Police in Turkey have arrested a woman suspected of causing a devastating explosion Sunday in Istanbul, officials there said. Although motives remain unclear as of Monday, Ankara accused Syrian Kurdish militants backed by the United States of ordering the attack. “There is much to uncover, but this is a starting …

American forces airdropped a cruise missile from an aircraft for the first time in Europe, as part of a test exercise.  The test occurred inside the Arctic Circle at the remote Andoya Space Defence Range in Norway. It involved a US Air Force MC-130J Hercules Commando aircraft dropping a Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff …

By A.R. Fomenko UKRAINE – Artillery troops in Ukraine opened fire for a sustained barrage against Russian forces – and caught it on video. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence showed an example on Twitter, with battlefield video of rockets being fired at Russian positions. Troops here have been very informative, …

An Iranian teenager sneaks up behind a cleric in the capital, Tehran, and knocks his turban off his head before dashing off. The incident, uploaded on social media, is part of a new tactic employed by anti-government demonstrators in Iran. “It is empowering,” one Iranian college student told Soldier of …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared that Kherson is “ours” after his special forces entered the strategic southern city following the retreat of Russian troops, marking another dramatic battlefield victory in Kyiv’s drive to recapture territory occupied by Russia since the start of its Feb. 24 invasion. The Ukrainian military also …

Russian troops and military forces are launching daily attacks against Ukrainian front line positions in Donetsk, in an area described as one of the hottest in the war. Paratroopers with Ukraine’s 79th Air Assault Brigade say they’re holding positions around the small city of Maryinka. They say Russia has deployed …

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered Russian troops to withdraw from the right bank of the Dnieper River in the partially occupied Kherson region of Ukraine. The move is another retreat amid a number of setbacks for Moscow on battlefields in Ukraine’s east and southeast. Shoigu said at a meeting …

by Mike Eckel, RFE/RL The press statement, put out by a St. Petersburg company called Concord Catering and Management, pulled no punches: The elected head of Russia’s second-largest city is a crook, it suggested. Prosecutors should investigate the “possible fact of the creation by Governor [Aleksandr] Beglov of an organized …

by Jose Campos BRASILIA – In the aftermath of the contentious and razor-thin presidential elections, the message here in Brazil is clear that despite what politicians and judges say, many citizens have cast their vote for who they think has the most power: the Brazilian armed forces. Demonstrators came out …

The U.S. military says it has carried out an airstrike against members of the al-Shabaab extremist group in Somalia. A statement by the U.S. Africa Command on Saturday describes the airstrike as being carried out Thursday in “collective self-defense” and at the request of the Somali National Army near the …