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Byline: CHRISTIAN LEUPRECHT Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership at the Royal Military College and Queen's University and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is the author of Polar [...]

Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- As the U.S. continues to search for the wreckage of an alleged Chinese spy balloon, Beijing criticized its shooting down as a dangerous [...]

The move fell short of creating formal diplomatic ties between the countries, but it was the latest sign of warming relations between Israel and some Arab governments. JERUSALEM -- Israelis [...]

Byline: COLIN FREEZE; Staff An Antonov cargo plane that carried COVID-19 test kits to Canada has been grounded at Toronto's Pearson Airport as part of the international response to Russia's [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH, GREG McARTHUR TALLINN, ESTONIA TORONTO -- The European Union and Canada will ban Russian planes from their respective airspaces, as part of a now-daily escalation in pressure [...]

The skies over Eastern Europe became a geopolitical checkerboard, and a Swiss email provider pushed back against Belarus's claims of an emailed bomb threat. MOSCOW -- The airspace over Eastern [...]

A confidential report sent to the Security Council details extensive breaches of the international arms embargo on Libya by eight countries since the beginning of the year. CAIRO -- As [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - South Korea said its fighter jets fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that twice entered its airspace over a group of [...]

Byline: Simon Denyer TOKYO - South Korea said its fighter jets fired hundreds of warning shots at a Russian military aircraft that twice entered its airspace over a group of [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's navy chief warned the United States on Monday that Iranian forces could shoot down more surveillance drones if they violate the [...]

Byline: Erin Cunningham DUBAI -- Iran's Foreign Minister Saturday posted new maps on Twitter he said offered further details on 'the path, location and point of impact' of the U.S. [...]

Byline: Ashley Nunes The European Union has just joined Australia and China in banning Boeing's 737 Max 8 jetliner from their airspace, after Britain, France and Germany individually did so [...]

Byline: Loveday Morris JERUSALEM - Israel said Tuesday it shot down a Syrian warplane that entered airspace above the Golan Heights, sending a firm message about its 'red lines' as [...]

Byline: Kareem Fahim ISTANBUL -- The United Arab Emirates said Monday that two of its civilian airliners were 'intercepted' by a fighter jet from Qatar during routine flights, in a [...]

Byline: John Vandiver ZAGAN TRAINING AREA, Poland - Sitting down for lunch under a tent with a group of American infantrymen at this sprawling Polish base, Gen. Philip Breedlove apologized [...]

ISTANBUL -- Tensions between Russia and Turkey widened on Tuesday over the Russian bombings of Syrian rebels and multiple violations of Turkish airspace, which have deeply undercut Turkey's goals in [...]

For what NATO's secretary general described as a ''long time'' and Russia's Defense Ministry characterized as just ''a few seconds,'' a Russian fighter jet violated Turkey's airspace on Saturday, increasing [...]

Coast Guard says cargo ship sank in hurricane The cargo ship that vanished five days ago near the Bahamas sank in the brutal seas and high winds of Hurricane Joaquin, [...]

MOSCOW -- Ratcheting up the confrontation over the Syria war, Russia said Monday that its ''volunteer'' ground forces would join the fight, and NATO warned the Kremlin after at least [...]

Byline: John Vandiver Turkey on Monday accused Moscow of violating its airspace when a Russian fighter briefly crossed over the Syrian border, prompting Turkey to scramble two F-16s and NATO [...]

Byline: Michael Birnbaum AMARI AIR BASE, Estonia -- On a recent night at this air base where NATO fighter pilots keep a constant vigil against the Kremlin, the alarms that [...]

HONG KONG -- The Chinese government rejected the Pentagon's claim that a People's Liberation Army fighter jet had buzzed dangerously close to an American surveillance plane in international airspace, and [...]

TOKYO -- Matching China's stern language with warnings of his own, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan vowed on Monday to defend his nation's airspace after China declared an air [...]

TOKYO -- A top American diplomat called Thursday for ''cooler heads to prevail'' in an emotional quarrel over disputed islands that has raised tensions in Asia, and he urged the [...]

Iraq prevented a North Korean plane from entering its airspace because it suspected that it was carrying weapons for Syria, prompting praise from the United States on Friday but also [...]

Iraq today sent domestic passenger flights carrying more than 150 people into areas patrolled by American and British warplanes, the first challenge of its kind to the no-flight zones that […]

According to Sabah, ahead of a possible US-led military campaign against Iraq, the Bush administration officially asked Ankara to open Turkish airspace to US planes for airlifting troops and war [...]