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Israel has achieved all that it can militarily in Gaza, according to senior American officials, who say continued bombings are only increasing risks to civilians while the possibility of further [...]

The scenes were decidedly Russian. A Gazprom facility. Flags with the country's signature three horizontal stripes of white, blue and red. A Pyatyorochka supermarket. The soldiers posting the videos, verified [...]

The strike was retaliation for a drone attack launched from Yemen a day earlier, which evaded Israel's defenses and hit a building in Tel Aviv, killing one person. Israeli fighter […]

Weapons donations from the United States and European countries will take weeks, if not months, to reach the front lines. Despite billions of dollars in additional weapons and security assistance [...]

More than 1,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine were killed or wounded on average each day in May, according to NATO and Western military officials. May was a particularly deadly month [...]

The rescue of four Israelis in Gaza in a ferocious assault over the weekend offered a glimpse into an ambitious intelligence operation aimed at bringing home those held by Hamas. [...]

The official, Christine Abizaid, recently warned that the Hamas attacks in Israel, and the Gaza conflict, had energized terrorist threats worldwide. The director of the National Counterterrorism Center will step [...]

The Israeli airstrike this week in Damascus that killed seven Iranian commanders was an unusually harsh blow, and officials say Iran is determined to respond, raising fears of a war. [...]

A top Pentagon official said the United States was ''seeking clarification'' after the ruling junta decided to revoke a military cooperation deal. A senior Pentagon official on Thursday sought to [...]

The Iran-backed group, which has been targeting global shipping routes, has proved especially difficult for the United States and its allies to restrain. The United States and Britain carried out [...]

The strikes against eight sites come as the Iran-backed militant group remains defiant and the region teeters on the edge of a wider war. The United States and Britain carried [...]

As the war approaches its second anniversary, the Russians are beginning to deploy North Korean arms, worsening Ukraine's troubles while it still awaits new air defenses from the United States. [...]

Ukraine's army has for now set aside U.S. fighting methods and reverted to tactics it knows best. The first several weeks of Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive have not been kind to [...]

After holding back many of its units trained and armed by the West, Ukraine is now committing them, the officials said, but it remained unclear whether a full-scale assault was [...]

The assaults, with Western tanks and armored vehicles, appear to mark a long-awaited counteroffensive that Ukraine hopes will retake territory and shore up allies' resolve to keep supplying weapons. Ukrainian [...]

For months, U.S. officials said cross-border operations risked a dangerous escalation. But those fears have ebbed. During the first year of Russia's war in Ukraine, the Biden administration fretted constantly [...]

American spy agencies do not know exactly who carried out the attack this month, but suggest it was part of a series of covert operations orchestrated by Ukraine's security services. [...]

The Biden administration has been under bipartisan pressure to explain how it intended to continue sending weapons to Ukraine quickly without asking Congress for more money. The Pentagon has significantly [...]

Without a decisive victory, Western support for Ukraine could weaken, and Kyiv could come under increasing pressure to enter serious peace talks to end or freeze the conflict. WASHINGTON -- [...]

With hopes fading that two warring generals will end their battle anytime soon, diplomats and other foreigners began heading for Sudan's doors. NAIROBI, Kenya -- It began with a helicopter [...]

Officials said the move was meant as a deterrent against Iran and to maintain the stability of one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The United States Navy said on [...]

The information, exposed on social media sites, also shows that U.S. intelligence services are eavesdropping on important allies. WASHINGTON -- A trove of leaked Pentagon documents reveals how deeply Russia's [...]

The administration says it is seeking to avoid a wider war with Iran and its proxies while protecting U.S. personnel from attacks. WASHINGTON -- A few days after an American [...]

At the end of a 10-week crash course at a U.S. Army base in Oklahoma, the Ukrainians are essentially running their own training in preparation for the front lines. FORT [...]

BALEDOGLE, Somalia -- The promise and perils of America's counterterrorism campaign were on full display at a remote training base in central Somalia. It was graduation day for 346 recruits [...]

