Ukraine’s army chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said he discussed continued military support for Kyiv and battlefield developments with British Defense Chief Antony Radakin.
“Admiral Sir Antony Radakin once again assured me of the United Kingdom’s readiness to provide military assistance to the Ukrainian Defense Forces,” Syrskyi said in a statement on Facebook.
At least 70 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza on Thursday, after Israel resumed its bombing campaign on the enclave, a Gaza health official said. Medics said Israeli strikes targeted several houses in northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Hamas said…
Iran will consider the “opportunities” as well as the threats in a letter from US President Donald Trump that urged it to reach a new nuclear deal, and will soon respond, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected Trump’s letter last week as deceptive, saying Trump’s excessive demands would…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Norway on Thursday for an official visit following a trip to Finland, the Norwegian government said in a statement, amid intensive diplomatic efforts to end the war with Russia. Zelenskyy, after speaking on Wednesday with US President Donald Trump, said a halt on energy strikes in the war could…
A Russian military plane entered South Korea’s air defense zone on Thursday without prior notice, South Korea’s defense ministry said. Russian warplanes had gone into the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone eight times between March 11 and Thursday, according to the ministry. Moscow does not recognize South Korea’s air defense zone. South Korea’s defense ministry…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday called on Azerbaijan to begin consultations on signing a peace treaty, a text of which the arch-foe Caucasus neighbors agreed upon last week. Baku and Yerevan fought two wars for control of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated region of Karabakh, at the end of the Soviet Union and again in 2020,…
Iranian authorities have released French citizen Olivier Grondeau, detained by the country since October 2022 on security charges, and he has returned to France, President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday. Grondeau, 34, “is free and with his loved ones,” Macron wrote on X, adding that “our mobilization will not weaken” to ensure the release of two…
