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Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the disputed Kuril Islands drew a sharp rebuke Thursday from the Japanese government, which has long claimed four of the islands in the archipelago.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first visit to the Kuril Islands, a Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that also is claimed by Japan, which voiced a diplomatic protest over the trip.

Iranian officials on Thursday said the U.S. "miscalculated" in waging war on their country and demanded payment for environmental damage in the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel on Thursday condemned a siege by Israeli settlers of a Palestinian American family's home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, calling it a "horrific act of terror."

Lockheed Martin Space President Robert Lightfoot joins Guy Taylor of The Washington Times' Threat Status at the 2026 Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.

The two most senior members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on what was effectively a decoy plane following an Iranian threat,

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the recently inaugurated government of Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has requested U.S. collaboration in joint military operations in Colombia to combat "narco-terrorism."

China's military is expanding an array of space warfare weapons that pose a major threat to American satellites and the military operations they support, a senior Space Force general said Wednesday.

Rapid technological change is opening major new advantages but also creating long-term planning hurdles for the most sophisticated U.S. military units that are trying to stay ahead of fast-evolving missile and asymmetric threats from such adversaries ...

Trump administration officials on Wednesday said economic pressure on Iran is working and will eventually force the regime to agree to a peace deal, even as commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz remains low.