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North Korea said it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile to “strike fear into the enemies” as South Korea and Japan agreed to work closely on regional security with the US.
North Korea said it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile to “strike fear into the enemies” as South Korea and Japan agreed to work closely on regional security with the US.
Ukrainian mechanics have worked wonders with captured equipment, but long-term use of Russian tanks requires parts from Russian factories.
In April 2001, a US spy plane and a Chinese jet collided over the South China Sea. Author James Bamford details the incident's lasting consequences.
(Bloomberg) -- Yevgeny Prigozhin, the powerful founder of mercenary group Wagner, is preparing to scale back his private army’s operations in Ukraine after Russian military chiefs succeeded in cutting key supplies of men and munitions, people familiar with the matter said.Most Read from BloombergFinally, a Serious Offer to Take Putin Off Russia’s HandsBomb Threat Called In to New York Court Where Trump Hearing HeldAckman Warns of Accelerated Deposit Outflows After Fed DecisionA New Chapter of Ca
(Sputnik/Vladimir Astapkovich/Kremlin via Reuters via third party)Russia has taken Soviet-era tanks from the 1940s and 1950s out of storage for its war in Ukraine in the latest sign that the invasion is floundering, according to researchers from the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT).The weapons, T-54 tanks and either late T-54 or early T-55 tanks, are being sent on a train westward from Russia's Far East, according to photographs the CIT shared Wednesday. The trains are traveling from the 1295th
Rows of munition debris lie at heart of Ukrainian efforts to build criminal cases against Russian commanders
Russia appears to have pulled 1950s-era tanks out of storage in the latest sign of a serious armour shortage in its army.
The question on everyone's lips as the nation prepares for King Charles's Coronation is: Will Meghan and Harry attend?
Several large, 12-wheeled military vehicles carrying mobile missile launchers rumbled across the southwest Oklahoma prairie on Tuesday as part of a training exercise at the Fort Sill Army Post. U.S. military officials invited journalists from across the country and Europe, including The Associated Press, to watch the soldiers train. The Patriot missile system, which hasn't yet been deployed in Ukraine, is particularly useful for defending population centers and critical infrastructure, said Brig. Gen. Shane Morgan, Fort Sill's commanding general.
The Pentagon will send older variants of the Abrams tank to Ukraine, a US official said, with an expected delivery taking place by this fall.
The Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster, with the aim of getting the 70-ton battle powerhouses to the war zone by the fall, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The original plan was to send Ukraine 31 of the newer M1A2 Abrams, which could have taken a year or two to build and ship. Officials said the M1A1 also will be easier for Ukrainian forces to learn to use and maintain as they fight the invading Russian forces.
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Relations between China and Russia “are at their highest point in history” ,according to the communique from their two presidents in Moscow yesterday. To make the point, the briefing at the end of the two-day state visit of China’s president to Moscow stressed the countries ‘are not in a military political alliance.’ Put bluntly, Russia’s immediate need is help to fight the war in Ukraine, now in stalemate.
A Russian Su-35 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept two US strategic bombers over the Baltic Sea, Russia's defence ministry has said. "Two air targets flying in the direction of the state border of the Russian Federation" were detected by radar on Monday, it said in a statement on the social media platform Telegram. The aircraft were identified as two US Air Force B-52 strategic bombers "flying in the direction of the Russian Federation's state border".
The government of Ukraine has not explicitly said it was behind explosions at a Russian base in Crimea, but has welcomed the result, saying it will help to demiltitarise the region.
ANALYSIS: Russia’s invasion has created the need for old alliances to be strengthened and new alliances to be forged, writes Kim Sengupta
Rear Admiral James Goldrick, who has died aged 64, was a rare combination of practical seaman, notable commander and leader, and internationally recognised scholar.
STORY: "Especially Americans and those who supported the war should think, when in history, did missiles and bombings bring democracy?”Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqi writer and associate professor of Arabic literature at New York University Sinan Antoon thumbs through the headlines from his home in New Jersey.“Most people don't have hope. The situation in Iraq now is really terrible, and the Iraqis who live in Iraq will live with the consequences of the invasion, sadly. The people who decided to go to war... They don't have to live with the consequences of war."For Antoon, what’s left of his home country is hopelessness and anarchy.“All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours…”The invasion was meant to topple a dictator and usher in a thriving democracy.Instead, Iraqis faced years of upheaval and chaos…A devastating insurgency – first by Hussein loyalists, then by al Qaeda – was followed by a sectarian civil war and later, the rise of the Islamic State, which occupied a third of the country and slaughtered thousands."As much as I wanted to see the end of Saddam Hussein and his regime, I wanted that to be by the Iraqi people, not by military occupation. If you go now and ask Iraqis, 'Do we have a democracy in Iraq?' No, we have an oligarchy. We have one of the most corrupt systems in the world. Iraqis have lost $1.3 trillion, 1 million people have died, these are some of the estimates, very conservative estimates put it at 300,000, and that's already a huge number, 1.2 million people are internally displaced. This is not democracy."U.S. credibility also suffered from Bush's decision to invade based on bogus, exaggerated and ultimately erroneous intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.Brown University’s “Costs of War” project puts U.S. military deaths in Iraq and Syria over the past 20 years at 4,599.It estimates total deaths – including Iraqi and Syrian civilians, military, police, opposition fighters, media and others – between 550,000 to 584,000.This only includes those killed as a direct result of war, but not estimated indirect deaths from displacement, disease or starvation.The project also estimates the U.S. price tag to date for the wars in Iraq and Syria comes to $1.79 trillion. If you add projected veterans' care through 2050, it rises to $2.89 trillion.“Although the American media keeps saying about the cost of the war, the cost, yes, the cost of the war and billions of dollars to taxpayers, but the people who planned the war and who supported it, their portfolios tripled. Weapons companies and weapons manufacturers made a lot of money. But definitely, the war was unnecessary, ask the mothers, ask the 4 million orphans in Iraq, ask the 1 million widows, ask the people who are born in Falluja with birth defects every day because of the depleted uranium and the phosphorus that was used there by the U.S. So saying one is against the war doesn't mean that one is for dictatorship. It's not that simple.”In his 2019 work “The Book of Collateral Damage,” Antoon sought to chronicle what has haunted him since 2003, the stories of civilian lives destroyed by war.
STORY: Reuters was able to verify the location from the buildings which matched file imagery of the area as well as verified aftermath video filmed at the same location.Reuters footage showed two nine-story residential buildings damaged. Firefighters and an ambulance were at the site.On the messaging app Telegram, Zelenskiy said Russia was "shelling the city with bestial savagery."The Zaporizhzhia regional military administration said two missiles hit the building, but it did not immediately report casualties.
A senior judge has called for evidence relating to allegations of unlawful activity by British armed forces in Afghanistan from anyone - including the Taliban. Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, who is chairing an independent inquiry, said his team will "do everything in our power to facilitate the receiving and hearing of evidence".
The character of war is fundamentally changing, Gen. Mark Milley said in a recent podcast, and it's "being driven by technology."