The United States is sending a third aircraft carrier strike group toward the Middle East along with thousands of additional Marines and sailors, potentially creating one of the largest concentrations of American naval power in the region since the Iraq War.

Saudi Arabia’s military coalition accused Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on Thursday of carrying out a drone attack on a power station in Medina that supplies electricity to one of Islam’s holiest sites, marking another dangerous escalation around the kingdom’s sacred cities.

British counterterrorism police have arrested a 27-year-old dual British-Iranian national as investigators widen their probe into a suspected terrorist plot involving RAF Fairford, the strategically important British air base used by U.S. forces during military operations against Iran.

Russia has warned NATO that it could use nuclear weapons if the Western military alliance tried to cut off Kaliningrad, a heavily militarized Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea, as fighting continued in Ukraine killing and injuring numerous people.

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged deadly aerial attacks, killing and injuring numerous people, as energy infrastructure increasingly becomes a target with winter approaching. The latest strikes also affected neighboring countries amid new Russian nuclear threats against the NATO military alliance.

Albania’s prime minister has warned protesters that the fate of a massive tourism project linked to the family of U.S. President Donald J. Trump will be determined by an environmental impact assessment, not by “streets and ideology.”

Two former ministers who served under Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orbán remained in custody Wednesday as authorities intensified investigations into alleged corruption involving billions of forints, while the new government prepared a wealth tax targeting some of the country’s richest people.

There was fresh hope for a hospitalized 87-year-old Spanish woman on Wednesday as authorities said she would be allowed to return home following massive protests over her eviction in Madrid last week.

British counterterrorism authorities have released on bail five men arrested near RAF Fairford on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act, even as investigators continue examining whether the incident involved a foreign state.

A political storm is looming over Serbia after President Aleksandar Vučić resigned amid massive protests over alleged corruption and concerns about pressure on independent media and political opponents.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that removing Iran’s ruling regime has become Israel’s “central mission,” telling senior military officials that the goal is now “within reach” as Tehran faces mounting pressure from Israel, the United States, and regional fallout from its terror network.

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday it had completed clearing a strategic Hezbollah underground facility beneath the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon and was preparing the tunnel complex for demolition.

President Donald Trump sought to reassure Israel on Wednesday as renewed fighting between the United States and Iran raised fears of a broader regional escalation, saying Israel “should not worry” and predicting the conflict with Tehran would not last much longer.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Greece to halt the militarization of Aegean islands after Athens signed a major defense agreement with Israel, a move that could reshape the military balance in the eastern Mediterranean.

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it has dismantled more than 26 kilometers, or about 16 miles, of underground terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire agreement with Hamas went into effect last October.

Israeli special forces captured a senior Hamas internal security chief Tuesday during a rare daylight raid in Gaza City, marking one of Israel’s most significant intelligence operations inside the enclave in recent months.

Israel and Greece have signed a landmark defense agreement worth roughly €3 billion, or about $3.5 billion, under which Israel will help build a multi-layered air defense system for Greece known as “Achilles Shield.”

A federal judge on Friday extended a block preventing the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing new mail-ballot requirements ordered by President Donald Trump, escalating a legal battle over election procedures less than two months before the November midterms.

U.S. lawmakers are raising fresh concerns that China, Russia and other American adversaries could use electromagnetic pulse weapons to cripple the nation’s electrical grid and critical infrastructure, potentially plunging large portions of the country into darkness.

The Pentagon is turning to the Cold War-era Defense Production Act to accelerate missile manufacturing and rebuild U.S. weapons stockpiles strained by months of combat operations and years of military assistance to American allies, according to a Washington Times exclusive.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its latest executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, marking another legal setback in President Donald Trump’s effort to redefine who qualifies as an American citizen at birth.

Elon Musk told a G20 innovation summit that humanoid robots could become one of the most disruptive forces in the global economy, predicting that at least 1 billion such machines may be operating within the next 10 years.

President Donald Trump is preparing an intensive final-month campaign push aimed at helping Republicans win roughly 35 competitive races that could determine control of Congress in the November midterm elections.

House Republicans forced Democrats into a politically charged vote Wednesday on a proposed constitutional amendment that would permanently limit the U.S. Supreme Court to nine justices, a direct response to renewed progressive calls to expand the court.

Kevin Rideout, an American missionary pilot kidnapped by suspected Islamist militants in Niger’s capital, Niamey, in October last year, has been released and is in U.S. custody, U.S. President Donald J. Trump confirmed Friday.

Concerns are mounting over increasing violence against Christians and churches across Europe after dozens of churches, religious symbols and worshipers were targeted in July, including cases involving bodily waste, arson and the stabbing of a woman praying in an Irish Catholic church.

An elderly Christian leader has been detained in India for allegedly offending the religious sentiments of the Asian nation’s Hindu majority on social media.

Members of Pakistan’s Christian minority were reeling Friday after numerous violent incidents over faith and what they say were false allegations of blasphemy against Islam, the majority religion in the Asian nation.

The Trump administration has announced nearly $2 billion in health and humanitarian assistance for faith-based organizations, placing several major Christian ministries at the center of a reshaped U.S. foreign-aid strategy following sweeping cuts to USAID programs.

Wim de Goeij, a former Jehovah’s Witness who became a prominent Dutch publisher of Bible-teaching materials and outspoken critic of the Watch Tower Society, has died. He was 64.

A Christian motorist in Britain is considering legal action after his insurer reportedly told him that his car insurance could not continue unless he removed handmade “Jesus Loves You” messages from his vehicle.