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Russia is doubling down on its military role in Africa despite the growing demands of its war in Ukraine, with the latest example featuring a direct intervention in recent days by Russian military forces to help Niger's military junta suppress a ...

The troubled USS Abraham Lincoln's 5,000 sailors and Marines end more than 250 days at sea Wednesday at Thailand's Pattaya, a notoriously raunchy town of beaches, pulsating bars, tourists and thousands of sex workers.

Recent reports that key Pentagon officials have voiced strong disagreement with how Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is conducting the war with Iran have sparked intense reaction from members of Congress and former military personnel.

Leaders of Russia, China, India and Iran will meet this week in Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, as the non-Western partners look to strengthen ties amid growing world tension.

Greece signed a $3.5 billion deal Monday with Israel to develop a multilayered air defense array for Athens to counter threats ranging from ballistic missiles to drones.

Benchmark oil prices rose to $90 per barrel on Monday after the first flare-up in fighting between the U.S. and Iran in over a month.

It has been touted by the manufacturer as the ballistic missile of the future: lethal, long-range and pinpoint. Lockheed Martin's Precision Strike Missile has the U.S. military investing billions to update its arsenal.

Iran launched retaliatory strikes Monday in the Middle East after the U.S. military attacked an Iran-held island in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, marking the countries' first kinetic exchange since July.

A little after 3 p.m. Sunday, the solitary wail of an air-raid siren rose above Kyiv's busy Chokolivskyi Boulevard. Within seconds, others joined it, echoing through Solomianskyi, a sprawling residential and transport district southwest of the city ...

U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in the first military action in a month on Sunday, according to a U.S. official, breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months.