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Putin Has Let North Korea Turn the Ukraine War Into a Giant ‘Dangerous Missile Lab’

Johnson details the 'ballistic missile lab': Russian engineers refined North Korea's KN-23 through live combat launches — CEP shrinking from 0.6-1.9 miles in December...

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‘Iran Has No Standing to Pretend to Be a Victim’: Kyiv’s Answer to Tehran’s Threats Over the Caspian Strike

After Ukrainian drones struck an Iranian-linked vessel and a Russian warship over 500 miles away in the Caspian, Iran's FM called Zelensky a 'freeloader,'...

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U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Field Artillery Brigade, fire a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) during their Table 15 qualification on Fort Bragg, North Carolina, March 30, 2026. Table 15 is a mandatory U.S. Army training and certification exercise for field artillery batteries that tests their ability to integrate artillery fires into a realistic tactical scenario. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Austin Robertson)

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North Korea Just Might Send Thousands of Fresh Soldiers to Fight in Ukraine in a Major Escalation

Brandon Weichert ties Zelensky's unverified claim — Russia seeking 30,000 more North Korean troops, atop roughly 14,000 deployed now — to Gen. Xavier Brunson's...

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U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) steams in the Indian Ocean, July 2, 2026. Mustin is forward-deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy Dimal)

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Donald Trump Has Two Ways to Beat Iran and No Idea Which One Works

Professor Andrew Latham reads the blockade numbers: non-Iranian Hormuz transits collapsed to a fraction of last year's while Iran-linked traffic barely dipped, moving inside...

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Zelensky Says Russia May Draft Up to Half a Million More Troops, and Only After September’s Parliamentary Elections

Zelensky says Ukrainian intelligence expects Russia to draft up to half a million additional troops after September's parliamentary elections. The Kremlin has said nothing...

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KOROR, Palau — A Patriot Advanced Capability 2 Interceptor missile is fired from an M903 Patriot Launching Station assigned to Battery D, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment during the patriot live fire portion of Exercise Tenacious Archer 25 on Aug. 21, 2025. Exercise Tenacious Archer 25 is a training event designed to build interoperability, capacity, and relationships that deter aggression and promote peace through strength. The exercise sharpens the brigade’s ability to operate across multiple domains, reinforcing U.S. Army Pacific’s commitment to regional security and stability.(U.S. Army photo by Capt. Frank Spatt) KOROR, Palau — A Patriot Advanced Capability 2 Interceptor missile is fired from an M903 Patriot Launching Station assigned to Battery D, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment during the patriot live fire portion of Exercise Tenacious Archer 25 on Aug. 21, 2025. Exercise Tenacious Archer 25 is a training event designed to build interoperability, capacity, and relationships that deter aggression and promote peace through strength. The exercise sharpens the brigade’s ability to operate across multiple domains, reinforcing U.S. Army Pacific’s commitment to regional security and stability.(U.S. Army photo by Capt. Frank Spatt)

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Trump Just Got Handed a New Problem: The Missiles He Spent on Iran Are the Very Ones the Pacific Was Counting On

A new CSIS analysis puts American air defense stocks below a thousand missiles, down from more than two thousand before the war with Iran....

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‘We Won’t Gain Anything by Creating a New Front’: How Tehran’s Own Analysts Talked It Out of Attacking Ukraine

Ukraine's armed forces spent a day braced for an Iranian ballistic missile strike after Kyiv hit an Iranian cargo ship in the Caspian, according...

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Russian Refining Has Fallen to Its Lowest Level Since 2005, According to Satellite-Based Estimates From EA Analytics

Russian refining has dropped to its lowest recorded level since 2005, according to EA Analytics, which estimates output from satellite monitoring and cargo tracking...

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Russia Might Have a Sneaky Plan to Win the Ukraine War: Draft 500,000 Fresh Soldiers to Turn the Tide

Zelensky says Russia could draft between three hundred thousand and half a million troops after September's elections. A Russian opposition outlet reports some would...

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Russia Is Now Building More Ballistic Missiles Every Month Than America Is Building the Missiles Meant to Stop Them

Zelensky asked Washington for three hundred PAC-3 missiles before winter, and Trump offered a license to build them in Ukraine instead. Analysts say the...

