The Lebanese army has called on Israel to engage in military coordination rather than carrying out attacks after Israeli forces opened fire on Lebanese army personnel stationed in southern Lebanon earlier on Tuesday.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and GOP leaders depart after meeting with reporters as he tries to advance a spending package for the Iran war, farm aid and President Donald Trump’s push for strict new voter ID requirements, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Israeli officials believe US President Donald Trump is preparing to significantly escalate the American military campaign against Iran, according to two Israeli officials.
Fliers hoping the recent dip in petrol prices would lead to discounted tickets to Europe are likely to be disappointed after jet fuel costs spiked harder than other fuels at the start of the war and have stayed more elevated.
As global crises push nations to rearm with advanced military technologies, Dun & Bradstreet’s Duns 100 index has published Israel’s first comprehensive ranking of defense-industry companies, mapping 60 firms across the country’s expanding defense-tech ecosystem.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during a meeting with Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the Pentagon Tuesday, July 14, 2026, in Washington. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)
Gaza’s civil defence agency said that multiple Israeli strikes on several areas across Gaza have killed 12 Palestinians, including four children, on Tuesday.
LONDON — Britain, Japan and Italy are bringing Canada in on their project to field a sixth-generation fighter jet by 2035, defense ministers from the nations announced jointly on Tuesday.
MANILA, Philippines — On Tuesday (July 22), the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) formally welcomed its 61st AFP chief of staff, Gen. Antonio Nafarrete from the Philippine Army having succeeded Gen. Romeo S. Brawner Jr. in a change of command ceremony at Camp Aguinaldo.
The Iranian army said on Tuesday that it had shot down a one-way attack drone flying over the northwest of the country, according to Iran’s Tasnim news agency.
Civilians in Ecuador faced attacks and abuses as part of a joint US-Ecuador military campaign meant to target organised crime in the country, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Two unusual media appearances involving Saudi Arabia and Israel have revived questions about whether the countries are cautiously reopening channels as Iranian attacks place growing pressure on Gulf security.
On March 26, the IDF said that naval intelligence had assisted with assassinating Iranian Naval Chief Alireza Tangsiri in the port city of Bandar Abbas, with eliminating key Iranian naval cruise missile production sites, and Iranian sites related to submarines and other underwater threats.
OpenAI and Anthropic increased their federal lobbying spending to record levels in the second quarter of 2026 as the artificial intelligence industry poured millions into influencing Washington ahead of the midterm elections and ahead of their highly anticipated IPOs.
LT. Gen. Antonio Nafarrete on Tuesday assumed command as chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), while Lt. Gen. Donald Gumiran was named the new commanding general of the Philippine Army following the retirement of Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr.
FOR a brief period of time, there was hope that a tentative easing of tensions in the Persian Gulf would lead in the direction of the end of the global energy crisis caused by the Israeli-US war against Iran. In the past week, however, that hope has unraveled in the face of a volatile, multi-front disruption to the …
SEOUL — North Korea reaffirmed its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine as the nations’ foreign ministers met in Moscow, Pyongyang’s state media reported Tuesday, increasing speculation Kim Jong Un may soon visit the Kremlin.
TEHRAN - Iran targeted US radar and air defense installations in the Gulf on Tuesday, warning Washington of “more decisive and powerful” attacks to come as the conflict threatened to widen with a blockade of Saudi ports by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
TOKYO — Chinese and Russian naval forces conducted a joint live-firing exercise using machine guns within Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), a sign of their deepening military cooperation, Tokyo said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters in the White House on Tuesday, Trump claimed that the Iranians “want to meet desperately to try and end [the war] because they’re getting decimated”, adding that “until they’re ready to meet in a meaningful way, we have no interest”.
From left foreground, Michigan state Rep. Donavan McKinney, D-Detroit, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain, and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. join hands together foll…
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held a meeting on Tuesday with Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni in which he called for restraint from all warring sides amid escalating regional tensions in the US war on Iran.
Outgoing Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov speaks during a briefing to journalists in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)
The defense panel for Vice President Sara Duterte said Tuesday it has yet to decide whether to call National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag as its own witness after he told the Senate impeachment court he would also be willing to testify for the defense if requested.
Without any public announcement, the IDF has been building a large sand-wall barrier separating the 50-70% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the areas controlled by Hamas, the military confirmed on Tuesday.
Last week, Lebanese and Israeli representatives met in Rome to discuss implementation of an important dimension of their recent agreement signed in Washington. The sides examined so-called pilot zones – areas in which the Lebanese army would be posted after an Israeli withdrawal. For now, they remain apart, but Leba…
A new video by the US defense company Anduril has shown an interesting and exciting new possibility for unmanned aerial warfare and the concept of manned-unmanned teaming in war. The system is called Thunder, and the company calls it an “autonomous attack rotorcraft specifically designed to multiply the combat power…
There appears to be a disconnect between what Beirut, Washington, and Jerusalem expect from the deployment of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in proposed pilot zones in southern Lebanon. On paper, all three sides appear to support an increased role for the Lebanese army. However, they seem to have very different ide…