US Air Force denies early retirement for group of trans service members

The U.S. Air Force is denying early retirement to all transgender service members with between 15 and 18 years of military service, opting instead to force them out with no retirement benefits. Tap...

India pauses plans to buy US arms after US tariffs

New Delhi has put on hold its plans to procure new U.S. weapons and aircraft, according to three Indian officials familiar with the matter, in India's first concrete sign of discontent after tariff...

Simulated Chinese blockade of Taiwan reveals Singapore as lifeline

The exercise presented a fraught scenario: China's military had blockaded Taiwan by air and sea, and Southeast Asian countries were grappling with how to evacuate as many as 1 million of their nati...

Ghana's finance minister made acting defense minister after fatal crash

Ghana's President John Dramani Mahama has asked Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson to also act as defense minister after a military helicopter crash in which the defense minister was among those k...

Nearly 12,000 children under five in Gaza have acute malnutrition, says WHO

Around 12,000 children aged under five in Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition, and hunger-related deaths are rising, the Director General of the World Health Organization said on Thursday. T...

Israel's Netanyahu to convene security meeting on seizing more of Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet with a small group of senior ministers on Thursday to discuss plans for the military to take control of more territory in Gaza, despite mou...

US Army sergeant charged in shooting five soldiers with handgun at Fort Stewart

A U.S. Army sergeant shot and wounded five soldiers with a personal handgun on Wednesday at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, before he was subdued by other soldiers and arr...

US Army soldier accused of trying to share tank information with Russia

A U.S. Army soldier was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly seeking to pass sensitive information about American battle tanks to the Russian government, according to the U.S. Justice Department. Ta...

M23 rebels killed 319 civilians in east Congo in July, UN rights chief says

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 319 civilians, including 48 women and 19 children, last month in eastern Congo, Volker Turk, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said on Wednesday, cit...

Ghana defense minister among eight killed in helicopter crash

Ghana's Defense Minister Edward Omane Boamah died in a military helicopter crash on Wednesday along with four other officials and three airforce crew, the government said. Tap for the full brief.

Hezbollah says Lebanon cabinet decision to seek state monopoly on arms is “grave sin”

Hezbollah said on Wednesday the Lebanese government was committing a "grave sin" by tasking the army with establishing a state monopoly on arms, sharpening a national divide over calls for the Shi'...

South Korea, US to conduct major joint military drills starting August 18

South Korea and the United States will conduct major joint military drills starting on August 18, officials said, although they will delay parts of the annual exercises that have been a source of t...

Senator Cornyn says FBI will help track down Texas Democrats who fled over redistricting vote

The FBI will help Texas track down Democratic state lawmakers who left the state as part of a collective effort to thwart state Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts, Republican U.S....

Five soldiers shot at Fort Stewart, shooter in custody

The wounded soldiers were treated on site and transported to Winn Army Community Hospital for further treatment, Fort Stewart said in a Facebook post. Tap for the full brief.

Amid starvation, dehydration hits Gaza due to broken pipelines and polluted aquifers

Weakened by hunger, many Gazans trek across a ruined landscape each day to haul all their drinking and washing water - a painful load that is still far below the levels needed to keep people health...