Russia’s Defense Ministry released a photo showing defense officials from Russia, Turkey, Syria and Iran at a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday.Credit…Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry, via AFP — Getty Images With Ukraine’s allies seeking to shore up unity against Russia’s aggression, Moscow carried out its own diplomatic initiatives on Tuesday, gathering top defense officials from […]
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Live Updates: U.S. Evacuates Embassy in Sudan
After starting as a camel trader who led a feared militia accused of atrocities in Darfur, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan has steadily amassed influence and riches in Sudan over the past two decades as he rose toward the pinnacle of power. Even when his one-time patron, the autocratic ruler President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was ousted […]
Russia-Ukraine War News Live Updates: U.S. Sends More Aid
MUSKO NAVAL BASE, Sweden — With Finland now safely in the arms of NATO, the Biden administration turned its attention on Wednesday to the famously (and formerly) neutral Sweden, as Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said he hoped that objections to the country’s NATO accession would be ironed out by midsummer. Turkey and Hungary, […]
Sudan Live Updates: At Least 97 Dead and Hundreds Injured in Fighting
After starting as a camel trader who led a feared militia accused of atrocities in Darfur, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan has steadily amassed influence and riches in Sudan over the past two decades as he rose toward the pinnacle of power. Even when his one-time patron, the autocratic ruler President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was ousted […]
Killing on Live TV Renews Alarm About India’s Slide Toward Extrajudicial Violence
When the police in India’s largest state put a notorious mobster-politician’s associates in their sights, they unleashed a take-no-prisoners campaign that at times mirrored the brutality of their underworld targets, who had been implicated in a brazen murder. In three separate raids, officers in the state of Uttar Pradesh shot dead four of those associates, […]
Fighting Intensifies as Generals Battle For Control of Sudan : Live Updates
Before rival factions of the army began clashing, the people of Sudan were already facing multiple crises: rising inflation, escalating unemployment levels and mounting hunger. And then on Saturday, they woke up to heavy gunfire and explosions as the army battled with a large paramilitary force in areas across the capital, Khartoum, and other cities. […]
Deadly Fighting Erupts in Sudan’s Capital: Live Updates
The fighting that erupted on Saturday in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, was the culmination of months of rising tensions between two military leaders who only 18 months ago came together to seize power in a military coup. The gunfire, explosions and chaotic scenes across the capital dashed the once heady hopes stirred by the […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Leaked U.S. intelligence documents indicate that Ecuador’s right-wing government in recent months considered sending Soviet-designed MI-17 helicopters to Ukraine, a move supported by the United States. Ecuador would have been the first Latin American country to send weapons to Kyiv, according to the documents. It was not clear from the leaked documents whether Ecuador followed […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday. He was among a group of bipartisan senators visiting.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Ahead of an expected spring counteroffensive, Ukraine has intensified its diplomatic push this week for aid, asking allies for more support to repel invading Russian forces and […]
Russia-Ukraine War News: Live Updates
KYIV — Almost 100 special forces from five Western nations were in Ukraine in February, according to one of the classified Pentagon documents that was leaked online in recent days. Although U.S. and European officials have said in the past that a few dozen commandos from some NATO countries were working inside Ukraine last year, […]