Germany’s new foreign intelligence chief has described Moscow as a direct threat to the EU, warning Russia's “icy peace” with the bloc could escalate into “heated confrontation” at any moment.
NATO kicked off its annual nuclear exercise in the Netherlands on Monday. The bloc’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, has stated the drills are necessary to send a “clear signal to any potential adversary.”
The European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas has warned that Moscow is "gambling with war", after a spate of Russian drones and military jets crossed into the bloc's airspace.
The exchange of Palestinian and Israeli prisoners began early Monday, with large numbers of Palestinian detainees released from Israel’s Ofer Prison near the Beitunia settlement, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency.
Syrian Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi has announced that he has reached a "preliminary agreement" with Damascus on the integration of his troops into Syria's military and security forces.
US President Donald Trump has stated that he might talk to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about the possibility of sending long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kiev. He did not elaborate on whether he has made the decision, speaking to reporters on Sunday.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky lobbied his allies for more air defences on Sunday, warning that Russia was "taking advantage" of attention shifting away from the Ukraine war to intensify its bombardment of the country.
President Donald Trump has stated that the United States wants to help China, not hurt it, striking a conciliatory tone days after threatening an additional 100 percent tariff on the world's second-largest economy.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has stated that he instructed the army to prepare for the demolition of what he claimed are underground tunnels used by the Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Leaked American military documents have exposed a covert US-led partnership between Israel and six key Arab countries against Tehran amid Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
A circulated video shows Israeli security officers abusing Palestinian prisoners assembled at the Negev prison in southern Israel, ahead of their release as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
Despite United States President Donald Trump's reluctance to impose additional economic pressure on Moscow, some 77% of Americans are in favor of implementing additional sanctions on Russia to force an end to its war effort, a recent poll Harvard/Harris X poll showed.
The United Kingdom has announced two Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft joined a 12-hour NATO patrol earlier this week near Russia’s border, following a series of "Russian drone and aircraft incursions" into alliance airspace.
Washington has been assisting Kiev in carrying out drone attacks on energy facilities inside Russia for the past several months, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed American and Ukrainian officials.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged his American counterpart Donald Trump to use the momentum of the Gaza ceasefire to broker peace in Ukraine, as the two leaders spoke by phone on Saturday.
Beijing stressed that it won’t yield to Washington’s latest tariff threats, urging the United States to seek a negotiated settlement instead of escalating tensions.
Taliban and Pakistani soldiers have exchanged fire across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, prompting calls for restraint from several countries, as tensions escalate following an air attack on the Afghan capital, Kabul, earlier this week.
Hamas is ready to fight back if United States President Donald Trump’s peace accord unravels and hostilities with Israel resume in the Gaza Strip, a senior official told AFP on Saturday.
Israeli air attacks on a southern Lebanese village have killed one person and wounded seven others, temporarily severing a key route connecting Beirut to the country’s south, in the latest near-daily violation by Tel Aviv of the November 2024 ceasefire it signed with Hezbollah.
