War & Conflict

After Russia rejected a request for an extension, the agreement allowing Ukraine to ship grain to international markets securely over the Black Sea terminated at midnight in Istanbul (2100 GMT). The agreement, negotiated by the UN...

Chinese defense authorities announced Sunday that Chinese naval boats left this weekend to take part in joint exercises with the Russian military. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, which China did not denounce, relations between...

The “single best” strategy to help the world economy, according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, along with supporting developing markets and addressing debt distress, is to increase support for the war-torn Ukraine. On the eve...

Following weeks of ambiguity regarding the group’s future following its aborted uprising in Russia, Belarus said on Friday that instructors from the Russian mercenary organization Wagner were instructing its forces. A pact that called for some...

In a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Saturday, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced that his nation will send a larger shipment of military equipment and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Yoon made...

Syria’s UN ambassador announced on Thursday that the government will permit humanitarian aid to pass through its main border crossing into rebel-held territories, reopening a channel that had been shut following a Security Council impasse. According...

Despite concerns over a large Nile river project, Egypt has summoned the neighbors of the war-torn Sudan to a summit on Thursday to “stop the bloodshed,” according to the presidency. Ethiopia’s PM Abiy Ahmed is also...

On Thursday, Nikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, called for international cooperation to end Azerbaijan’s “illegal blockade” of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory, which is home to many Armenians. new peace negotiations between Baku and the EU....

The South Korean military announced Wednesday that North Korea has launched a long-range ballistic missile, days after Pyongyang threatened to shoot down US spy planes that had violated its airspace. The North Korean leader, Kim Jong...

According to Taiwan’s defense ministry on Wednesday, China conducted military drills for a second day, deploying naval ships and a sizable number of aircraft, including fighter jets and bombers, toward the island. Taiwan had discovered 30...