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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for international pressure on the Kremlin and Pyongyang on Friday, claiming that Russia may deploy North Korean forces into combat as early as Sunday. The Ukrainian leader called for “tangible pressure”...

According to officials, the US reversed course and agreed to withdraw its more than 1,000 personnel from Niger, which has been a longstanding host of drones in Africa. According to US sources who spoke to AFP...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday rejected the idea of European or NATO countries sending troops to Ukraine after French President Emmanuel Macron said the idea could not be ruled out. “What was agreed from the beginning among...

Sweden, which is about to become a member of NATO, declared on Tuesday that it does not currently have plans to send ground forces into Ukraine. “It’s not on the cards at all for the moment,”...

In the northern hamlet of Tessalit, where the UN mission will shortly break camp, several dozen Malian soldiers and Russian paramilitary fighters have arrived, security and local officials said AFP on Friday. On condition of anonymity,...

The West replied late Saturday with penalties aimed at crippling Russia’s banking sector, while Moscow ordered its soldiers to advance “from all directions” in Ukraine. Officials in Ukraine said 198 civilians had been killed since Russia...

Australia claimed on Friday that it had evacuated all of its troops from Afghanistan minutes before the Kabul airport bombings after getting “very clear intelligence” of an anticipated assault. Suicide bombers detonated two bombs in a...

It was decided to immediately withdraw CAPF troops from Jammu and Kashmir and return them to their respective places. The Narendra Modi government has decided to withdraw 10,000 troops from Jammu and Kashmir as it is...

Tensions in Indian-administered Kashmir rose Sunday over the weekend deployment of at least 10,000 paramilitary troops to the troubled region despite authorities’ assertions the move was routine. India maintains a deployment of 500,000 soldiers in the...

Zimbabwe police said three people were killed in Harare on Wednesday as soldiers dispersed stone-throwing opposition supporters who accused the ruling party of trying to rig Monday’s presidential election. The deployment of soldiers and their beating...