2024

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken held talks in Riyadh as part of U.S. efforts to calm the Middle East. Israel carried out more strikes in Lebanon, hitting the ancient city of Tyre.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III called the situation “very serious,” though he said that what the soldiers were doing in Russia was “left to be seen.”

North Korea’s supply of munitions has already been critical to the Russian war effort. Now, there are growing fears that it is sending troops as well.

Her husband is accused of inviting strangers to sexually assault her while she was drugged and unconscious. The trial has transformed the way France discusses sexual violence.

After a year of war, at least one million people are facing months in the cold. Some said tents, blankets and warm clothes now qualified as luxuries.

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.