American officials are worried China is far along in developing military technology that operates in the unregulated high-altitude zone of ''near space.'' WASHINGTON -- During the Cold War, American strategists [...]

Moscow is sending poorly trained recruits, including convicts, to the front lines in eastern Ukraine to pave the way for more seasoned fighters, U.S. and allied officials say. WASHINGTON -- [...]

The resource-laden nation of nearly 300 million is a big prize in the strategic battle between the United States and China for influence in Asia. When the U.S. defense secretary, [...]

If the usual script plays out, the Biden administration's reluctance to provide the planes could be temporary, officials say. WASHINGTON -- For Ukraine, the United States and its NATO allies, [...]

The United States will have to step up its training program to ensure the Ukrainian military can use all the Western-provided equipment effectively. WASHINGTON -- For all the fanfare about [...]

The decision unlocked a flow of heavy arms from Europe and inched the United States and its NATO allies closer to direct conflict with Russia. WASHINGTON -- President Biden's announcement [...]

The West African country had demanded that French troops leave. France confirmed they would be out in a month. French troops in Burkina Faso will leave the West African country [...]

The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. WASHINGTON -- For years, the United States [...]

The conversations alarmed the Biden administration because they showed how frustrated Moscow had become over its battlefield setbacks in Ukraine. WASHINGTON -- Senior Russian military leaders recently had conversations to [...]

Biden administration officials vowed to continue sending military, economic and humanitarian aid to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia. WASHINGTON -- American and other Western officials assailed President Vladimir V. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The United States is sending a new influx of arms and equipment that Ukraine will need for its counteroffensive against Russian troops in the country's south, the Pentagon [...]

A new intelligence assessment of the Al Qaeda threat was prepared after a drone strike killed Ayman al-Zawahri, the group's leader. But some outside counterterrorism specialists said it was overly [...]

Pulling Ukrainians out of battle to train them could accelerate Russia's gains, officials say. The Pentagon is also monitoring the levels of its own stockpiles. WASHINGTON -- The Ukrainians say [...]

A secretive operation involving U.S. Special Operations forces hints at the scale of the effort to assist Ukraine's still outgunned military. WASHINGTON -- As Russian troops press ahead with a [...]

As Russia makes slow but steady progress, the arrival of new weapons systems will help Ukraine hang onto territory, U.S. officials and analysts say. WASHINGTON -- When Russia shifted its [...]

Soviet-designed ammunition is part of the 'life blood' for Ukrainian troops fighting Russia, and the United States is keeping it flowing. IN POLAND, NEAR THE UKRAINIAN BORDER -- Just off [...]

More than 7,000 Russian troops have been killed in less than three weeks of fighting, according to conservative U.S. estimates. WASHINGTON -- In 36 days of fighting on Iwo Jima [...]

Neither Poland nor the United States wants to make itself -- or NATO -- a target of Russia. And providing MIG fighters might cross over Putin's invisible line. President Biden's [...]

President Vladimir Putin could still reduce cities in Ukraine to rubble, officials say. But European countries say they are not as intimidated by Russian ground forces as they were in [...]

The United States has walked to the edge of direct conflict with Russia in an operation that is reminiscent of the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, but far more complex. On [...]

The American weapons are part of a $350 million package that President Biden authorized on Saturday. NEAR UKRAINE'S BORDER -- Some 14 wide-bodied aircraft transported a bristling array of Javelin [...]

Ukrainian troops have mounted a stiffer-than-expected opposition to a superior force in the early days of the war. But U.S. officials say it may not last. WASHINGTON -- Ukraine's soldiers [...]

Surprised by the speed at which sanctions have been poured on Russia, Biden's top aides suspect that Putin's reaction will be to double down and lash out -- and perhaps [...]

Videos and photos show the bodies of soldiers left behind on the battlefield, officials say, and the charred remains of tanks and armored vehicles. WASHINGTON -- When Russia seized Crimea [...]

Ukraine's leader said his forces had ''repelled'' the Russian army's assault. Moscow claimed it had merely ''paused'' for the possibility of peace negotiations. KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian military, outmanned [...]