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Baghdad, Iraq, March 20, 2003 – At 5:34 AM, the United States, joined by British, Australian, and Polish forces, launched the “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq, opening one of the deadliest military engagements of the 21st century. The war would define then-President George W. Bush’s legacy and change the …

Saudi Arabia has reportedly invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for an official state visit after the two sides agreed to restore ties in a peace deal brokered by China.  Per the BBC, the invitation came in a letter from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, but that has yet to be confirmed …

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called on his country to be ready to launch a nuclear attack to deter war as he accused the U.S. and South Korea of carrying out military drills with American nuclear assets, according to state media.  Kim’s remarks, carried on state media KCNA, …

The general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Xi Jinping, is slated to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday, just days after the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted the Russian strongman for war crimes. Xi’s visit is the latest sign of Beijing’s emboldened diplomatic ambitions, and it …

Residents in a small Australian town are holding their noses at the stench of millions of dead fish that have washed up in recent weeks, clogging a major river.  Residents of the Outback town of Menindee in New South Wales have complained of a terrible smell from the dead fish. …

A Methodist Bible college in the U.K. fired a Christian theologian and threatened to report him as a terrorist because of his tweets in opposition to homosexuality, his attorneys claimed. Dr. Aaron Edwards, who taught theology at Cliff College in Derbyshire, England, was dismissed from the school after being accused …

The World Health Organization (WHO) took aim at Chinese officials for withholding information that could shed light on the origin of COVID-19. “These data could have — and should have — been shared three years ago,” WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday, according to a report from …

Nearly 800,000 people signed up to join the North Korean military in a single day, the country’s state-run media claimed Saturday. The North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun says 800,000 students and workers signed up to fight the U.S. on Friday, just one day after North Korea fired a ballistic missile …

JERUSALEM—Two of the world’s most authoritarian leaders – Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, who are responsible for the 21st century’s bloodiest wars – met in the Kremlin Thursday to discuss an expansion of Moscow’s military presence in Syria.  The pact between two of America’s top foes raises new questions …

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a captured Ukrainian city on Sunday for the first time since invading the country last year. Putin made an unannounced trip to the coastal city of Mariupol, a city Russian forces reduced to near ruins with artillery fire earlier in the invasion. Footage shows Putin …