President Vladimir Putin is demanding to know why Russia’s intelligence service didn’t spot the growing threat to Assad’s rule until it was too late.

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that his government will protect major television stations in the country, like the U.S.-owned TVN, against hostile purchases, in a move aimed at protecting from any such attempts by Russia.

The International Council of Air Shows announced Tuesday that U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command’s F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team and the U.S. Marines F-35B Lightning II Demonstration Team are coming to the next National Cherry Festival.

Ukraine has demonstrated skill with long-range drones, hitting deep inside Russia, but experts say it needs the punch and power of ballistic missiles, as well.

The European Union on Wednesday gave a greenlight to Poland and other countries on Europe’s eastern flank to temporarily suspend asylum rights when they believe that Belarus and Russia are “weaponizing” migrants to destabilize the bloc.

Russia could launch its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again soon, the Pentagon said Wednesday, as both sides wrestle for a battlefield advantage that will give them leverage in any negotiations to end the nearly 3-year war.

Khalil Haqqani was the acting minister for refugees and a key member of the notorious Haqqani network.

Five weeks after his three-party governing coalition collapsed in a dispute over how to revitalize Germany’s stagnant economy, Scholz’s office said he had requested the confidence vote in parliament’s lower house, or Bundestag, for Monday. The aim is to hold a parliamentary election on Feb. 23, seven months earlier than originally scheduled.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East this week on his 12th visit since the Israel-Hamas war erupted last year but his first since the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad that has sparked new fears of instability in the region now wracked by three conflicts despite a ceasefire agreement in Lebanon.

Officials at the Navy’s largest base in Italy are determining whether pipes carrying water to homes, child care centers, schools and other facilities at the installation may pose a higher risk of lead contamination.

President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that could serve as a road map for the incoming administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the White House said Wednesday.

North Korea’s contribution of combat troops to aid Russia in Ukraine has drawn global attention and headlines but is only one component of ongoing ominous moves.

Wrestling and basketball results from DODEA-Pacific teams in Japan and South Korea.

Soldiers and their families in Vicenza reveled in their chance this week to meet with a variety of celebrities and enjoy a USO holiday show touring Europe.

Here’s a look at grammar school students in 1960 in Seoul from the Stars and Stripes archives.

Families who must move from 27 recently renovated homes due to potential mold buildup have two options for new housing on the installation, residents said after a forum Tuesday.

Two U.S. Navy destroyers defeated a Houthi militant drone and missile attack earlier this week while escorting merchant ships through the Gulf of Aden, U.S. military officials said.