Category: Military

  4/4/2017 10 minutes ago From the sectionMiddle East At least 58 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in north-western Syria, a monitoring group...

BY KATIE BO WILLIAMS – 03/29/17 03:37 PM EDT   The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday sought to distance their investigation of Russia’s interference in the election from the partisan brawl...

By Katie Hunt, CNN Updated 6:53 AM ET, Sat March 18, 2017 Hong Kong (CNN)China urged the United States to take a “cool-headed” approach to escalating tensions with North Korea, calling for a diplomatic...

By Amanda Erickson March 18 at 3:28 PM     Fresh off the heels of a dust-up with Britain, President Trump attacked another key ally — Germany. At a news conference Friday with German...

WORLD NEWS | Sat Mar 18, 2017 | 8:21am EDT   By Yeganeh Torbati and Ben Blanchard | BEIJING   The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take...

By: Sam LaGrone March 13, 2017 11:35 AM One of Japan’s largest warship is set to conduct three months of operations in the South China Sea,according to a Monday report in Reuters. The 24,000-ton JS Izumo (DDH-183)...

World News | Thu Mar 9, 2017 | 2:04pm EST By Tom Perry | BEIRUT U.S.-backed Syrian forces said on Thursday they were closing in on Islamic State-held Raqqa and expected to reach the...

3/5/2017   SEOUL – North Korea on Monday launched four ballistic missiles, three of which fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone in the Sea of Japan, the Japanese government said. There were no immediate...

By JEREMY HERB 02/26/17 06:24 PM EST Updated 02/26/17 07:07 PM EST President Donald Trump’s nominee for Navy secretary, Philip Bilden, withdrew from consideration Sunday, becoming the second Pentagon pick unable to untangle his...

By Jonathan Cheng in Seoul and Chun Han Wong in Beijing Updated Feb. 23, 2017 8:43 a.m. ET     North Korea appeared to lash out at Beijing in a state-media commentary published on...

BY ISHANI ROY @ROYISHANI_ROY ON 02/23/17 AT 7:44 AM     Turkish forces killed 56 Islamic State fighters Wednesday in Syria in the latest successful operation against the militant group. The airstrikes in al-Bab in...

2/23/2017   WASHINGTON —  Iran is increasingly using Syrian battlefields as a proving ground for fresh military officers in training, according to Iranian media reports and Syrian opposition figures. Tehran-based Imam Hossein University, a...

By Elizabeth Shim   |   Feb. 15, 2017 at 9:48 AM   Feb. 15 (UPI) — The assassination of Kim Jong Un‘s older half-brother at an airport in Malaysia has placed China on alert, and...

2/14/2017   The US Navy spotted a Russian spy ship about 70 miles off the coast of Delaware on Tuesday that was headed north, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. Fox News reported the...

By ISABEL KERSHNER FEB. 13, 2017 JERUSALEM — A militant hard-liner who served more than 20 years in Israeli prisons has been chosen as the new leader of Hamas in Gaza, an official for the...

By Steve Almasy, CNN Updated 7:24 PM ET, Sun February 12, 2017 (CNN)North Korea confirms it has “successfully” completed the launch of a new medium-range ballistic missile, the Pukguksong-2. According to North Korea’s Korean...

By Steve Almasy, CNN Updated 8:37 PM ET, Sat February 11, 2017 (CNN)North Korea on Sunday test-fired a ballistic missile, an official in the South Korean Ministry of Defense told CNN. It is the...