By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, April 27 (Reuters) - Global military spending rose 2.9% in 2025 despite a 7.5% decline in the United States as President Donald Trump halted new financial military aid to Ukraine, a report by a conflict think-tank showed on Monday. Expenditure
Global military spending reached nearly $2.9 trillion in 2025, marking an 11th consecutive year of growth, researchers said Monday, as insecurity and rearmament fuelled defence budgets. The three top spenders -- the United States, China and Russia -- spent a combined total of
A Syrian court conducted the first hearing Sunday in the trial of ousted ruler Bashar al-Assad and senior figures from his government, one of whom appeared in person. Assad and his brother Maher have fled Syria and will be tried in absentia, but one of their relatives, former
April 26 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed 14 people and wounded 37 on Sunday, Lebanon's health ministry said, as the Israeli military warned residents to leave seven towns beyond the "buffer zone" it occupied before a ceasefire that has failed to fully halt hostilities.
Hezbollah said it 'continued targeting of Israeli enemy positions on our occupied land and shelling enemy settlements in northern occupied Palestine,' saying the strikes are a legitimate response to Israel's 'persistent violations of the cease-fire'
Axios reported that the deployment marked the first time Israel sent an Iron Dome battery abroad, resulting in the interception of dozens of Iranian missiles amid heavy attacks on the Gulf states
WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said in an interview on Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing" on Sunday that Iran can reach out to the United Stated if it wants to negotiate an end to the war between the two countries. (Reporting by Katharine Jackson and Ryan
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Yair Lapid announced Sunday they will run on a joint list in this year's elections, in a move aimed at unseating incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu. "I am pleased to announce that tonight, together with my friend
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM, April 26 (Reuters) - Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most formidable political rivals said on Sunday they were joining forces in a bid to oust his coalition government in the upcoming election expected later this year. The former
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/WEST BANK, April 26 (Reuters) - Loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas won most races in Palestinian municipal elections, election officials said on Sunday, in a vote that for the first time in nearly two decades included a city in the
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the urgent need to get shipping moving again in the Strait of Hormuz during a call on Sunday, a Downing Street spokesperson said. "The leaders discussed the urgent need to
The latest developments in the Middle East war: - Israeli soldier killed - The Israeli army said one of its troops was killed "during combat" in south Lebanon, where a ceasefire has been in place since mid-April. Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have accused each other of
ROME, April 26 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Sunday described those who wage wars and appropriate the earth's resources as thieves who rob the world of a peaceful future, issuing a warning about the use of nuclear power on the anniversary of the Chornobyl reactor accident. Ukraine is
JERUSALEM, April 26 (Reuters) - Israel's president said on Sunday that he will consider Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pardon request in his long-running corruption trial only after efforts to reach a plea deal are exhausted, signalling no decision will come soon.
Negotiations were meant to follow prior talks between the U.S. and Iran, but Iranian officials have questioned how they can trust the U.S. after its forces started blockading Iranian ports in response to Iran's grip on the Strait of Hormuz
April 26 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi held talks in Oman on Sunday and discussed security in the Strait of Hormuz and broader Gulf waters and diplomatic efforts to end the Iran-U.S. conflict, according to an Iranian foreign ministry statement. In talks in
Trump hopes Iran will reconsider demands for talks after the U.S. and Israel demonstrate their destructive capabilities as the regime shows signs of fracturing • Netanyahu continues to entrench false narratives about his responsibility for Oct. 7., this time, with his cancer
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - An Egyptian family which was released from more than 10 months of immigration detention this week following court orders was taken into custody again by federal authorities on Saturday, lawyers said. Hayam El Gamal and her five
Yusra Qwaider is 97 years old, bedridden and helpless: within days, bulldozers from the Jerusalem municipality will come to tear down the home she has lived in for over 50 years. If the demolition in the Al-Bustan neighbourhood goes ahead, it will be the third time she has lost
By Saad Sayeed, Ariba Shahid and Steve Holland ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - Hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran receded as a new week began, with talks aimed at ending the two-month conflict at a standstill and both Tehran and