LONDON — Britain announced Monday it will supply an unspecified number of long-range missile launchers to Ukraine, following the United States’ decision last week to send similar weapons. Ukrainian troops will be trained to use the systems in Britain in the coming weeks. Ukraine has repeatedly asked the West to supply longer-range weapons as it faces […]
PENTAGON – Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles into at least two Iraqi airbases that house U.S. troops, the Pentagon says. VOA correspondent Carla Babb broke the story late Tuesday when she was told the al-Asad airbase was hit by rocket fire. The Pentagon later said the Irbil airbase was also […]
Days after the U.S. ditched a Cold War-era weapons treaty with Russia, President Vladimir Putin on Monday said his country would move to develop new intermediate-range nuclear missiles if the U.S. did so first. “If Russia obtains reliable information that the United States has finished developing these systems and started to produce them,” Putin said in a statement, […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea launched a fresh round of short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast early Friday, U.S. and South Korean officials say. It is the third such launch in just more than a week. The North launched two projectiles around 3 a.m. local time from South Hamgyong […]