Blinken, in Middle East, pushes ceasefire while Israeli troops advance

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Middle East on Monday hoping to deliver the ceasefire that President Joe Biden proposed last month, in an all-out push by Washington to secure ...

Israeli forces rescue four live hostages from Gaza, military says

Israeli forces rescued four hostages alive from two locations in the central Gaza area of al-Nuseirat on Saturday, the military said, eight months after they were kidnapped by Hamas-led militants i...

Russia appears to make headway in key Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar

Russian forces appear to be making headway towards their longstanding goal of capturing the strategic Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, according to reports on Sunday from both sides of the more than t...

US, Saudi Arabia close to finalizing draft security treaty, WSJ reports

The Biden administration is close to finalizing a treaty with Saudi Arabia that would commit the U.S. to help defend the Gulf nation as part of a deal aimed at encouraging diplomatic ties between R...

US, British citizens among suspects on trial in Congo after thwarted coup

More than 50 defendants, including six with U.S., British, Canadian or Belgian citizenship, appeared in court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday charged with taking part in a failed coup...

Gunmen ambush minister's security team in India's Manipur state, two wounded

Armed men ambushed a convoy carrying the security team of the chief minister of India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur on Monday, wounding two people, but the leader was not with them at th...

Ukraine says it hit Russian Su-57 fighter jet for first time

Ukrainian forces have for the first time hit a latest-generation Russian Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jet at an air base inside Russia, Kyiv's GUR defense intelligence agency said on Sunday, showing satell...

Israeli forces batter central, south Gaza as tanks advance in Rafah

With a renewed ceasefire push in the eight-month-old Gaza war stalled, Israel bombarded central and southern areas again on Friday, killing at least 28 Palestinians, and tank forces advanced to the...

Hunter Biden's criminal gun trial nears end

Lawyers for President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden could begin making their case on Friday that he did not break the law when he said that he was not addicted to drugs while buying a gun in 2018, a...

US appeals court rules some books be restored to Texas library shelves

A federal appeals court panel on Thursday ordered that eight of 17 books that had been removed from a Texas library's shelves over conservatives' complaints that they were inappropriate must be ret...

US and British airstrikes hit Yemen, Houthis say

U.S. and British forces carried out six airstrikes on targets in Yemen on Friday, a Houthi-run television station said. Tap for the full brief.

Polish soldier dies after being stabbed by migrants on border with Belarus

A Polish soldier died on Thursday after he was stabbed on the border with Belarus by migrants trying to cross into the European Union, the army said, while Warsaw said it would demand Belarus hand ...

Germany needs 75,000 more troops as NATO eyes Russia threat, Spiegel reports

Germany's defense ministry believes it will need at least 75,000 additional troops to fulfill its NATO commitments as the alliance adapts to face what it sees as an increasingly hostile Russia, Spi...

No official Hamas response to ceasefire deal despite leader demand for war end, Qatar says

Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said Thursday that Hamas has not yet handed mediators its response to the latest ceasefire proposal and is still studying it, adding that Qatari...

In apparent blow to Biden plan, Hamas leader demands full end to Gaza war

The leader of Hamas said on Wednesday the group would demand a permanent end to the war in Gaza and Israeli withdrawal as part of a ceasefire plan, dealing an apparent blow to a truce proposal tout...