October 22, 2024

The move, confirmed by a Pentagon official, signifies a change in U.S. policy aimed at shoring up Ukraine’s ability to fight the war against Russia with its own weapons.

The Russian leader wants cast himself as a global statesman even as the U.S. and its Western allies try to isolate him.

The group said it had targeted a military base near the city, hours after Israeli attacks near Beirut. The U.S. secretary of state has meetings in Tel Aviv later on Tuesday.

Four years ago, several soldiers from both sides were killed in a bloody melee. Any thaw between the countries could have global implications.

Israel has decimated Hamas’s military wing, along with much of Gaza. But the group’s small-scale, hit-and-run approach poses a threat in the enclave’s north.

The alliance between Sara Duterte and President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., which brought two notorious dynasties together, has unraveled in spectacular fashion.

The drills were the latest show of force by China, which claims Taiwan as its territory and has protested Western support for the island.

When a huge tract of land on the Somerset coast was deliberately flooded, the project was slammed as “ridiculous” by a local lawmaker. But the results have been transformative.