U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed late on Saturday that the United States, Great Britain and their allies carried out a series of strikes against 13 different targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Saturday.
The strikes were designed to diminish the ability of the Houthi rebels to carry out further attacks against vessels traversing the waters of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
RIYAK, Lebanon (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat said Thursday that his country could officially recognize a Palestinian state after a cease-fire in Gaza without waiting for the outcome of what could be yearslong talks between Israel and the Palestinians on a two-state solution.
Foreign Secretary David Cameron, speaking to The Associated Press during a visit Thursday to Lebanon intended to tamp down regional tensions, said no recognition could come while Hamas remained in Gaza, but that it could take place while Israeli negotiations with Palestinian leaders were continuing.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, blasted Israel for defending itself against the Iranian-supported terror organization Hamas. They made their statements during a top-level bilateral meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara.
The meeting is particularly noteworthy as Turkey is officially a NATO member while the Islamic regime of Iran is vehemently anti-Western in its political orientation.
The United States plans to deploy nuclear weapons in Great Britain for the first time in 15 years as the threat from Russia increases, according to reports from The Telegraph.
Contracts for the supply of a new facility at the Royal Air Force Base Lakenheath in Suffolk confirm that the United States intends to deploy nuclear warheads at the airbase. These warheads are reported to be three times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
(January 24, 2024 / JNS) At the United Nations’ quarterly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian file on Tuesday, U.N. member states pressed Israel to advance the creation of a Palestinian state.
Drawing intense interest amid Israel’s war with Hamas, the meeting was upgraded to the ministerial level, and was attended by foreign ministers from France, Russia, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Norway, the Palestinian Authority and elsewhere.
(January 23, 2024 / JNS) E.U. diplomats said on Monday in Brussels that a two-state solution is the only credible path to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after earlier threatening “consequences” if Israel continued to oppose the plan.
“We have to stop talking about the peace process and start talking about the two-state solution process,” Josep Borrell, the E.U.’s high representative for foreign affairs, told press at a meeting of the Council of the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council.
If nations do not perceive the threat from Russia as significant and fail to take suitable action within the Alliance, World War III could occur within 18 months, warns Ben Hodges, the ex-commander of US land forces in Europe.
The British "Daily Mail" quotes the cautionary words of the American general, which are in response to the leak of the secret document from the German Ministry of Defense.
The surge in global conflict that marred the year 2023 has set alarm bells ringing in the halls of European defence establishments.
Not three weeks of 2024 have passed, and the governments of Estonia, Sweden and now the UK have already warned their respective nations that the prospect of large-scale war is on the horizon.
German classified documents show Russia could expand its war on Ukraine by attacking NATO ally countries next year, according to reports.
German newspaper BILD published classified documents outlining how Germany plans to prepare for an offensive by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
(Bloomberg) -- Houthi rebels in Yemen said US and UK fighter jets hit Jadaa mountain in Al-Lahayah district in the Red Sea province of Hodeida in a new strike Sunday evening.
Al-Masirah TV, operated by the Iran-backed military group, reported that fighter jets and surveillance drones are still hovering over the Hodeida region.
The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory airstrikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, a U.S. official said Thursday.
The official said that the strikes involved a mix of fighter jets and Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from Navy surface ships and a U.S. Navy submarine, according to two U.S. officials.
More than two centuries of peace in Sweden could come to an end, the country’s civil defence minister has warned in a new rousing speech.
With the country expected to join NATO by the end of this year, the country could soon be roped into armed conflict and citizens have been warned to ‘brace for war’.
The U.S. Navy and the U.K.’s Royal Navy foiled a major Houthi attack Tuesday night in the Red Sea, shooting down 18 one-way drones and three missiles targeting commercial ships.
The incident began at around 9:15 p.m. local time when the Houthis launched "Iranian-designed one-way attack" drones, "anti-ship cruise missiles, and an anti-ship ballistic missile," Centcom said in a post on X. According to Centcom, the weapons were launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
Nearly 400 flood warnings and alerts are still in place across Britain as some rivers have reached record high levels.
More than 1,800 properties have already flooded amid the persistent rainfall, but the Environment Agency (EA) said that this is not the end as further incidents are expected in the next five days.
Anew volcanic dike under the surface of Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula threatens to open up, officials have warned less than a month after a highly anticipated eruption, as signs point to another lava fissure breaking through.
The Icelandic Meteorological Office said on Tuesday that the land around a geothermal power plant at Svartsengi—which had been rising due to magma accumulation in a horizontal intrusion in the Earth's crust—had slowed in its inflation, indicating that "magma pressure is rising" and "increasing the chances of new dike intrusion and also [a] volcanic eruption."
(January 2, 2024 / JNS) Turkish authorities arrested 33 persons on suspicion of conducting espionage activities on behalf of Israel, local media reported on Tuesday.
The arrest operation took place over eight provinces.
The UK is preparing to send a warship to Guyana in a show of diplomatic and military support for the former British colony, the BBC has learned.
It comes after neighbouring Venezuela renewed its claim for a disputed part of Guyanese territory that is rich in oil and minerals.
According to "Bild", Pistorius believes that Germany must cease dreaming of peace and start readying itself for a potential war, This involves focusing on augmenting its expenditure on armament.
Christoph Heusgen, who leads the Munich Security Conference, shares this view. He highlights the need for drones in modern warfare. The Bundestag endorsed the acquisition of 140 Heron 1 drones in April 2022, expecting them to be fully operational by mid-2024.
GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland, sending a flash of light into the evening sky and spewing semi-molten rock into the air in a spectacular show of Earth’s power in the land known for fire and ice.
The eruption Monday night appears to have occurred about 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) from the town of Grindavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The town near Iceland’s main airport was evacuated in November after strong seismic activity damaged homes and raised fears of an imminent eruption.
