Tag: War

The Middle East faces a moment of peril. Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel responded with a brutal campaign in Gaza, the region has been on ...

Last month, the U.S. Commission on the National Defense Strategy released a report proposing that the Pentagon develop a “Multiple Theater Force Construct” sized to tackle simultaneous threats in the ...

It’s tempting to believe that the latest escalation in the Middle East, which threatens once again to engulf the entire region in war, killed the prospects of a long-term cease-fire ...

First, the U.S. Defense Department redirected the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group from the Pacific to the Middle East, relieving the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Then, the Pentagon sent more ...

For Ukrainian soldiers facing the near-constant threat of Russian drones, a crude-looking, pocketable drone detector has become one of the most sought-after gadgets on the battlefield. Dubbed Tsukorok, or “sugar,” ...

Wars usually divide people, but Ukraine received overwhelming international sympathy after the full-scale Russian invasion. This was based on several factors. The unprovoked aggression made a moral stance obvious. Historically, ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at rising Middle East tensions during Ismail Haniyeh’s funeral in Qatar, Argentina and the United States backing Venezuela’s opposition candidate, and deadly ...

In his very first statement after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “will immediately use all its ...

A pair of high-profile assassinations has pushed the Middle East closer to the brink of a wider regional war and upended high-stakes cease-fire and hostage negotiations over the war in ...

When Russia began its military intervention in Syria in 2015, shifting the civil war’s momentum in favor of the Assad regime, many in the West grew concerned about the Kremlin’s ...