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Russian forces currently hold the upper hand in fighting near the city of Kharkov, Ukraine’s general staff said on Monday. After Russia captured multiple towns and villages over the weekend, some Ukrainian troops blamed their superiors for putting up inadequate defenses. Moscow launched a large-scale offensive on Ukraine’s Kharkov Region …

Russia and its allies have made more progress towards fully capturing the Donbass, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reported on Tuesday. Some 15 communities were recently taken, including Svyatogorsk – the town where Ukrainian forces allegedly torched a wooden church as they retreated last week. Svyatogorsk is located on the …

On September 26, Germans went to the polls to elect their new government. As the results emerged, it became increasingly apparent that the Social Democratic Party (SPD) had narrowly scraped to victory ahead of the Christian Democratic Union. It’s now in a position to form an administration for the first …

For over 25 years, ideas have been mooted in the EU about the creation of a European military force. But American officials have been understandably wary of Europe gaining strategic autonomy. To policymakers in Washington, the word ‘autonomy’ apparently conjures up images of its allies going their own way and …

“Last night in Kabul, the US ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history,” Biden told reporters on Tuesday, almost a day after the last US plane took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.  The retreat from Afghanistan didn’t just mark an end …

“I want to thank our commanders and the men and women serving under them for their execution of the dangerous retrograde from Afghanistan as scheduled – in the early morning hours of August 31, Kabul time – with no further loss of American lives,” Biden said in a statement the …

Asked about President Joe Biden’s August 31 withdrawal deadline during a Tuesday press conference, Psaki said that while the mission “will end based on the achievement of our objectives,” it is currently “on pace” to meet that date. “I would say that this is now on track to be the …

Last Thursday, OnlyFans – a popular online platform that enables people to post racy photos and videos in exchange for a paid subscription – announced that, starting on October 1, it would be banning any posting containing “sexually explicit conduct.”   Blaming the move on pressure from banks, a spokesperson told …

Biden came back to the White House from the presidential retreat at Camp David on Monday, for a special televised address about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan that has since resulted in total collapse of the government in Kabul and a Taliban takeover. He opened up with a fiery defense …

That’s according to Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, who spoke on Friday following a week of war games. “These drills have great significance,” Wei said. “These are the first joint drills organized in China since the outbreak of the epidemic. And these are the first-ever Chinese operational and strategic maneuvers …