El Salvador sent more than 4,000 security forces into three communities on the outskirts of the capital to root out gang members Wednesday, as President Nayib Bukele prepared to request another extension of emergency powers to combat crime. Bukele announced the pre-dawn
The US will move Navy ships and fighter jets closer to Israel in a show of solidarity, it has been announced. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he has “directed the movement of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the
As Iran approached the one-year anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody, volunteer members of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard were seen patrolling the streets in western Iran. The death of Amini on September 16, which occurred following her
China is continuously massing forces at its coastal military bases facing Taiwan, the self-governing island warned Tuesday. Taiwan said it is bolstering its own defenses in response. The island’s Defense Ministry issued a report on the expansion of Chinese airfields and military
Russia has deployed the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles that President Vladimir Putin once said would make the world “think twice” for combat, its Roscosmos space agency said Friday. “The Sarmat strategic complex has been put on combat duty,” Roscosmos general director Yuri
Poland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the two neighbors ratchet up. Those tensions between Poland — a NATO and European Union country — and Belarus, which is Russia’s ally
The Polish government announced Wednesday that it is planning to deploy an additional 2,000 troops to its border with Belarus, twice the number the Border Guard agency had requested, as fears of illegal migration rise. In an interview with state news agency
El Salvador sent about 8,000 soldiers and police officers to comb the rural province of Cabañas for street gang members Tuesday, in one of the most massive raids since President Nayib Bukele declared a crackdown on the gangs in March 2022. About
Western Europe could be on the brink of a nuclear disaster according to a leading chemical weapons expert and former British Army colonel. He has claimed it is “quite likely” that Russian forces have planted “explosives” in the reactors at the Zaporizhzhia
The Israeli military deployed thousands of troops and drones in an attack on a Palestinian militant stronghold in the West Bank on Sunday night. Military officials expect the roughly 2,000 troops to remain in the West Bank city of Jenin for up