Pre-K was implemented this school year in 80 of 90 DODEA elementary schools. The free program, available for children who turn 4 on or before Sept. 1 each year, was offered at all but five of 34 primary schools in Europe — one of those five was Ramstein Elementary School.
A Navy carrier strike group that has battled Iranian-backed Houthi militants for months has left the Middle East and arrived in the Mediterranean Sea.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claims its forces have captured the coal mining town of Toretsk, their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment. The potential losses coincide with uncertainty over whether the U.S. will keep providing Ukraine with military aid.
Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week.
Syria is open to letting Russia keep its air and naval bases along the Mediterranean coast as long as any agreement with the Kremlin serves the country’s interests, Syrian Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra said in an interview this week, underscoring the pragmatic approach taken by his government as it charts new alliances and reassesses old ones forged under the previous regime.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will lead Ukraine’s delegation at the Munich Security Conference next week, which U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, are also expected to attend, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said Thursday.
Cultural observances at Defense Department K-12 schools are out, and clubs, extracurricular activities and library books are all under review in response to executive orders from President Donald Trump.
Spanish police say they have arrested a hacker responsible for more than 40 cyberattacks against the U.S. military, NATO and other organizations.
NATO scrambled two F-35s in the Arctic region, where jets intercepted Russian bombers and fighter planes flying near allied airspace, military officials said.
Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus — and turn to their European Union allies.
Ukraine wants to collaborate with partner countries on postwar projects worth billions of dollars not just in mining rare earth elements, but also in energy and construction sectors to help rebuild the country, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Wednesday.
A European Union fund meant to help speed the deployment of troops, tanks and military equipment around the 27-nation bloc in times of conflict is too small and poorly managed to be effective, auditors said in a report Wednesday.
Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes overnight and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered emergency plans in case the hundreds of temblors over the past few days are a harbinger of a larger quake to come.
Bulgaria will soon be flying American-made F-16s as it transitions from Soviet-era aircraft to modern jets, with some help from U.S. airmen based in Italy.
Next month Navy officials will host a conference in Serbia for businesses to learn about upcoming contracting opportunities. The goodwill created by such projects is an inexpensive way to reach countries that might not be immediately important but collectively would be significant if the U.S. was dealing with a crisis.
At least 10 people, including the gunman, were killed Tuesday at an adult education center in what Sweden’s prime minister called the country’s worst mass shooting. But a final death toll, a conclusive number of wounded and a motive hadn’t yet been determined hours later.
Russia’s crude exports have yet to be curtailed by the latest U.S. sanctions to target its oil, with flows broadly stable. But while loading cargoes onto tankers is one thing, getting them off is another — and signs are emerging that the curbs are stalling the completion of shipments.
In eastern Ukraine, a concert hall requisitioned as a shelter houses people driven from their homes. The center costs the equivalent of $7,000 a month to run, and 60% of that was being covered by U.S. funds sent to help Ukraine. U.S. military aid has not been frozen.
It is Vice President JD Vance’s first scheduled trip abroad since taking office. The AI Action Summit on Feb. 10-11 will gather heads of state and top government officials, CEOs and other actors. China’s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang is also among those expected to attend.