Russia’s new defense minister shows economy is firmly on war footing

Pentagon expands Middle East response as Israel, Iran trade strikes

U.S. refueling aircraft and warships have been dispatched to safeguard U.S. interests as the deadly conflict shows no sign of abating....

Russia fears Israel’s conflict with Iran could cost it another Mideast ally

When Israel first started bombing Iran, many in Russia saw it as an opportunity, a means of drawing support and attention away from Ukraine....

Live updates: Israel issues evacuation warning for Tehran as attacks on Iran enter fourth day

Iran launched a wave of missiles just hours after Israel said it was striking missile sites in central Iran. Israel says it hit Quds Force command centers....

Israel appears to take aim at Iran’s regime with expanded targets

New targets appear to indicate an expansion of Israel’s war aims beyond the Iranian nuclear facilities that consumed the first days of the conflict....

Trump had visions of Middle East ‘peace.’ Netanyahu had other ideas.

Last month, Donald Trump declared that, “for the first time in a thousand years, the world will look at this region not as a place of turmoil and strife, and war and death, but as a land of opportunity and hope.”...

The Israeli military issued its first evacuation warning for Iranian civilians nationwide who may be near...

Ukraine’s field hospitals keep getting hit, so they are moving underground

Ukrainians say the Russians systematically target their medical facilities. This underground prototype offers an answer....

In ordering major attack on Iran, Netanyahu sheds his inhibitions

The strikes are a sign of Israel’s shift away from restraint, containment and short wars, and toward using force to project power across the Middle East....

Violeta Chamorro, Nicaraguan leader who helped end civil war, dies at 95

She called for national reconciliation and, in 1990, became her country’s first female head of state...

Russia’s offensive pushes closer to northern city of Sumy, opens new front

Russia says it has moved into the previously unscathed Dnipropetrovsk region to create a buffer zone, a claim Ukraine has dismissed....

Trump warns Israel could strike Iran; U.S. officials say no military support

As Middle East tensions rise, the Trump administration works on a diplomatic solution to the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program as Israel prepares to attack....

Attack leaves Kyiv choked in smoke, hits Odessa maternity hospital

The escalation in aerial attacks comes as Russia begins a summer push on the 620-mile front line in the country’s east....

Russia launches war’s largest drone assault, Ukraine’s air force says

The warring sides also exchanged prisoners in one of the few results of talks last week, and Russia reported new attacks on the front line....

Ukraine’s previous president says he knows how to win over Trump

Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is a rival to Zelensky and under sanctions, but says he knows how to get the American relationship back on track....

Trump travel ban targets nations mired in civil wars or armed conflicts

Of the 12 countries from which travel is fully restricted, three are embroiled in bloody civil wars. Many of the other countries are also undergoing conflicts....

Russian officials delight in Trump-Musk rift, offer mediation, asylum

Officials offered to mediate and even asylum for Elon Musk as many commented how a leader falling out with a top businessman was familiar to Russia....

Ukrainian cities pounded by Russia in retaliation for Sunday drone strike

The Russian attacks come after President Donald Trump likened the two sides to children on a playground who needed “to fight for a while.”...

After Putin call, Trump suggests Ukraine, Russia should ‘fight for a while’

The comments, in an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, were Trump’s clearest indication to date that he was unsure he would be able to quell Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine....

U.K. to build attack submarines and munitions factories to counter Russia

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says new military projects will create jobs but it is unclear the British public supports increased defense spending demanded by President Trump....

German city evacuates 20,000 after unexploded World War II bombs are found

Authorities in Cologne said this was the largest evacuation of the city since World War II. Unexploded ordnance has commonly been found across Europe....

Trump says Putin to retaliate over Ukraine attacks as peace remains distant

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Russian terms to end the war, while Vladimir Putin dismissed any meetings with what he called a terrorist regime....

A drone strike devastated Russia’s air force. The U.S. is vulnerable, too.

The audacious attacks on Russian airfields highlight the power of unconventional, asymmetric warfare — and the threat to U.S. strategic bases and ports, experts say....

As Russia reels from drone attack, Ukraine targets vital Crimean Bridge

Explosions in the morning and afternoon rocked the symbolic bridge, but after several hours of closure, authorities said the span connecting Crimea to Russia, had reopened....

Ukraine’s ‘Operation Spiderweb’ hit at least 12 planes, visuals show

A Washington Post analysis of videos and satellite imagery offers insight into the damage from Ukraine’s brazen drone strike attack. ...

Israel says it fired ‘warning shots’ near aid site; health officials say 27 dead

Israel’s military said it fired warning shots at Palestinians who strayed from a route. Dozens more were injured in the shooting in Rafah, health officials and the Red Cross said....

Ukraine, Russia hold brief talks, agree on prisoner exchange but little else

The second round of talks was even shorter than the first and didn’t address any substantive issues to ending the three-year conflict....

Brazen drone strike showcases Ukrainian innovation as war grinds on

The attack injected some much-needed optimism into Ukraine, beleaguered by years of war and worn down by what many see as U.S. pressure to concede to Russian demands....

Nationalist candidate backed by Trump wins Polish presidency

Karol Nawrocki, a conservative nationalist whom Donald Trump invited to the Oval Office, prevailed in a tight race over liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski....

Ukraine attacks Russian air bases in far-reaching drone strikes

Drones smuggled into Russia hit bases as far away as Siberia and the far east, destroying 41 aircraft that carry cruise missiles and detect enemy planes, said a Ukrainian official....

In Asia, Hegseth warns of China ‘threat,’ but few want to pick sides

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he came to Asia’s preeminent security forum to talk “tanks, not tariffs.” But for other leaders, Trump’s trade war was hard to set aside....