Germany sends troops to Australia for first time amid Indo-Pacific tension

Germany will take part in joint drills with 12 other nations. Tap for more details.

Ukraine's Zelenskiy visits Snake Island to mark 500 days of war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Snake Island, a rocky outcrop on the Black Sea, to mark 500 days since Russia's invasion, a video issued by his office Saturday showed. Tap for more ...

Jordanian counterterrorism force kills three fugitives in firefight, officials say

Three men, including the prime suspect in the death of a policeman at the end of last year, were killed in clashes with Jordan's anti-terrorism squad Sunday, a security source told Reuters. Tap for...

Poland moves troops to eastern border amid Wagner fears

Poland began moving over 1,000 troops to the country’s east on Saturday, the defense minister said — amid rising concern in the NATO-member that Wagner Group presence in Belarus could increase tens...

Canada pledges more troops for Latvia in wider NATO reinforcement

Canada pledged Monday to deploy up to 1,200 more troops in Latvia as part of a NATO plan to reinforce its battalions in the Baltic region to combat-ready brigade level. Tap for more details.

Factbox: General Gerasimov appears for first time since Wagner mutiny

Army General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia's armed forces, was shown in public Monday by the defense ministry for the first time since before the failed June 24 mutiny by t...

Ukraine spy chief says threat at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant subsiding

Ukraine's military spy chief said Thursday that the threat of a Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was receding — but that it could easily return as long as the facility remained unde...

Ukraine says it is advancing near eastern city of Bakhmut

Ukraine said Friday its troops advanced by over a kilometer near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day of fighting against Russian forces. Tap for more details.

UN chief again asks for multinational force for Haiti

PHOTO CAPTION: Police patrol the streets after gang members tried to attack a police station, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti April 25, 2023. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol     UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. S...

Iraq opens investigation into kidnapping of Israeli citizen Tsurkov

The Iraqi government has opened an investigation into the kidnapping of Israeli citizen Elizabeth Tsurkov in Baghdad in March, a government spokesperson told Reuters on Friday. Tap for more details.

China's Xi tells military to deepen combat planning, Xinhua reports

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged the military to deepen war planning to increase the chances of victory in actual combat, Xinhua news agency said. Tap for more details.

No one from Wagner has come to barracks offered by Belarus, ministry adviser says

No one from the Russian Wagner mercenary group has yet visited a vacant military camp Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko offered for Wagner's use, an adviser to the Belarus defense minister ...

Factbox: The Baltic states and their strategic significance for NATO

NATO holds a summit on July 11-12 in Lithuania, one of the three Baltic states that lived under Soviet rule for decades and were among the first NATO countries to send weapons to Kyiv after Russia'...

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, Semafor reports

Twitter threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported on Thursday — citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spi...

US Navy says it prevented Iran from seizing tankers in Gulf of Oman

The U.S. Navy said it had intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday — in the latest in a series of attacks on ships in the area since 2019. Tap...