SLOVIANSK, Ukraine (AP) — One Ukrainian brigade had defended the same block of industrial buildings for months without a break. Another had been in Avdiivka for nearly the entire two years of the war, bone-tired but with no replacements to relieve them. Ammunition was low, and the Russian...
Since 2016, for instance, Ukraine has worked with NATO through the Comprehensive Assistance Package and receives support of NATO allies according to NATO standards. This type of NATO cooperation is crucial to Ukraine's the ongoing democratic transition. In September 2020, Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...
Many of the adults spoke quietly of the trauma they still suffer from, because of what they witnessed in Syria. In Lebanon, they found more problems. “We fled the war in our homeland and became refugees in Lebanon, where we are also caught in a cyc...
It uses stark simplicity — a black, semi-reflective wall etched with names — to honor and mourn the sacrifice of the nearly 60,000 American men and women who died in the Vietnam War. In the United States, monument-making didn't become a widespread activity until after the Civil War, ...
The state of the economy, reproductive rights and the war between Ukraine and Russia are expected to form the backbone of his speech, though the administration had been banking on Biden reining in Israel’s military operations in Gaza, where more than 30,000 civilians have...
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Alex Plitsas: We did need help from the Israeli government for approval to move inside of north Gaza… because it can be incredibly dangerous when you try to operate as an independent actor, especially in a war zone. Margaret Brennan: So can you tell us some of the options you con...
The year since Russia invaded Ukraine has been a roller coaster for energy markets. Oil prices have been volatile, with the global Brent benchmark peaking at $133 a barrel in March before falling back around $80 today-below where they traded on the first day of the war. That is nothing ...
September 26, 1977: The Chernobyl nuclear power station, located about 65 miles north of Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), begins supplying power to the grid. February 1986: A Soviet official is quoted saying that the odds of a nuclear meltdown are “one in 10,000 years....
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have seen Russia, Israel and Hamas all accused of committing war crimes. The subject of war crimes is also on my mind since I’m living in Tokyo at the moment. Some 100,000 people are thought to have died in the firebombing of this city in a single nig...