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Firefighters in Ukrainian State Emergency Service uniforms hose down burned-out retail kiosks, with shattered glass across the pavement and a destroyed car in the foreground

While Zelensky Collected Air Defence Money in Calgary, Drones and Glide Bombs Tore Through a Pavlohrad Shopping Centre

Russian forces hit a shopping centre in central Pavlohrad at midday on Thursday, at…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 10

Coastal oil refinery complex at dusk, distillation columns and crude storage tanks lit by orange lamps, a dark smoke plume rising from a fire inside the plant, and an oil tanker anchored offshore

Saudi Arabia Moved Its Oil West to Escape Iran. That Put It Inside Houthi Range.

Houthi strikes wounded 73 in Saudi Arabia's south. The Jazan refinery they hit has…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 8

Rescue workers in reflective gear search the rubble of a destroyed house at night under portable floodlights, with drifting smoke, a burned-out garage and a fire truck nearby

Putin Paused Strikes on Kyiv for Three Days While Russia Kept Killing Everywhere Else

Vladimir Putin ordered a 72-hour halt to Russian strikes on Kyiv on Saturday, hours…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 5

The United States Capitol lit against a heavy grey sky at blue hour, reflected in a rain-soaked and completely deserted plaza

Congress Sent the Iran War Bill to the Lame Duck, the One Session Voters Cannot Reach

On Tuesday the House voted 370 to 48 to keep the federal government funded…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 2

A crashed black quadcopter drone lies on wet tarmac in front of a large blue and white heavy-lift cargo aircraft at dusk, with police in high visibility vests and a tracked bomb disposal robot behind it

Four Hours After It Hit the Wing, a Bus Driver Found the Bomb Germany Now Blames on Russia

A drone carrying roughly 800 grams of military explosive struck the wing of a…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 1

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The Pentagon Spent Monday Denying a Strike the President Announced Himself – Does He Even Know it’s AI?

Trump posted an AI video of Kharg Island in flames. The Defense Department had…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

An arid rocky island in hazy Gulf light with a thin column of smoke rising from a damaged structure near its ridge, a laden crude oil tanker transiting the shipping lane behind it and a grey naval warship holding station on the horizon.

The US Bombed Iran Under a Standing Order Trump Issued Five Days Earlier

American forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 30

Firefighters hose down the collapsed, smouldering steel frame of a burned-out warehouse at night while two fire engines stand on a village road beside scorched single-storey houses

Ukraine Opened a Negligence Investigation Into the Warehouse Where 27 of Its Own People Died

A Russian drone hit a warehouse in Myla, near Kyiv, and at least 27…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 29

A US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier under way alone in open ocean at dawn, its flight deck empty of aircraft

The Navy Has Three Weeks to Get Its Story Straight Before the Lincoln Docks in San Diego

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is somewhere between the Middle East and California…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

Firefighters on an extended red aerial ladder work at the gutted upper floors of a nine-storey pale concrete apartment block, its facade blackened and torn open, with debris across wet asphalt and emergency vehicles at a cordon in the grey morning light

Fifteen People Died in Kyiv Because Ukraine’s Patriot Interceptors Still Have Not Been Replaced

Russian ballistic missiles tore the top two floors off a nine-storey apartment block in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

Commuters in a Seoul train station stand watching a large screen showing grey footage of a ballistic missile lifting off over open sea

North Korea Fired 10 Missiles Into Trump’s Diplomatic Opening

Three days after President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to shrink a joint exercise…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

A dark-suited American envoy walks past an empty negotiating table in a marble government reception room

Kushner Got Hamas to Say Yes to a Gaza Plan Netanyahu Has Already Rejected

Jared Kushner spent 90 minutes in Egypt on Sunday persuading Hamas to reaffirm a…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 17

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Firefighters and emergency vehicles at a large purple and white Wildberries distribution warehouse with flames and black smoke pouring from its collapsed roof

