Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he hoped to see French-supplied warplanes in Ukrainian skies soon after President Emmanuel Macron said France planned to provide it Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets. Zelenskiy has long expressed his frustration at how long Western allies are taking to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine in its war against Russian invasion forces. …
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The U.S. military-built pier designed to carry badly needed aid into Gaza by boat has been reconnected to the beach in the besieged territory after it broke apart in storms and rough seas, and food and other supplies will begin to flow soon, U.S. Central Command announced Friday. The section that connects to the beach in Gaza, the causeway, was …
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President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty. The recent actions by the West will further undermine international security …
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Spain became on Thursday the first European country to ask a United Nations court for permission to join South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. South Africa filed its case with the International Court of Justice late last year. It alleged that Israel was breaching the genocide convention in its military assault that has laid waste to large …
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“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!” So began Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1944 “Order of the Day” memorandum, delivered on June 5, 1944, the night before the momentous D-Day landings in Normandy, France, during World War II. Copies of the letter — meticulously drafted by Eisenhower himself, beginning in February of that year, according to the National …
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An Israeli strike Thursday morning took out Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists hiding at a United Nations school for displaced Palestinians in central Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) say, while local officials say that the strike killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and children. Israel said it was targeting a Hamas compound inside the school containing 20 …
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The American paratroopers who dropped from the sky into Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, appeared sent from heaven. In the eyes of the people looking up from the ground of occupied France on D-Day, the climactic event of World War II, they were indeed saviors. “For me, when they landed, they were like heroes in a movie,” Paul Renaud, …
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Columbia University reached a settlement with a Jewish student on Tuesday, resulting in the Ivy League school’s agreement to take additional steps to make its students feel safe on campus. The anonymous student alleged harassment and intimidation “from an extreme element within the on-campus Gaza war protests had forced Jewish (and other) students off Columbia’s campus,” the student’s legal team …
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The heroes of D-Day won a spiritual victory when they selflessly crawled from the ocean and fell from the sky into Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944 — 80 years ago this week. Their triumph spread almost instantly across the occupied nations of Europe on D-Day, even as military success was still far from certain. Evidence of the spiritual impact …
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Israel believes that more than a third of the remaining Gaza hostages are dead, a government tally showed on Tuesday, as the United States sought to advance their recovery under a proposal to wind down the war with Hamas. Of about 250 people dragged into the Gaza Strip by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen during the Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that sparked …
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