Venezuelans awoke Friday to a major power outage in the capital, Caracas, and several states. President Nicolas Maduro’s government blamed the outage, which it said began about 4:50 a.m., on “electrical sabotage.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the commander of the country’s air force Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment and killed the pilot.
U.S. military spouses may soon be searching for apartments and the best place for pierogis in Poznan, home of the first permanent American base in Poland.
An airman charged with sexually assaulting a minor, testifying in the case for the first time in a Japanese court on Friday, said he believed the girl was 18 and gave her consent.
In the three years since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan, a smattering of volunteers in the United States have worked to get some of the nation’s Afghan allies out of the Taliban-controlled country and into new lives abroad.
Japan’s Ministry of Defense asked for a record-high 8.5 trillion yen — about $58.7 billion — on Friday for fiscal 2025, the third year of a planned military buildup.
The 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base, 120 miles south of Seoul, reported an airman death Friday, the third in a span of five weeks.
The absence of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Indo-Pacific poses no immediate risk to regional security but exposes the U.S. Navy’s inability to project a complete global presence, a defense expert told Stars and Stripes.
The massive typhoon that churned ashore in southern Japan became a tropical storm by Friday but didn’t move far from its beachhead.
Thousands of U.S. and South Korean troops have concluded an annual large-scale exercise the two allies describe as defensive drills, and North Korea claims destabilizes the region.
A 4-year-old boy who accidentally broke a rare 3,500-year-old jar in an Israeli museum has been forgiven and even invited back, as curators hope to turn the incident into a teachable moment. The restoration of the jar is expected to be completed in a matter of days, and it could be back on exhibit as early as next week.
The Army commander in charge of the U.S. military’s Gaza pier project called the mission the biggest “organizational leadership challenge” he has ever experienced. Even so, Col. Sam Miller said the Army learned a number of lessons during the four-month mission.
House Republican leaders plan votes early next month on a series of measures targeting Chinese companies, including one that would bar federal contractors from doing business with five Chinese biotechnology firms.
Gokhan Gun, a civilian engineer for the Air Force, will be held in jail as he awaits trial on charges he mishandled more than 150 pages of classified documents, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
A former Alabama National Guard soldier pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to driving migrants from the Mexican border into Texas while he was deployed to assist Customs and Border Protection.
The reported altercation at Arlington National Cemetery involving Donald Trump’s staff was far from the first time that veterans or the families of service members have criticized the former president for words or behavior they saw as disparaging.
The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been making efforts to halt fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, with little progress. The conflict has displaced more than a million and triggered ethnically driven massacres in Sudan’s Darfur region.
The tender will mark a change in strategy by the IDF, which in recent months has preferred the Chinese drone industry over Israel’s drone makers.
Betty St. John, an 85-year-old veteran, has secured her 85th medal at the 2024 National Veterans Golden Age Games, proving that age is no barrier to staying fit and active.