600 Drones Hit the Moscow Region. Kyiv’s Real Target Was a Warehouse Company.

A highway gas station price totem at dusk displaying regular gasoline at 4.08 and diesel at 5.43 per gallon, with a pickup truck refueling under the canopy behind it

Record August Gas at $4.08 Is a Refining Story, Not a Crude One

A US presidential Boeing 747 on a wet floodlit ramp with an airport catering truck raised to a cabin door, a man in a dark suit stepping into the container, and empty airstairs at the forward door

Trump Left Air Force One in a Catering Truck and Let the Press Fly On as a Decoy

A small rust-streaked general cargo coaster sails alone through an empty strait at dawn, with an arid mountainous coastline in the background

Three Crew Died on the Tihamah, the Kind of Ship That Cannot Reroute Out of Bab el-Mandeb

Bashar al-Assad in a dark suit at the left of an empty Syrian courtroom, a vacant metal defendant cage standing behind him

Assad Was Sentenced to Death in Absentia, and Atef Najib Was the Only One in the Cage

Soviet-era apartment blocks in Nizhnekamsk with an oil refining and petrochemical complex directly behind them, a flare stack burning orange and dark smoke drifting across a hazy dawn sky

Nizhnekamsk Was Built to Serve the Refinery, and Ukraine’s Deepest Drone Strike Killed 13 There

Firefighters in dark navy uniforms and blue helmets aim a hose at a gutted, still-burning steel warehouse beside freight rail wagons, with scattered wooden pallets and debris across wet asphalt

Russia Killed 17 Around Kyiv Using the One Weapon Ukraine Can No Longer Intercept

Crude oil tankers moving in single file through a narrow sea channel between rocky coastlines at dusk, with a grey naval destroyer in the distance

Trump Called Off a Second Iran Strike for a Deal Iran Has Not Confirmed

Open control cabinet of programmable logic controllers with lit status lights inside a small water treatment plant, a dark control screen and a paper log sheet on the desk, and a town water tower against a dusk sky outside

Trump Blames Minnesota for the Iran-Linked Water Hack. The Flaw Has No Patch.

A wide dark impact crater in a harvested wheat field ringed by scattered metal fragments, with blue and white police tape, two officers, a police van and firefighters beside a fire truck in the background.

Poland Identified the Russian Missile Within Hours, Then Left Article 4 Alone

Five interceptor missile trails rise from a desert airbase at night as two bright intercept flashes detonate high above silhouetted hangars and a radar array.

Iran Fired First This Time, and the Pause Trump Ordered Was Never Written Down

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu seated in armchairs in the Oval Office with US and Israeli flags behind them

Trump Meets Netanyahu at the White House as the Iran Strike Pause Holds

Aerial view of the Strait of Hormuz at dusk with oil tankers on dark waters and distant orange glow on the Iranian coastline

U.S. Stops Bombing Iran After Two Weeks of Strikes as China Brokers New Peace Push

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber flies low over the Persian Gulf at dusk with smoke plumes rising from the Iranian coastline

Trump Says He Is ‘Close’ to Ordering a ‘Massive Attack’ on Iran as 13th Night of Airstrikes Wraps

A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber with swept wings flying at dusk beneath a storm-lit sky

The B-1 Bomber Just Entered the Iran War. Here’s What That Escalation Actually Means

Military honor guard carrying flag-draped transfer cases on the tarmac at Dover Air Force Base at dusk with a C-17 aircraft in the background

Trump Honors Four Fallen Service Members at Dover as Iran War Death Toll Climbs to 17

Diplomatic table split between Saudi Arabian and American flags with a glowing uranium fuel rod assembly at center

Landmark Nuclear Deal With Saudi Arabia That Could Open the Door to Uranium Enrichment

Smoke rises from a U.S. military base in the Middle East at dusk with the American flag silhouetted against an orange sky

The Pentagon Just Admitted Nearly 100 Troops Were Injured in Iran, and Its Own Tracking System Showed Zero