With the Taliban making territorial gains across Afghanistan, America’s top general in Afghanistan resigned his post Monday, marking a key milestone in the incremental wind-down of the longest war in US history. For nearly three years, Army Gen. ...
With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan more than 90% complete and on track for the Sept. 11 deadline, both Russia and Iran are positioning themselves as regional power brokers, looking to fill the void left in the wake of America’s ...
YAVORIV, Ukraine — At this former Soviet military base located some 750 miles to the west of Ukraine’s eastern war zone, the sounds of tank shots, machine guns, and small arms fire snarl throughout the course of this sweltering ...
You can’t save them all. Coast Guard rescue swimmer Ryan Pierce learned that lesson the day the call came to evacuate a man who’d suffered a heart attack aboard a cruise ship off Florida’s Atlantic coast. Pierce and the other ...
How do you say "Leave no beer behind" in German? German defense officials recently announced a plan to airlift some 22,500 liters (about 6,000 gallons) of beer and other alcoholic beverages from Afghanistan in advance of NATO's withdrawal this ...
Don’t worry Europe, Team America is here to help. Soldiers with the Italy-based 173rd Airborne Brigade were simulating an airfield seizure at the decommissioned Cheshnegirovo Air Base in Bulgaria on May 11 when they accidentally stormed a civilian ...
KYIV, Ukraine — While NATO conducts one of its largest military exercises in Europe in decades, Russia has signaled its displeasure by announcing plans to mass troops on its frontier with the Western military alliance. During a Monday board ...
KYIV, Ukraine — The skies over the eastern Mediterranean Sea were crowded on Wednesday with dueling US and Russian strategic bomber training exercises, underscoring how the region is fast becoming an upstart arena of competing military interests ...
KYIV, Ukraine — In a brazen move widely condemned by Western leaders, Belarus forced a civilian airliner to land on its territory on Sunday to arrest an opposition journalist. Following a bogus bomb threat, a Belarusian fighter jet forced Ryanair ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Leaders in Ukraine's armed forces plan to create a corps of “cybertroops” to resist Russian cyberwarfare. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, told a Ukrainian media outlet that ...
Multiple airlines have canceled flights into Israel's largest international airport amid the threat of rocket attacks by the militant group Hamas. The escalating violence prompted Israeli air traffic officials on Thursday to shut down incoming ...
An unprecedented cyberattack by Eastern European hackers shut down a critical gas pipeline to the US East Coast over the weekend. It is, to date, the worst cyberattack to ever strike America’s infrastructure. Over the ensuing days gasoline prices ...
KYIV, Ukraine — On Monday the US Coast Guard cutter Hamilton arrived at the Ukrainian port of Odessa following interoperability exercises with the Ukrainian navy in the Black Sea. The Hamilton’s port visit signals the latest development as the US ...
KYIV, Ukraine — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with top Ukrainian officials and civil society leaders during a visit here in the capital city of Ukraine on Thursday. Meanwhile, about 400 miles to the east in Ukraine’s embattled Donbas ...
AVDIIVKA, Ukraine — When you hear the sound you remember it and there’s no mistaking it for anything else. The thunder rolls in from the trenches — from where you are, about a mile away across a field and behind a tree line. The intrusive sound ...
An out-of-control Chinese rocket is expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere on Saturday. And no one knows where it will land. The Pentagon announced in a statement that it's keeping an eye on a Chinese Long March 5B rocket, which launched a ...
With India in the throes of the world’s worst COVID-19 outbreak, US Air Force transport aircraft are delivering loads of vital aid. Over the past week, one C-17 Globemaster III and three C-5M Super Galaxy aircraft have embarked for India with ...
Standing in the garden of her home on the outskirts of this front-line Ukrainian town, Nastya Troitskaya points over the wall in the direction of the trenches and says: “When the shelling gets really loud, the children always cry. ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Monday marks 35 years since an explosion at reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sent a plume of radioactive material into the atmosphere, fatally contaminating the nearby areas and sending radioactive fallout across ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia's defense chief announced Thursday that the Kremlin was pulling troops back from its southern borders with Ukraine. The announcement of the drawdown potentially marks a de-escalatory turning point in a crisis that began weeks ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing challenges on two fronts this week. Protests are planned in 160 cities across Russia Wednesday in support of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Meanwhile, following an ...
Trench warfare is a true test of a soldier’s grit. The thing is, there’s no escaping the danger. You could die just as easily while walking to the toilet as you could while holding the line under artillery fire. You never know when the shelling will ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Should Russia invade, a national network of Ukrainian irregular military units is prepared to wage a protracted, guerrilla resistance campaign. Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Forces comprise about 100,000 reservists and civilian ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Several open-source intelligence groups have identified what they allege to be new Russian military field camps — comprising artillery, rocket systems, a field hospital, and hundreds of vehicles — within a day’s drive of the Ukrainian ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Four Ukrainian soldiers have died in combat against Russian-backed forces in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region during the past two days. The deaths come amid heightened military tensions between Kyiv and Moscow following a recent uptick ...
KYIV, Ukraine — On the Soviet Union’s battlefield maps, red icons symbolized friendly forces and blue symbols denoted the NATO enemy. After Russia seized Crimea and invaded eastern Ukraine in 2014, Ukrainian forces flipped the colors of their ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia has deployed troops and armor near Ukraine’s eastern border and in Crimea, sparking fears of a wider war after years of stalemated trench combat in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Amid the mounting crisis, US President Joe ...
Defending the US homeland from the threat of ballistic missiles is among the American military’s top priorities in the great power competition era. Both China and Russia wield arsenals of intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking ...
Sunday marked the fifth day of heavy fighting between militants affiliated with the Islamic State group, or ISIS, and government forces in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado, underscoring a rapidly worsening security situation less than ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin is always accompanied by a military aide carrying a briefcase that contains the required communications equipment and authorization codes to launch Russia’s nuclear weapons arsenal within ...
