Trump’s answer comes at a time of increased pressure from NATO regarding increased levels of Russian escalation in Europe. Several countries, including Lithuania, Estonia, and the Czech Republic, have urged NATO to implement a stronger response to Russian provocations, including shooting down Russian jets that breach the alliance’s borders.  The…

NATO has been on high alert since Russia invaded Ukraine more than three and a half years ago, but a recent spike in the alliance’s airspace violations has security experts increasingly concerned that warnings of war with Moscow are no longer theoretical, but inevitable.President Donald Trump on Thursday said the…

Thousands of people were forced to evacuate a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong overnight while experts sweated through the delicate work of defusing an undetonated nearly 5-foot, 1,000-pound bomb left over from World War II. The U.S.-made bomb was found at a construction site in Quarry Bay on Hong Kong’s west…

I’ve been reporting from the Mideast for some 25 years now. And that hackneyed cliche still works … “The more things change … The more they stay the same”. Which is not to say the three weeks we’ve stayed here this time have been dull. There have been more ups and downs than…

An elderly British couple were released by the Taliban this week after eight months in captivity. Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter Reynolds, 80, arrived in Qatar on Friday following months of negotiations between Qatar, the Taliban and Britain.  The couple had lived in Afghanistan for 18 years, where they ran an…

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social Friday that he ordered a lethal strike on a vessel allegedly linked to a designated terrorist organization “conducting narco-trafficking” in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility.The strike, carried out on a vessel confirmed by intelligence to be trafficking illicit narcotics, left three…

President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Friday that he ordered a lethal strike on a vessel linked to a designated terrorist organization “conducting narco-trafficking” in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility.The strike — which was carried out on a vessel confirmed by intelligence to be trafficking illicit…

Serbia will showcase 19 new weapon systems at Saturday’s military parade, in a display of the Western Balkan nation’s multi-pronged foreign policy balancing EU aspirations with arms deals spanning France, China, Israel and Russia. Officials in Belgrade describe the diversified military procurement as part of the country’s aspiration to neutrality.…

A leading independent watchdog organization published a report this work, on how the Hamas terrorist movement took control over the education system in Gaza and Lebanon from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).The watchdog group — UN Watch — titled its 220-page…

The European Commission on Friday condemned “those who are importing” the war in Gaza to Europe and will “step up” its protection of Jewish citizens, a Commission spokesperson told Euronews. The Commission reacted to a recent letter sent by more than 100 European rabbis to President Ursula von der Leyen, warning…