A black-market arms dealer who sold guns, anti-tank rockets, anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons to governments and militant groups around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
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Jihadists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pressed an offensive against the jihadist-run Idlib region, a war monitor said.
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In a tiny building in a cramped narrow lane in Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, Mohammad Saleem and his family are cut off from the world and trapped in their home as an Indian military lockdown enters its third week.
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North Korea on Friday bluntly criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in for continuing to hold military exercises with the United States and for his rosy comments on inter-Korean diplomacy, and said Pyongyang has no plans to talk with Seoul.
Read moreSudan’s military rulers and protest leaders on Saturday are scheduled to sign a landmark deal reached after a bloody uprising which is meant to pave the way for civilian rule.
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President Trump says North Korea’s Kim Jong-un wants to meet again to “start negotiations” after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end, and that Kim apologized for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests that has rattled U.S. allies in the region.
Read moreA federal court dismissed a case brought by surviving family members of three U.S. Army Special Forces trainers who were killed at the entrance to a Jordanian air base in 2016. The family members claims that a First Sergeant in the Jordanian military wrongfully killed the soldiers and that Jordan aided and abetted the terrorist attack fail, because the country has sovereign immunity.
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North Korea continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing two presumed short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Tuesday while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing military exercises that the North says could derail nuclear diplomacy.
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North Korea on Tuesday said U.S.-South Korean war games are a “flagrant violation” of efforts to reach peace on the Korean peninsula and reflect a lack of “political will” to improve relations.
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India’s government revoked disputed Kashmir’s special status with a presidential order Monday as thousands of newly deployed troops arrived and internet and phone services were cut in the restive Himalayan region where most people oppose Indian rule.
Read moreWith momentum apparently building for a breakthrough in talks between Washington and the Taliban, younger Afghans whose lives have been overshadowed by nearly 18 years of war are skeptical any deal will bring them peace.
Read moreAfter fighting more than a year in court to defend a rule that delayed noncitizens’ military careers, the Pentagon rolled out a new policy this week that speeds up the process of screening enlistees for “foreign influence.”
Read moreNorth Korea carried out its third missile test in eight days Friday, according to the South’s military, but U.S. President Donald Trump said he had “no problem” with the spate of launches by Pyongyang.
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Russia has sent army soldiers to help fight forest fires that have burned nearly 12,000 square miles in Siberia and the Far East — an area the size of Belgium.
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North Korea said Thursday that Kim Jong-un supervised the first test firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could enhance its ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Read moreAn Afghan soldier shot and killed two American service members in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said Monday.
Read moreReadying a blow to press freedoms, the European Court of Justice found Monday that the online publication of military briefings might have violated the German government’s copyright.
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New Mexico’s Environment Department and attorney general filed an injunction asking that the U.S. Air Force be compelled to quickly clean up contamination from toxic firefighting foam that lingers in the ground around Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.
Read moreThe state of California sued Move America Forward, a nonprofit with the purported aim of supporting U.S. troops with care packages, claiming it uses donations to fund and endorse political candidates and to pay rent of its director’s public relations firm and his Tea Party Express political organization.
Read moreFormer U.S. Marine Bradley White, 31, of Oakley, Calif., faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to conspiring to defraud the military health care program Tricare out of more than $65 million, from which he got $195,000.
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