Syrian President Bashar Assad has landed in Russia, according to state media. This comes after a swift offensive targeting Damascus forced him to flee the country on Dec. 7, ending nearly 60 years of Assad family rule in Syria. There were swift reactions from U.S. leaders, including from President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden.…

Russia’s top military officer called his U.S. counterpart last week to warn of live-fire missile tests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The advance notice was given to U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown amid heightened tensions between the United States and Russia. Russia’s Defense Ministry stated that the call aimed to prevent incidents in…

A U.K. defense minister warned the British Army could be wiped out within six months of a large-scale war. Alistair Carns, the nation’s minister for veterans, said a rate of casualties similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would lead to the army’s demise. “In a war of scale, not a limited intervention but one similar…

Two U.S. B-52 bombers conducted a training mission over Finland, simulating weapons drops alongside Finnish and Swedish fighter jets. The operation aligns with NATO’s collective defense initiatives as Finland bolsters its military capabilities following its recent NATO membership. The bombers departed from Fairford Air Base in England, flying over the North Sea, Denmark and the…

One-thousand days into its war, Russia claimed that Ukraine is already using American made long-range missiles to fire deep into its country. In response, President Vladimir Putin amended Russia’s nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for using such weapons. “The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression with the…

With North Korea entering the war, the Biden administration is now allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles inside Russia. And President-elect Donald Trump returned to New York for a UFC showdown this weekend while also making more presidential picks. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. Biden allows Ukraine to strike Russia with…

Sweden recently moved to halt the construction of 13 offshore wind farms along its coast over national security concerns. Officials said there was the potential for this renewable energy infrastructure to hamper the country’s response time in the event of an attack from Russia. Government officials in Sweden expressed concern that moving forward with these…

As President-elect Donald Trump reportedly spoke with both Russia and Ukraine’s president, the war between the two countries rages on. A record number of drone strikes were launched over the weekend.  Ukraine launched its largest attack on Moscow since the start of the war, striking Russia’s capital late Saturday night, Nov. 9, into early Sunday,…

President-elect Trump is already filling positions in his administration as he prepares for a White House meeting with President Biden. And the search continues for more than a dozen monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility last week. These stories and more highlight your Unbiased Updates for Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. President-elect Trump building his…

Russia’s Emergency Ministry has issued a manual instructing its troops on digging mass graves as casualties in Ukraine escalate. Distributed in early November, the 20-page manual includes step-by-step diagrams for constructing graves capable of holding up to 100 bodies. The manual is called the “Civil Defense: Urgent Burials of Corpses in Wartime.” It specifies grave…