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Two recent missile tests conducted by North Korea were of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system, the Pentagon said Thursday, marking what one US official called a "serious escalation" that will be punished with fresh sanctions. According to North Korea, the February 26 and March 4 tests were focused…

Republican U.S. senators are imploring the Biden administration to reverse course and allow the transfer of Poland’s MiG fighter jets to the Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion

Russia-Ukraine news from March 10: Kyiv’s mayor says nearly two million people have left the capital since invasion.

‘At this time, we believe that provision of additional fighter aircraft provides little increased capabilities at high risk’

US secretary of state makes remark in press conference with British foreign secretary Liz Truss

Russia demanded on Wednesday that the United States explain to the world why it had supported what Moscow cast as a military biological program in Ukraine involving deadly pathogens including plague and anthrax. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova demanded transparency from Washington over the allegation, which is denied by Kyiv…

Pentagon says ‘rationale’ of such an offer is not clear to US

Two weeks into its war in Ukraine, Russia has achieved less and struggled more than anticipated at the outset of the biggest land conflict in Europe since World War II

Pentagon says Polish proposal to transfer Soviet-era planes to Kyiv via US base in Germany is not tenable.