Vilnius started constriction on a military base that would house over 4,000 German soldiers. The facility will be located just miles from the border shared with Belarus. Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Vaiksnoras described the construction as a “huge...
US intelligence officials speaking with The New York Times said that Israel will not be able to defeat Hamas and continuing to bomb Gaza will kill more civilians. Some national security officials expressed surprise at how much Israel has degraded Hamas over the...
Newly released documents show that Hunter Biden sought to inappropriately benefit the Ukrainian energy company Burisma while his father was vice president. The records were suppressed by the White House. The files, obtained by the New York Times and reported on...
The US and South Korea are preparing to kick off large-scale war games later this month. The summertime joint military drills are viewed by Pyongyang as an annual rehearsal for invading North Korea. The war games, dubbed Ulchi Freedom Shield, are set to begin on...
The Biden administration is pushing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to resign in exchange for him receiving amnesty from US drug changes. Washington recently contested the Venezuelan presidential election, claiming Edmundo González Urrutia won at the polls. ...
The White House is set to approve an offensive arms sale to Saudi Arabia. After taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden curbed some weapon sales to Riyadh. On Friday, Reuters reported that the State Department will lift the ban on offensive weapon sales to...
Three Arab states approached by the US about sending its soldiers to the Gaza Strip in a peacekeeping role were rejected. Two other Muslim countries expressed interest in participating in the mission that would begin after Israel ends its onslaught. The Times of...
Mali has severed its diplomatic ties with Ukraine following an attack by the local Al-Qaeda affiliate on Malian forces. Kiev called the move short-sighted. Late last month, opposition forces, including an al Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam...
President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed on Sunday that F-16s had arrived in Ukraine. A US official said only a limited number of the warplanes are in Ukraine currently, adding the fighters are not flying combat operations. In a statement posted to X, Zelensky...
A recent high-level North Korean defector said Pyongyang would be interested in talks with former-US President Donald Trump if he wins the November election. During his first term, Trump engaged Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in negotiations that nearly secured major...
Netanyahu had been working to sabotage the talks in the weeks leading up to his trip to Washington The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza...
An Israeli airstrike on a fuel depot at the Yemen Port of Hodeida has resulted in tens of millions of dollars in damages to the important facility. Hodeida is a crucial point of entry for food and other goods reaching the Yemeni people. Port official Nasr...
