Drone that killed US troops in attack slipped past defenses because there was confusion on whether or not it was American: reports

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Satellite view of the US military outpost known as Tower 22 in Jordan on Oct. 12, 2023 in this handout image.
Satellite view of the US military outpost known as Tower 22 in Jordan on Oct. 12, 2023 in this handout image.

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Iran may not have been seeking to trigger a regional war with the drone strike that killed 3 US troops, say experts

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A soldier stands guard at the Hashed al-shaabi forces' headquarters in Baghdad on January 25, 2024.

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Video shows Ukraine taking out the front and back vehicles of a Russian armored convoy, trapping the others

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Two aerial view stills from video shared by Ukraine's 30th mechanized brigade on December 28, 2023. Each shows explosions rocking a different Russian armored vehicle at opposite ends of a convoy through a flat, grey-toned rural area.
Two aerial view stills show action near Kupiansk in footage posted by Ukrainian forces.

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Russia is replacing its destroyed tanks at a rate of 100 a month, UK intel says

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Cars pass by destroyed Russian tanks beside a road
Cars pass by destroyed Russian tanks close to Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2022.

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Ukrainian naval commander said his navy would gladly take charge of 2 British warships set to be retired

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British Navy frigate HMS Westminster in Riga, Latvia, in May 2019. The vessel is one of two that the UK's navy is reportedly decommissioning.

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Ukraine losing Western support makes the US 'more vulnerable' because China is watching the war closely, NATO chief says

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Xi Jinping and Jens Stoltenberg are seen in separate conferences.
Jens Stoltenberg said China is closely watching how well Putin can achieve his goals in Ukraine.

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A retired admiral says the US needs to start building boats fast because China's going to outpace the US Navy in no time

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Soldiers line up on the deck in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang Province.
"You don't have to be a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician to realize the number of Chinese ships is going to continue to outpace us," said retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis.

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Former NATO commander says the Ukraine war could end just like the Korean War, with Russia clinging on to parts of Ukrainian land

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A Ukrainian soldier prepares a mortar before shooting a target in the direction of Bakhmut, where clashes between Russia and Ukraine continue to take place, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on January 26, 2024.
"Ultimately, this will end like the Korean War, meaning that Russia will probably still have control of some portion of Ukraine, Crimea, the land bridge to Russia," former NATO supreme allied commander James Stavridis said in a radio interview.

China surrounding Taiwan would be enough to drag the US into military conflict, said the majority of 52 US experts

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Officers and soldiers are conducting search training in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, on January 5, 2024.
Officers and soldiers are conducting search training in Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, on January 5, 2024.

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Biden considers halting some US military aid to force Israel to scale back its offensive in Gaza

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Protesters denounce the Biden administration's support of Israel, which has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians so far in its war against Hamas in Gaza, on December 8, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Protesters in Los Angeles denounce the Biden administration's support of Israel.

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