Victoria Friedman

The Russian Defense Ministry began three days of nuclear drills to practice preparing and deploying nuclear forces amid what it termed threats of aggression.

Trump said that the decision to stand down the U.S. military was at the behest of the leaders of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Norway will join Denmark, Estonia, Finland, ​Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Sweden in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region.

On May 11, Trump told reporters that the ceasefire between the two nations was on ’massive life support.’

Meanwhile, Moscow said that Ukrainian drones had killed four ​people, including a ​child, in ⁠an overnight strike in a central Russian city.

A senior U.S. admiral told a U.S. Senate committee that Iran’s capabilities to threaten U.S. forces and regional interests had been ’substantially degraded.’

The Israeli Foreign Ministry called the piece ‘one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press.’

In September 2025, Ben Wallace recommended helping Kyiv carry out military strikes on the bridge linking southern Russia to Ukraine.

Russia outlawed the Taliban, designating it as a terrorist organization in 2003, but the ban was lifted in April 2025.

Carriers around the world have cut flight schedules and raised prices due to Iran’s efforts to close the Strait of Hormuz.