SEOUL—North Korea recently executed its defense chief and three other high-ranking officials, according to South Korea’s National Intelligence Service. If confirmed, the executions would be the latest in a series of purges in Pyongyang that raise concerns about the stability of the Kim Jong Un regime. In a closed-door door parliamentary committee meeting Wednesday, South […]
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition continued airstrikes against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen Monday, a day before a humanitarian cease-fire is due to go into effect. The jets bombed the Saada region near the Saudi border, as well as Taiz in southwestern Yemen and the oil-producing Marib province in the east. Saudi and U.S. officials […]
Several events have coincided to demonstrate the dynamic, if not guarded, relationship between Russia and the Nordic and Baltic states. Ten NATO countries and Sweden launched a two-week planned exercise in the North Sea on May 4 to improve their anti-submarine warfare capabilities. On the same day, Finland — not a NATO member — began […]
New evidence uncovered by French investigators in the crash of the Germanwings airliner in the March crash in the French Alps points toward premeditation and and deliberation in the incident. According to the investigators, Andreas Lubitz, the co-pilot on the ill-fated flight, practiced controlled gradual descents earlier in the day of the fateful crash. Investigations […]