Putin Signs Off Record Russian Defense Spending as Top EU Officials Visit Kyiv Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to...
North Korea Ratifies Major Defense Treaty with Russia The treaty is considered both countries’ biggest defense deal since the end of the Cold War.
How Putin Views the Choice Between Harris and Trump, and What the Election Means for Russia The question posed to Vladimir Putin in September about the U.S. election drew a wry smile and an arched eyebrow from the...
Putin Launches Drills of Russia's Nuclear Forces Featuring Retaliatory Strikes Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a massive exercise of the country's nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a...
Putin Ends BRICS Summit That Sought to Expand Russia's Global Clout but Was Shadowed by Ukraine Russian President Vladimir Putin closed a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, praising its role as a...
Russia Flaunts Its Many Doomsday Weapons to Keep the West from Ramping Up Support for Ukraine This year has seen President Vladimir Putin repeatedly brandish the nuclear sword, reminding everyone that Russia has the...
Russian and Iranian Presidents Meet as Concerns Grow over Escalating Middle East Attacks Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iran’s president, at a time when Tehran is supplying weapons for Moscow’s war in Ukraine...
NATO Will Start an Annual Nuclear Exercise as Russia Threatens Ukraine's Western Backers NATO will hold a long-planned major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief said, a few weeks after President...
US Scrambled to Urge Putin Not to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine, Woodward Book Says Months into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the United States had intelligence pointing to “highly sensitive, credible conversations...
Trump Insists Russia's War Should End. But He Won't Say If He Wants Ukraine to Win Former President Donald Trump spoke heatedly in the presidential debate about wanting Russia's war in Ukraine to be over —...
Army ROTC Programs at Dozens of Campuses Are Being Shut Down or Reorganized The Army is undertaking a major shake-up of its Reserve Officers' Training Corps footprint, shutting down or reorganizing...
Afghan Ally Who Was Detained by ICE Now Facing Fast-Tracked Deportation Sayed Naser Noori, whose legal team has provided reporters with paperwork confirming he worked with the military as an...
New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked Out The Army is preparing to roll out a new policy that could lead to soldiers diagnosed with a chronic skin condition that...
After Offer of Back Pay, Only 13 COVID Vaccine Refusers Returned to Military Service Months after the Pentagon rolled out a policy aimed at wooing back service members booted from the military over the COVID-19...
LA Army Veteran with Purple Heart Self-Deports to South Korea Under Threat of Deportation An Army veteran who was awarded a Purple Heart self-deported to South Korea as he was threatened with being detained and...
![Turkmenistan International Forum](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2024-10/ApNewsroom_Turkmenistan_International_Forum_48976.jpg?itok=k-c7L8DM "Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian pose for a photo during their meeting on the sidelines of the International Forum "The Interconnection of Times and Civilizations – the basis of peace and development" dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Turkmen poet and thinker Magtymguly Fragi in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Alexander Shcherbak, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)")