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President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak privately in the Vermeil Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

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Trump’s Own Allies Call the Netanyahu Meeting a Disaster for America First — Republicans Say Israel and America Want the Same Thing in Iran

Trump and Netanyahu met at the White House for roughly ninety minutes, their first face-to-face talks since the campaign against Iran began five months...

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The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, March 19, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Adkins) The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, March 19, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Adkins)

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The Real Reason America Paused Its Iran War: It’s Running Out of Missiles to Defend Itself

America's stockpile of Patriot interceptors has fallen to roughly a third of its prewar level, and the New York Times reports the shortage helped...

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The Kremlin Has a Problem: Russia Is Now Rationing Gasoline and Importing Fuel From Belarus and India

Russia's fuel crisis is deepening: Altai limits drivers to one fill-up every 24 hours — 30 liters max — plate numbers logged; Novak admits...

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A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific. The SM-3 Block 1B successfully intercepted a target missile that had been launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands in Kauai, Hawaii. Lake Erie detected and tracked the target with its on board AN/SPY-1 radar. The event was the third consecutive successful intercept test of the SM-3 Block IB missile. (U.S. Navy photo/Released)

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Forget the Toll Booth: America Says Iran Is Selling Ships Protection From Dangers It Manufactures Itself

Iran has rejected Oman's proposal to split control of the Strait of Hormuz evenly, demanding instead that the inbound lane sit entirely in Iranian...

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Exercise Artemis Strike is a German-led tactical live fire exercise with live Patriot and Stinger missiles at the NATO Missile Firing Installation in Chania, Greece from Oct. 31-Nov. 09. Over 200 U.S. soldiers and approximately 650 German airmen will be participating in the realistic training within a combined construct, exercise the rigors associated with force projection and educate operators on their air missile defense systems. The 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command will deploy, operate and fire live missiles within a tactical scenario, under Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe operational readiness evaluation criteria. Exercise Artemis Strike is a German-led tactical live fire exercise with live Patriot and Stinger missiles at the NATO Missile Firing Installation in Chania, Greece from Oct. 31-Nov. 09. Over 200 U.S. soldiers and approximately 650 German airmen will be participating in the realistic training within a combined construct, exercise the rigors associated with force projection and educate operators on their air missile defense systems. The 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command will deploy, operate and fire live missiles within a tactical scenario, under Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe operational readiness evaluation criteria.

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‘Nobody—and I Mean Nobody—Saw It Coming’: How China Quietly Took Hold of the Global Oil Market Without Anyone Noticing

The Atlantic reports that China is the main reason oil prices have not spiked during the war with Iran, after it sharply cut purchases...

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Nick “Laz” Le Tourneau, pilot and commander of the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team, performs an aerial demonstration at Air Dot Show Tour Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 9, 2026. Capt. Le Tourneau showcased the unmatched capabilities of the F-22 by performing a series of combat maneuvers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Bowers) U.S. Air Force Capt. Nick “Laz” Le Tourneau, pilot and commander of the F-22 Raptor Aerial Demonstration Team, performs an aerial demonstration at Air Dot Show Tour Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 9, 2026. Capt. Le Tourneau showcased the unmatched capabilities of the F-22 by performing a series of combat maneuvers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Mary Bowers)

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‘Gate of Tears’: The Houthis Want to Start Charging Ships to Cross It, and Iran Helped Them Plan the Scheme

Regional sources tell Reuters the Houthis are weighing transit fees on ships crossing the Bab el-Mandeb, a week after declaring an embargo on Saudi...

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North Korea and Russia Are Building Their First-Ever Road Link—and It’s Really a Secret Military Supply Line

North Korea and Russia are finishing their first-ever road bridge, officially economic but believed to be a covert military supply route—trucks are far harder...

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Ukraine’s Next Military Headache: Thousands of Fresh North Korean Troops Ready to Fight for Putin

Zelenskyy says Russia wants another 30,000 North Korean troops, with preparations underway in Voronezh since June — though he offered no sources and the...

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China Has Quietly Accepted a Nuclear North Korea

For years Beijing said it wanted both stability and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Stability always ranked higher, but the second goal was at...

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