, bombs and rockets to Nigeria

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South Korea to end some military activity on North Korea border

South Korea will end some military activities along its border with North Korea, President Lee Jae Myung said Friday, in his government's latest effort to improve ties between the neighbors still t...

Mali arrests generals, French national accused in alleged destabilization plot

Mali's military-led government has arrested two generals and a French national, accusing them of participating in an alleged plot to destabilize the West African nation, according to a government s...

Polish president shows off military hardware, sees Russia “floundering” in Ukraine

Russian forces have floundered in Ukraine and history shows Russia's army can be beaten in combat, Poland's president told a military parade on Friday marking the 105th anniversary of a victory ove...