Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the latest meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group on Tuesday included a focus on new security assistance efforts among the group to bolster Kyiv’s capabilities ahead of a potential spring offensive operation. “…

Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed Beijing’s “solidarity” with Tehran on Tuesday as he hosted the Islamic Republic’s President Ebrahim Raisi at the start of a three-day trip.

The US Army launched military exercises with the Kenya armed forces on Monday. American troops will also take part in wargames with Pakistan and separate drills with Japan. This flurry of activity precedes joint South Africa/Russia/China military mano…

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah is “happy” to have been released from prison in Iran but uncertainties remain about when she could return to France, her lawyer said at the weekend.

Over the last week, police have arrested more than 2,000 men in a crackdown on illegal child marriages involving girls under the age of 18 in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

A US warplane shot down an unidentified flying object near the Canadian border on Sunday, the latest of three mysterious devices spotted since military radar settings were adjusted in the wake of the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon.

In a controversial move that has strained its relationships with the EU and the US, South Africa will host naval exercises off its eastern coast with Chinese and Russian ships. The exercises coincide with the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of …

Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after an earthquake devastated Turkey and Syria and killed more than 28,000. UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said he expected the death toll to at leas…

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh alleges that US Navy divers laid the bombs that destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea last September, cutting Russian gas supplies to Europe. The Pentagon has denied the claim but Mosco…