National Security

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with the new Syrian government is “developing very actively,” and could lead to Russia keeping some military bases that it feared losing when its client Bashar Assad was overthrown in December 2024.

The DR Congo counted 101 fatalities, 19 recoveries, and 550 confirmed cases in the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak as of Sunday.

The State Department is dismantling birth tourism networks across Africa and Europe, officials announced on Wednesday.

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) reports that China is now the largest foreign investor in Central Asia, surpassing Russia after a decade of growing investments in oil, gas, mining, and transportation infrastructure.

President Donald Trump urged Congress Wednesday to provide a short-term FISA extension as he taps Bill Pulte to be Acting DNI.

Multiple reports indicate that the State Department is encouraging European countries to impose Ebola travel restrictions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned in a message on Tuesday that American forces should leave the Middle East “if you want to be safe,” threatening a response after the Pentagon confirmed pervasive airstrikes against Iranian military sites that day.

Apostolic Nuncio Paolo Borgia on Monday visited several villages in southeastern Lebanon whose residents have refused to leave, despite the ongoing battle between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed terrorists of Hezbollah.

The Pentagon added tech giant Alibaba, EV titan BYD, and search engine Baidu to its list of companies linked to China’s military.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has sanctioned over 100 members of Nicaragua’s Ortega regime after the death of Brooklyn Rivera.

Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro will travel to New York on Tuesday to preside over a U.N. Security Council debate as part of a broader two-day itinerary at the United Nations.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday evening that his government will take major steps to crack down on illegal immigration, including the creation of an “Intelligent Population Register” that “contains biometric data for every person in the country.”

A dog slaughterhouse in Yulin, China, shut its doors for good this week, the first beneficiary of a program led by the animal rights groups Vshine Animal Protection Association and Humane World for Animals to help often impoverished dog butchers find new jobs and escape their gruesome livelihoods.

The interim “president” of Venezuela, former Nicolás Maduro henchwoman Delcy Rodríguez, held an in-person meeting with Islamist Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, seeking expanded investments in the impoverished socialist country.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen declared “a complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation” through the Red Sea on Monday.

Chinese companies have reportedly delayed two major refinery projects, capable of producing 500,000 barrels per day combined, due to the shortage of crude oil from the Middle East after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory for himself and Civil Contract party on Monday, winning 51% of the vote.

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, received by the customary throngs of cheering children and demanding his host, Kim Jong-un, pursue a new era of “political mutual trust.”

Conservative Keiko Fujimori maintains a narrow lead against far-left Roberto Helbert Sánchez Palomino in Peru’s presidential runoff.

Lebanese Defense Minister Michel Menassa said on Monday that Israel has conducted 3,491 airstrikes against targets in Lebanon since the U.S.-brokered “ceasefire” began on April 17.

Outgoing Marxist President of Colombia Gustavo Petro triggered a new controversy over the weekend by writing “Heil Hitler” in response to a local opinion piece favorable to outsider conservative presidential frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella.

The latest World Health Organization (W.H.O.) update on the Ebola outbreak centered in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this weekend confirmed 534 cases of the disease in the area, including 93 confirmed deaths.

The Iranian armed forces claimed in comments published on Monday that the missile assault on Israel they launched the day before had concluded — but reportedly threatened continued bombings, including against American oil facilities, if the terror regime considered it necessary.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted Sunday that Europe must play a key role in any negotiations to end the war with Russia as he arrived for talks in London with staunch European allies in the wake of a Russian drone strike that killed three people.

Police on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday arrested a 37-year-old Palestinian man on suspicion of planning “terrorist” attacks and belonging to the militant group Hamas.

Kosovo will hold its third parliamentary election in 18 months this weekend as frustration grows over a continued political impasse in the small Balkan country that is aspiring to move closer to the European Union and NATO.<

(AP) — Residents of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, were told not to leave their homes after a “large-scale” Ukrainian drone attack targeted the city Saturday morning, underscoring Kyiv’s growing ability to hit deep inside Russia, a day after the

The U.S. State Department announced a new round of sanctions Thursday on the crème de la crème of Cuba’s communist Castro family dynasty.

China announced on Friday that dictator Xi Jinping will make his first trip to North Korea since 2019 next week, in a bid to shore up China’s ties with its erratic neighbor after North Korea grew closer to Russia.

“Acting President” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi as India moves to cement its oil and other commercial-related ties with the South American nation.

Roger Kamba, Minister of Public Health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), complained on Friday that travel restrictions against his country due to the Ebola outbreak are “discriminatory” and cannot be justified by science or medicine.

Democrat candidates across the country have been speaking out against President Donald Trump with ease but appear to struggle to answer basic policy questions on the campaign trail.

A federal judge, appointed by former President Barack Obama, has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from halting legal immigration and asylum applications from nearly 40 countries deemed “high-risk” by officials.