Ukraine's Long-Range Strikes Cripple Crimean Supply Lines The top story today is Ukraine's increasingly successful long-range strike campaign against Russian-occupied Crimea. In recent weeks, strikes have targeted road and railway bridges around the peninsula, key logistical nodes (fuel, ammunition, and other supplies), and
Trump reportedly issued a direct threat to Iranian officials as US-Iran talks opened in Switzerland, warning: “You close the Strait and you won’t have a country.” He reportedly added: “You won’t even make it back to your f**king country.” The warning came as Washington disputed Iran’
Russia is not out-fighting Ukraine in the skies so much as out-producing it. Moscow kept its missile factories; Ukraine's were dismantled after the Cold War. Now, as the ground war stalls, the contest is shifting to who can both build and stop ballistic missiles.
Keir Starmer is on the brink of resignation, clearing a path for Andy Burnham. But the man Labour MPs see as a better communicator than Starmer arrives carrying a record his own former colleagues describe as a people-pleaser who couldn't say no, and a quiet scramble to reassure the gilt markets.
Moscow captured barely a seventh of the ground this spring that it took a year ago. The war's centre of gravity has shifted from the trench line to the supply line and Ukraine's mid-range drone campaign is now squeezing the corridor that keeps Russia's southern front alive.
Tehran has reclosed the Strait of Hormuz and tied it to the fighting in Lebanon, turning a fragile US ceasefire into a pressure machine. As US and Iranian delegations sit down in Switzerland, the real question is who is setting its terms.
JD Vance has warned Israel’s government to stop attacking Donald Trump’s preliminary deal with Iran, in a sharp public rebuke that exposes growing tension between Washington and Tel Aviv. The US vice-president said criticism from members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet had gone too far, particularly after
Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election in a result that could trigger a major new phase of turmoil inside the Labour Party. The Greater Manchester mayor secured a decisive victory in the north-west seat, taking 24,937 votes and defeating Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon, who came
Ukrainian forces have now struck and damaged the last remaining key bridge leading out of Crimea the Armyansk Bridge marking a significant milestone in their ongoing campaign to sever Russian supply lines to the peninsula. A Russian logistical convoy crossing the bridge at the time of the strike was severely
U.S. Central Command says it has completed additional self-defense strikes on Iran, targeting military surveillance, communications, and air-defense sites across the country. CENTCOM said Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy assets used precision munitions against targets it claimed threatened U.S. forces and commercial shipping in regional
The fragile calm between Washington and Tehran shattered on Wednesday night. At 5.15pm ET, US forces launched a fresh wave of strikes against multiple targets in Iran amounting to the most serious escalation since the two countries agreed a ceasefire in April. By early Thursday, Iranian military command had
Cuba’s economic collapse is no longer just a story of sanctions or shortages. At the centre of the crisis is GAESA, the military-run conglomerate that controls much of the island’s hard currency economy and the one structure Havana appears least willing to reform.
Russian forces have launched a major naval exercise north of Kaliningrad, deploying multiple warships and more than ten aircraft to drill bombing runs, defensive manoeuvres and coordinated fleet operations. The exercise is widely read as a direct signal from the Kremlin a response to large-scale NATO drills currently underway
NATO has scrambled maritime patrol aircraft, early warning platforms and refuelling tankers to monitor Russian naval movements in the North Sea, with activity traced to submarine bases near Murmansk. Dutch, American, British and French aircraft were observed operating today, including Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, Boeing E-3A
British officials and police services are bracing for potential civil unrest across multiple locations in England and Northern Ireland, following the fallout from a violent knife attack in Belfast and a string of controversial incidents in recent weeks. The immediate trigger came late on Monday night. Shortly after 10:30pm
US official has told F14 that Israeli and Iranian action today with missile strikes in Lebanon and now Israel caught Washington off guard, US forces around the Middle East have been put on high alert with troops entering bunkers and airforce jets and refuelling tankers being put airborne in preparation
