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A spate of airstrikes by Russian combat jets in eastern Ukraine last week was a sign that Russia’s Air Force may be changing tack after failing to achieve aerial superiority over Ukraine, analysts told The Moscow Times. A Russian Su-25.Russian Ministry of Defence Russian pilots have largely taken a risk-averse approach to air combat in […]

The African Union says a number of Burundian peacekeepers were killed in Tuesday’s attack by rebels who targeted a remote military base in Somalia. The continental body condemned the attack and paid “tribute to the Burundian peacekeepers who lost their lives helping to bring peace and stability to Somalia” in a statement issued on Wednesday. […]

Fresh attempts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol were underway on Wednesday, the day after more than 100 arrived to Ukrainian-held territory and relative safety. The European Commission has proposed a new raft of sanctions against Moscow, including a ban on Russian oil imports.   In this photo taken from video smoke rises from the Metallurgical […]

North Korea launched a ballistic missile eastward from the capital city of Pyongyang on Wednesday afternoon, in continuation of actions raising tension in the run-up to the inauguration of the Yoon Suk-yeol government and the South Korea-US summit. Passersby watch a TV report of North Korea’s missile launch at Seoul Station. (File Photo – Yonhap) […]

Russia fired a barrage of missiles on several regions across Ukraine on the evening of May 3 as heavy fighting intensifies in the east. Approximately 18 Russian missiles hit infrastructure sites across the country. Preliminary reports suggest that at least eight other missiles were downed by Ukraine’s Air Defense, the military said. Fire raging at […]

    Russia’s Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov paid an unusual visit to the frontline in Ukraine amid the Russian military’s slow progress to capture eastern territories, The New York Times reported Sunday. Valery Gerasimov (L), Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, and Russia’s Defence Minister […]

Somalia’s Al-Shabaab group attacked an African Union (AU) mission troop camp in the Shabelle region in the centre of the country, a local elder and the group said on Tuesday, and another resident said three civilians died in the crossfire. Somali men near their destroyed homes following an overnight attack in Mogadishu on February 16, […]

srael lay into Russia on Monday over Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s “dangerous” and “unforgivable” comments about Nazism and anti-Semitism, including that Adolf Hitler was Jewish. Israel summoned the Russian ambassador in response to the remarks that Tel Aviv says blame Jews for their own murder in the Holocaust. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, […]

WASINGTON, D.C. — Russia is planning imminently to “annex” the two eastern regions of Ukraine battered by its invasion after failing to overthrow the Kyiv government, a senior US official said Monday. A Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher BM-21 “Grad” shells Russian troops’ position, near Lugansk, in the Donbas region, on April 10, 2022. (Photo by […]

Ukrainian authorities were hoping Monday, May 2, to evacuate more civilians from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, as Russia’s offensive in the east of Ukraine continued with “active and heavy” fighting. Kyiv said more than 100 civilians were evacuated over the weekend from the sprawling Azovstal plant, the last holdout of Ukrainian forces […]