New analysis warns the U.S. nuclear force designed in 2010 cannot handle current global threats and proposes massive expansion including forward deployment to Europe.

The Middle East is a part of the world where conflict seems eternal, peace sporadic. Since President Harry Truman recognized the Jewish state in 1948, many presidents have tried to usher in peaceful relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, only to see conflict erupt again and again.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could restore its borders from before Russia’s invasion and that he believes NATO member countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace,

Russia carried out its “biggest attack yet” on Ukrainian gas, hitting facilities in Kharkiv and Poltava according to Ukraine’s largest national oil and gas company. Naftogaz said the Russian strikes had caused “critical damage” to production facilities in what they said was the largest strike since the Russian invasion in 2022.

Trump’s statement that Ukraine could retake all of its territory lost to Russia with NATO’s help was a dramatic change in U.S. rhetoric on the war.

US President Donald Trump has stated that the slow pace of Russia's occupation of Ukraine, despite large-scale bombardments of Ukrainian cities, is damaging Russia's reputation. He has stressed that the actions of Russian leader Vladimir Putin have led to significant human losses and destruction but have not brought the end of the war any closer.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that Hungary will continue to source fossil fuels from Russia despite demands from his ally U.S. President Donald Trump, and that he’d informed the president that dropping Russian energy would be a “disaster” for Hungary’s economy.

The president posted on Truth Social after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

UNITED NATIONS -- UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believed Ukraine could win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the U.S. leader’s repeated calls for Kyiv to make concessions to end the war.

Russia’s seaborne crude exports stuck at a 16-month high in the past four weeks, with US President Donald Trump so far failing to convince remaining buyers to ditch Moscow’s oil.Four-week average shipments from the country’s ports were 3.