French special forces boarded an Iranian smuggling vessel bound for Yemen and recovered thousands of assault rifles and anti-tank missiles this month. A French warship halted a suspected smuggling vessel off the Yemeni coast on Jan. 15, sending French special forces operators
Ukraine “seriously” needs the West to supply “up to five brigades” with of F-16 fighter jets to replace the currently Soviet-era fleet because the technology is “inferior”, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Forces has said. The spokesman of the Air Force
A senior U.S. general has recently warned U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace that the British Army is no longer considered to be among the world’s top-tier fighting forces, according to a Sunday report. The source told Wallace that decades of cuts to
A global chemical weapons watchdog group released the results of a nearly two-year-long investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Douma, Syria, in 2018, on Friday, concluding that Syrian government forces were behind the attack. The Organization for the Prohibition of
Jerusalem and the West Bank remain on edge Friday even as tensions eased after a night of rocket fire and airstrikes were exchanged between Israeli and Palestinian forces. Both sides appeared to be avoiding an all-out clash in the Gaza Strip, though
Syrian Kurdish-led forces captured a local commander of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria as part of an ongoing operation targeting sleeper cells in the city of Raqqa, the U.S.-backed forces announced Thursday. The commander served as the chief of the
As many as 20 Republican-controlled states are believed to have filed a lawsuit on Tuesday asking a federal judge in Texas to halt an immigration policy recently unveiled by President Joe Biden. Claiming that it would allow up to 30,000 migrants from
Russian forces are preparing for a “big offensive” that could prove “pivotal” to the conclusion of the war, a Ukrainian intelligence official has said. Major General Vadym Skibitskyi, Deputy Head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine said he expected the “spring and
Three one-way drones, sometimes called “kamikaze” drones, targeted a U.S. garrison at an outpost in Syria’s Al-Tanf region U.S. Central Command said Friday, noting that no Americans were injured in the attack. Two members of the Syrian Free Army received medical attention
U.S. and coalition forces carried out a helicopter assault on an ISIS stronghold in Syria on Thursday, capturing a one extremist involved in global recruiting for the terrorist organization. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) carried out the operation on Wednesday in partnership with