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New: Russian hackers have turned their sights on Taiwan, Dmitri Alperovitch noted Thursday on social media. Targets include Taiwanese companies and government agencies. Why now? Possibly because just last month, Taiwan’s new president…

Shortly after U.S. officials predicted it publicly, Iran launched more than 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday, with dozens flying over Jerusalem’s Old City, a holy site for Muslims, Christians, and Jewish people around the…

Two U.S. destroyers fired a dozen interceptors to help Israel ward off a barrage of some 180 Iranian ballistic missiles, about twice as many as Tehran launched in its previously unprecedented April 14 strike, Pentagon officials said Tuesday…

Israeli troops have launched additional ground operations inside Lebanon, advancing their gradual escalation northward to push Iran-backed terrorists out of weapons caches and hideouts across southern Lebanon. The Israeli military describes…

Cockpit footage released by the North American Aerospace Defense Command shows a Russian warplane closely buzzing by a U.S. F-16 fighter jet last week—a move U.S. officials have publicly called out as dangerous and unsafe. “On…

After killing Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Iran-backed Hezbollah, in an airstrike in Beirut on Friday, the Israeli military is keeping up its pressure on high-level terrorist leaders in the region, including two commanders from Hamas and…

SECDEF in London: U.S. is making progress on boosting submarine production. “What I’m seeing is that we're investing in the right things, and we will be able to expand the capacity going forward and to meet our objectives,” Defense…

White House’s race against the clock on Ukraine aid: President Joe Biden says he’s routing some $7.9 billion in military support to Ukraine, including $5.5 billion in congressionally-authorized funds that are set to expire if not accessed…

KONA, Hawaii—The U.S. military services are “doing everything that’s possible within the laws of physics” in the Indo-Pacific right now, but the region’s challenges require “every lever of statecraft, not just the military lever,” Adm.…

Zelenskyy at the United Nations: “Russia’s war against Ukraine will end because the UN Charter will work. It must work. Our Ukrainian right to self-defense must prevail,” Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly…