Trump's dispatch of the Army's top official to Ukraine was cast by the administration as a fresh approach to ending the conflict.

China has built 350 new missile silos and expanded nuclear warheads by 20% in one year, reaching "war footing," according to new congressional report on military buildup.

The United States has signaled to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Kyiv should accept a U.S.-drafted peace framework to end the war with Russia, according to a Reuters report. The proposal reportedly includes Ukraine giving up territory and agreeing to cuts in its armed forces,

The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources.

An airstrike killed 13 people in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh. It was the deadliest Israeli attack reported since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war a year ago.

Hospitals in Gaza said at least 21 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes Wednesday on both sides of the yellow line established in last month’s ceasefire. The boundary splits the enclave in two, leaving the border zone under Israeli military control while the area beyond it is meant to serve as a safe zone.