JERUSALEM: Israel will raise defence spending by 42 billion shekels (US$12.5 billion) in 2025 and 2026, the finance and defence ministries said on Thursday (Jul 17), citing the country's security ...

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with ...

James Heappey's rare mea culpa came after other ministers sought to distance themselves from the catalogue of errors and ...

The State Department condemned recent Israeli strikes in Syria, and Secretary Marco Rubio announced a U.S.-brokered agreement ...

The Ukraine conflict has starkly illuminated the role of drones in modern warfare: both sides exchange hundreds of aerial ...

After days of bloodshed in Syria's Druze city of Sweida, survivors emerged on Thursday to collect and bury the scores of dead ...

Israeli leaders said they launched attacks on Syria this week to protect members of the Druze religious group in the ...

“The Israeli Druze are now trying to use that and urge the Israeli government to protect fellow Druze in Syria,” he said, ...

Tata pledged he would work with Congress and DOD leadership to ensure that the department could better recruit and retain ...

An Israeli strike hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people, injuring 10 others, and ...

The Senate version of the fiscal year 2026 defense policy bill included calls for the Pentagon to add a new assistant secretary to its acquisition and sustainment office and absorb a role at the ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...