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Dec 11, 2024
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Taiwan reports China has deployed nearly 90 naval and coast guard vessels in regional waters, creating the biggest maritime operation in almost three decades.
Dec 10, 2024
Syrian rebels freed hundreds of prisoners from the notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascus following Assad's fall from power, giving hope to families of an estimated 96,000 people who disappeared under his regime.
Dec 9, 2024
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia after his regime collapsed in just 11 days, as rebels led by Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani's Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group rapidly captured major cities including Aleppo, Hama, Homs, and finally Damascus.
Dec 6, 2024
Syrian rebels captured the strategic city of Hama on December 5, 2024, marking their most significant victory in a lightning-fast offensive that began with taking Aleppo just a week prior.
Dec 5, 2024
President Yoon appointed Saudi ambassador Choi Byung-hyuk as defense minister after Kim Yong-hyun resigned following the martial law controversy.
Dec 4, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday night, citing threats from "pro-North Korean forces," but was forced to lift it after Parliament voted 190-0 against the measure in an emergency session where lawmakers had to scale fences to enter the National Assembly.
Dec 3, 2024
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The US Navy is testing a new TRAM system that will enable warships to reload missiles at sea, transforming a two-month port delay into a matter of days.
Dec 2, 2024
China has established an interagency group studying Russia's sanctions-evasion tactics since the Ukraine war, regularly reporting to leadership about potential strategies for a Taiwan conflict scenario.
Nov 29, 2024
The U.S. and Japan are developing a joint military plan to deploy HIMARS missile systems on the Nansei Islands chain (which stretches within 200km of Taiwan) by December 2024, marking their first collaborative operation specifically designed to counter a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Nov 28, 2024
A Chinese bulk carrier, Yi Peng 3, is currently surrounded by NATO warships in the Baltic Sea after allegedly dragging its anchor for over 100 miles and severing two critical underwater data cables while transporting Russian fertilizer with its transponder turned off.
Nov 27, 2024
Israel and Lebanon approved a cease-fire beginning Wednesday, ending over a year of conflict with Hezbollah and potentially defusing broader regional tensions – a deal facilitated by U.S. and French diplomacy and announced by President Biden.
Nov 26, 2024
U.S. President Biden and French President Macron are reportedly poised to announce an imminent ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, with Israel's cabinet set to meet Tuesday to approve the deal text, though White House officials caution that "nothing is done until everything is done."
Nov 25, 2024
Vice President Sara Duterte publicly announced she has contracted an assassin to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his wife Liza, and House Speaker Martin Romualdez if she herself is killed – a statement she later attempted to downplay as merely expressing concern over threats to her own life.
Nov 22, 2024
Brazilian federal police have uncovered evidence that former President Bolsonaro and 36 allies allegedly orchestrated a sophisticated coup attempt to prevent President Lula da Silva from taking office, which included an assassination plot code-named "Green Yellow Dagger" targeting both Lula and his vice president.
Nov 21, 2024
Colonel General Kim Yong Bok, formerly a secretive special forces commander and now North Korea's third-highest military official, has emerged from obscurity to lead 11K North Korean troops deployed to support Russian forces in Ukraine.
Nov 20, 2024
Ukraine used U.S.-provided ATACMS long-range missiles to strike a Russian ammunition depot in the Bryansk region for the first time, marking a significant escalation in the conflict that came shortly after President Biden authorized their use.
Nov 19, 2024
ATACMS missiles, with a range of 190 miles and launched from HIMARS systems, can be armed with either cluster munitions or conventional warheads and could potentially reach hundreds of Russian military targets.
Nov 18, 2024
President Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles for strikes inside Russia, which marks a significant policy change during his final months in office.
Nov 15, 2024
China has surpassed the United States as the dominant trading partner in most Latin American economies, with $286B in regional projects including infrastructure, mining, and technology investments across the region.
Nov 14, 2024
A CIA officer named Asif William Rahman was arrested in Cambodia and charged with leaking classified documents that revealed Israel's potential military plans against Iran.
Nov 13, 2024
Over 500 bomb threats paralyzed Indian aviation in the last two weeks of October 2024—more than all previous threats this year combined—disrupting 136 flight routes including 50 international destinations spanning from Melbourne to New York.
Nov 12, 2024
Human Rights Watch, a leading rights group, is calling for an international force to protect civilians in war-torn Sudan, as reports that well-established paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces has killed dozens of civilians and committed widespread rapes during recent rampages.
Nov 11, 2024
Current and former advisers of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump anticipate that he will navigate widening conflicts across the globe by both building deterrence against foreign rivals and favoring transactional policies with Western allies, using personal diplomacy as his first line of defense.
Nov 8, 2024
Netanyahu and Israeli allies celebrated Trump's election win, but the Middle East landscape is drastically different from 2016, with Israel now fighting multiple fronts and requiring significant U.S. military support to counter Iranian threats.
Nov 7, 2024
Arab leaders across the Middle East, including those from Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar, swiftly congratulated Donald Trump on his presidential victory, with many hoping he can leverage his personal relationships with regional leaders to resolve ongoing conflicts.
