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Holland’s government says it is “ready to contribute” to an international naval mission that would keep the Strait of Hormuz open to commercial shippi...
Lead The United States and Iran have unveiled a landmark memorandum of understanding that promises an immediate cease-fire, the reopening of the Str...
Aerospace startup JetZero is accelerating its blended wing body (BWB) revolution after closing a fresh $175 million funding round and landing high-pro...
BEIRUT – A perfect storm of renewed conflict, shrinking reserves and stalled reforms is pushing Lebanon deeper into humanitarian and economic emergenc...
Russia faces mounting military and economic pressure this week as Western intelligence warns of a possible Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic-missi...
INTRODUCTION For the first time since Moscow revived the imperial-era term in 2014, “Novorossiya” has moved from rhetoric to a concrete line item in...
Pyongyang—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s first trip to North Korea in seven years has thrust the reclusive state back into the geopolitical spotlight,...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that recent American strikes have reduced Iran’s operational missile arsenal to “about twenty-o...
Washington–Tel Aviv rift deepens as Mossad’s regime-change gambit stalls in Iran. American and Israeli war planners entered the February offensive ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica—Friday evening turned chaotic across the island as Jamaicans grappled with an unprecedented all-island power outage and a separate b...
Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is back in headlines after warning European leaders that “Iran’s war on the West won’t stay in the S...
WASHINGTON — In a dramatic 215-208 vote today, the U.S. House of Representatives invoked the War Powers Resolution to order President Donald Trump to ...
Updated May 31, 2026 — Washington Former Vice President Mike Pence is back in the national spotlight after a string of high-profile interviews and ...
Tehran—A fragile breakthrough is taking shape in the long-running U.S.–Iran standoff, as negotiators edge toward a memorandum that could reopen the St...
Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is commanding fresh attention online after publishing back-to-back analyses that cut to the heart of two of 2...
A HARDLINER AT THE HELM OF THE IRGC Iran’s Supreme Leader elevated Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi to Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled a hardening U.S. stance toward Havana on Wednesday, warning that “time is running out for the Cuban regime to ...
The White House abruptly reversed course on its Europe posture early Friday, with President Donald Trump announcing a deployment of 5,000 additional U...
Hundreds of families, dignitaries, and military leaders will converge on New London, Connecticut, this Friday as the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin touched down in Beijing early Tuesday for a two-day state visit that reinforces the “no-limits” partnership he and Ch...
【正文／中文】 北京——5月14日上午，美国总统特朗普与中国国家主席习近平在人民大会堂举行会谈。这是特朗普重返白宫后首次访华，也是两国元首自2025年釜山会晤以来再次面对面交流。峰会聚焦贸易、台海和平及人工智能监管三大议题，双方均释放务实合作信号。 • 贸易与投资 双方同意重启中美全面经济对...
A Russian cargo vessel, the Ursa Major, has sunk under mysterious circumstances in the western Mediterranean, triggering an international scramble to ...
Donald Trump warned Monday that the fragile ceasefire in the eleven-week Iran war is now “on massive life support,” moments after he rejected Tehran’s...
Washington, D.C. — Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday night blasted Tehran’s latest counter-proposal to end the 73-day Iran-Israel war, call...
Updated Friday, 8 May 2026—10:30 UTC A tense standoff in the Gulf intensified overnight after U.S. naval aircraft struck two Iranian-flagged oil tanker...
Qeshm Island—the sprawling, dolphin-shaped landmass that guards the Strait of Hormuz—is suddenly on every traveler’s radar, and for good reason. Iran’...
Joint Base Andrews, MD—An internal Air Force investigation is under way after armed members of the 316th Security Forces Squadron mistakenly entered t...
The Strait of Hormuz crisis intensified overnight as former U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled “Project Freedom,” a U.S.-led effort to “guide” nearl...
U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers are back in the headlines after a dramatic 36-hour nonstop strike from Whiteman Air Force Base to Iran and b...
Washington, D.C. – The showdown between the United States and Iran is hurtling toward a decisive moment as a 60-day War Powers deadline expires today,...
(Tehran/Muscat, 27 April 2026) Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Moscow on Monday as diplomatic efforts intensified to end the six-we...
As dawn broke over northern Ukraine on April 26, 2026, sirens once again pierced the still air around the defunct Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Exact...
The U.S. Army’s long-anticipated shift from the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) to a mission-focused Combat Field Test (CFT) is now official, launchin...
Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz escalated overnight after U.S. Navy forces intercepted and seized an Iran-flagged cargo vessel that American official...
Lead paragraph Tensions in the Gulf spiked overnight after former U.S. President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Spruance intercept...
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, is on the cusp of smashing a post-Vietnam record for the longest conti...
A pair of US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers has transited the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since hostilities with Iran erup...
China’s push to dominate the exascale era has been rocked by a massive cybersecurity incident: a hacker—or hacking collective calling itself “FlamingC...
Actress and producer Sydney Sweeney is everywhere this spring—on screen, on social media and in the boardroom—and fans are taking notice. Fresh off a...
Silicon Valley–based defense technology company Anduril Industries has rocketed to the center of the U.S. national-security conversation after winning...
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham launched his 2026 re-election bid Monday, filing the official paperwork in Columbia and immediately tying his campa...
AeroVironment (NASDAQ: AVAV) shares are back in the spotlight after the unmanned-aircraft specialist delivered a mixed fiscal third-quarter report tha...