When Ukraine launched its big counteroffensive this spring, Western military officials knew Kyiv didn’t have all the training or weapons—from shells to warplanes—that it needed to dislodge Russian forces. But they hoped Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness would carry the day.

A U.S. drone strike killed an Islamic State group leader in Syria hours after the same MQ-9 Reaper drones were harassed by Russian military jets over the western part of the country, according to the Defense Department.

Neither of Russia's most senior generals has been seen in public since a failed mercenary uprising rocked the country five days ago, as rumors swirled of military purges and arrests and President Vladimir Putin moved to reassert his authority.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary organization, has broken with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

With close to a trillion dollar annual budget, the Pentagon is now ill-prepared to confront China if and when Beijing decides to invade Taiwan; this scenario has senior military commanders at the Pentagon literally scared to death.

The leader of the mercenary outfit that spearheaded Russia’s capture of the eastern Ukraine city of Bakhmut said his soldiers will refuse to join Russia’s regular forces.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms.

Prigozhin's latest statements confirmed the actual scale of Russian combat losses in Ukraine.