Construction of the first of twelve new mine countermeasures vessels has really started at the Piriou shipyard in Concarneau, France. On Tuesday, November 30, the keel was laid in the presence of officials from the Belgian, Dutch and French navies. At the same time, the names of the new ships were r…

RIGA — NATO foreign ministers gathered in the Latvian capital, Riga, on Tuesday at the start of a two-day meeting, with troubles to the alliance’s east on Russia’s border with Ukraine and in Belarus topping the agenda.

The 30-nation alliance remains uncertain of Moscow’s aims on Ukraine’s borde…

ONBOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT — The United States is reaching out to allies in response to Russia’s military build-up along its border with Ukraine.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke by phone with Polish Minister of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak Tuesday to discuss what the Pentagon h…

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Monday ordered a new high-level investigation into a U.S. airstrike in Syria in 2019 that killed dozens of women and children, the Pentagon said.

The investigation by Gen. Michael X. Garrett, the four-star head of the Army’s Forces Command, will examine th…

A detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet (PF) consisting of the corvette Gremyashchy and submarines of Project 636.3 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Volkhov arrived at the main base of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok for the first time.

The detachment completed the inter-fleet transition from the…

BRUSSELS — Russian mercenaries have taken command of at least one EU-trained battalion in the Central African Republic (CAR) to help “predate” the mineral-rich country, according to a leaked report.

“Today, most deployed FACA units are operating under direct command or supervision by WG mercena…