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WASHINGTON — As Gaza buries its dead and starves under siege, the Trump administration has quietly signed off on a 6.7 billion dollar surge of US weapons for Israel, adding new attack
Donald Trump is building a 250-foot Independence Arch on the Potomac, a White House grand ballroom, and more — a vanity construction campaign running alongside sinking approval ratings and a fractured rural base.
Israeli warplanes launched one of the broadest waves of attacks across Lebanon since the April ceasefire, striking 30 populated areas in the country’s south and east while artillery shelling and drone operations
The Kremlin said Thursday that preparations for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to China have entered their final phase, signaling another major step in the rapidly expanding strategic partnership between Moscow
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu on Thursday hailed Russia’s RS-28 Sarmat strategic missile system as a defining achievement for the country’s scientific and industrial base, casting the next-generation nuclear weapon as
Israeli warplanes carried out one of the broadest waves of attacks across Lebanon in recent weeks, striking around 30 populated areas in the country’s south and east as the civilian death toll
Russia sharply escalated its warnings against renewed Western military involvement in Afghanistan on Thursday, with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu declaring that any return of foreign military infrastructure to Afghan territory
Sergei Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, said Thursday that the United States and Israel failed to achieve the rapid military success they expected against Iran, arguing that Tehran has
Iran escalated its confrontation with Washington on Wednesday by declaring that it would no longer allow American weapons shipments to transit the Strait of Hormuz, a move that threatens to deepen one
For decades, the annual summer migration of French families toward the Mediterranean coast, the Alps, Spain, Italy, and Portugal has been treated almost as a national ritual. Highways clog with traffic, airports
For more than six decades, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has remained suspended between official history and public suspicion, a national trauma preserved not only in archival footage and conspiracy
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held high-level talks in New Delhi on Wednesday focused on expanding bilateral cooperation in energy, trade, technology and strategic connectivity,
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