Ukrainians gathered at the site of a Russian strike on a residential area of Lviv, in western Ukraine, in September. The yellow apartment building in the background is where the reporter and his family live.
Moscow has been using decoy drones with no warheads to overwhelm defenses, and surveillance drones and strike drones to gather intelligence, Ukrainian officials said.
An apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, was damaged by debris last week. Attacks in the city by explosive-laden drones have become a near-nightly occurrence.
The Israeli defense minister was fired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel after the two clashed over the course of Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.
Leonard Glenn Francis, known as Fat Leonard, bribed Navy officials with cash and luxury goods in exchange for over $30 million in contracts for his business, officials said.
Yoav Gallant, the ousted cabinet minister, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had sharp public disagreements over Israel’s war against Hamas and what will follow it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, left, and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a news conference at Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 28, 2023, three weeks after the war with Hamas began.
The prime minister has replaced an experienced former general with Mr. Katz, who had been foreign minister and who has staunchly supported Israel’s right-wing government.
Israel Katz addressing the United Nations General Assembly in 2019, during an earlier stint as Israel’s foreign minister. He was named defense minister on Tuesday.
Western officials are investigating whether devices planted at shipping hubs in Europe may have been a test run by Russian operatives for placing them on planes bound for the U.S.
A DHL airplane at the Leipzig/Halle Airport, Germany, in October. Incendiary devices were planted this summer at DHL shipping hubs in Leipzig and Birmingham, England, Western officials said.
A second Donald J. Trump presidency would almost certainly mark a return to an era of foreign policy decrees, untethered to any policy process, at a moment of maximum international peril.
The Pentagon needs what the company offers to compete with China even as it frets over its potential for dominance and the billionaire’s global interests.
China’s large-scale military exercises are encircling Taiwan and testing the island’s defenses. They also raise the risk of conflict, accidental or otherwise.
The Biden administration is struggling to halt cooperation among Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It feels urgency over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East while also aiming to protect Taiwan.
The ballistic missile launch is a sign of the commitment of Xi Jinping, China’s leader, to continue strengthening the country’s Rocket Force and to project power in Asia.
Officials hope that Taiwan can become a bigger player in the supply chain for drones, a move that would also help blunt any threats posed to the island by China.
A congressional report argues that Beijing has exploited ties with American universities to advance technologically, and that further guardrails are needed.
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