The Biden administration bills the sanctions announced Friday as the most significant to date against Moscow’s oil and liquefied natural gas sectors, the driver of Russia’s economy. The sanctions target 183 oil-carrying vessels suspected to be part of a shadow fleet.

A U.S. soldier who admitted to distributing child pornography and attempting to arrange the rape of a young girl was sentenced to nine years in prison during a two-day hearing at Rose Barracks that ended Thursday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin used their final meeting Thursday to press the incoming Trump administration to not give up on Kyiv’s fight, warning that to cease military support now “will only invite more aggression, chaos and war.”

Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday that her government is in talks with several private companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, over the country’s telecoms security system, but denied having discussed the issue privately with Musk.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a plea to press on with support for his war effort 11 days before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged a swift end to the fighting.

The United States will provide Ukraine with an additional $500 million in weapons and equipment, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday, in what’s expected to be the final military aid package to the war-torn country under the outgoing Biden administration.

In one of his final interviews before he leaves office, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the Associated Press the U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic State group from reconstituting as a major threat following the ouster of Bashar Assad’s government.

The U.N.-led meeting, set for this spring, hopes to restart formal talks to resolve one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. Turkey has advocated for a two-state arrangement in which the numerically fewer Turkish Cypriots would never be the minority, but Greek Cypriots fear it would create a potentially permanent Turkish military presence.

The U.S. is set to provide Ukraine an additional $500 million in weapons quickly pulled from its existing stockpiles as the Biden administration works to get Kyiv in a stronger negotiating position before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Ukrainian officials say that a Russian missile attack in the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia has killed at least 13 civilians and wounded about 30 others.

A Ramstein Air Base proposal for Frankfurt Airport shuttle service was scrapped for lack of bids, ending hopes in the largest U.S. military community overseas for a better option to get to the European hub.

An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was freed Wednesday, after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy and wanted by the U.S. Sala’s homecoming marked a major political victory for Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.

Commissary shoppers in Europe will soon have to bring their own bags or purchase a reusable option as base grocery stores progressively phase out single-use plastic bags this month.

US service members stationed in the UK are exempt from a new British arrival procedure, while those based in continental Europe will need to sign up for authorization like most other nonresident visitors before they travel.

President-elect Donald Trump’s assertion this week that the United States must take possession of Greenland cast a spotlight upon U.S. military operations on the landmass, as the Arctic ice thins and competition with Russia and China grows.

Of the 12,000 North Korean troops deployed to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at least 3,800 have been killed or wounded, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.

The Biden administration is set to announce a massive, final weapons aid package for Ukraine as part of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Germany on Thursday to meet with representatives of about 50 partner nations who have come to Ukraine’s defense.

Trump posted a video showing a plane emblazoned with the word TRUMP landing in Nuuk, the Arctic territory’s capital, in a landscape of snow-capped peaks and fjords.