France, Germany push on with 2040 joint tank project

France and Germany agreed on Friday to move to the next phase of a project to jointly develop a battle tank by 2040, their defense ministers said, as they seek fresh impetus despite reservations an...

Russia ramps up arms production as US boosts Ukraine support

Russia's defense minister on Wednesday ordered a hike in weapons production and said deliveries needed to be faster for the war in Ukraine, a week after U.S. President Joe Biden signed off on tens ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters occupy Columbia University building

Pro-Palestinian activists occupied a building at Columbia University early on Tuesday, escalating a battle with administrators who have begun suspending students for refusing to dismantle tents set...

Trump does not rule out detention camps for mass deportations if elected again

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out building detention camps on U.S. soil for migrants in the country illegally if he wins a second White House term, he told Time magaz...

Russian forces advance in Ukraine's east

Russian forces advanced at points along the front line in Ukraine on Monday, taking a village in the Donetsk region, gaining better positions in the Kharkiv region and repelling a number of Ukraini...

Houthis attack four ships in Indian Ocean, Red Sea

Yemen's Houthis said they targeted the MSC Orion container ship in a drone attack in the Indian Ocean as part of their ongoing campaign against international shipping in solidarity with Palestinian...

Former US NSA employee gets nearly 22 years in prison for attempted espionage

A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) was sentenced on Monday to nearly 22 years in prison for attempting to transmit classified information to someone he thought to be a Rus...

US State Dept reduces arms licensing burden for UK, Australia to boost AUKUS

The U.S. State Department unveiled its proposal to reduce licensing requirements for transferring military equipment and sensitive technology to Australia and Britain as part of the AUKUS defense p...

US implicates five Israeli units in rights violations before Gaza war, but does not restrict assistance

The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington has reached such a conclusion about Israeli forces, the St...

US military's Gaza pier to cost $320M

The U.S. military's cost estimate to build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid has risen to $320 million, a U.S. defense official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Tap for...

Ukraine pulls back from 3 villages in east, Zelenskiy pleads for weapons

Ukraine's top commander said on Sunday Kyiv's outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in sev...

US military says it engaged five unmanned drones over Red Sea

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Kadryov’s 16-year-old son, accused of beating prisoner, named trustee at special forces university

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that he named his teenage son, who was shown beating a prisoner in custody last year, a trustee of the Russian University of Special Forces named after ...

German coup plotters were advanced in planning for post-putsch crackdown, court told

The men accused of plotting a violent coup against the German state were well advanced in their plans to establish a nationwide military structure to crush any opposition to their putsch when the a...

US Air Force awards $13B contract to develop Doomsday plane

The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that it has awarded a $13 billion contract to Sierra Nevada Corp to develop a successor to the E-4B, known as the Doomsday plane due to its ability to survive a nu...