The United States unveiled a $345 million military aid package for Taiwan on Friday, in a move certain to anger China at a time of fraught relations between Washington and Beijing. A statement from the White House announced the package of “defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training, […]
A second Russian aircraft flew “dangerously close” to a U.S. drone over Syria this week, just days after another Russian jet damaged another U.S. drone above the war-torn country, the White House said on Wednesday. “We have seen the early reports of a second Russian fighter aircraft this week, flying dangerously close to our drone […]
An attempted coup was under way Wednesday in the fragile state of Niger, where members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, triggering a standoff with the army, sources said. The head of the West African bloc ECOWAS said Benin President Patrice Talon was heading to Niger on a mediation bid after the region […]