by | Mar 11, 2025 | Security
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Senior officials from Ukraine and the United States opened talks Tuesday focused on ending Moscow’s three-year war against Kyiv, hours after Russia shot down over 300 Ukrainian drones. It was Ukraine’s biggest attack since the Kremlin ordered...
by | Mar 11, 2025 | Security
LONDON — British police arrested a man on suspicion of manslaughter as they searched for answers about why a cargo ship hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England, setting both vessels ablaze. One sailor was presumed dead. Humberside...
by | Mar 11, 2025 | Security
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The German military continued its rearmament but still suffered from serious personnel shortages last year, a report presented to the country’s parliament on Tuesday showed. The paper also detailed the European power’s more assertive foreign...
by | Mar 11, 2025 | Security
The U.S. is resuming security and intelligence aid to Ukraine after talks between the two countries in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, ending a weeklong standoff that threatened to strengthen Russia’s battlefield position. In a joint statement published soon after the talks...
by | Mar 10, 2025 | Security
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal. South Korea’s...
by | Mar 10, 2025 | Security
A cargo ship hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off eastern England on Monday, setting both vessels ablaze and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea. All 37 crew members aboard the vessels were safe and accounted for, with one hospitalized, local...
by | Mar 10, 2025 | Security
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Germany’s economy should embrace the pivot from cars to defense equipment as a major growth driver, according to a proposal by the country’s leading defense industry group. The Federal Association of the German Security and Defense Industry...
by | Mar 10, 2025 | Security
LONDON — Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers reported, as Moscow claimed fresh gains in its push to recapture parts of the border province that...
by | Mar 10, 2025 | Security
MILAN — Canada has awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to domestic shipbuilding manufacturers in an effort to boost the country’s naval capabilities with new polar icebreakers and warships. The federal government announced plans last week to construct two new Arctic...
by | Mar 10, 2025 | Security
PARIS — United States arms exports to Europe have more than tripled on aid for Ukraine and as European countries boosted weapons buying in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to an analysis by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute....