Zelenskky resists US pressure to draft 18-year-olds to solve Ukraine's soldier shortage

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Deputy Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ihor Zhovkva
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he will not lower the conscription age.

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How world leaders and countries are reacting to Assad being toppled in Syria

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Syrians light fireworks in the Netherlands as they celebrate the fall of the Assad regime in Syria on December 8.
Syrians around the world celebrated as news of Assad's fall broke.

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Syrians celebrate around the world, world readers react, as rebels topple Assad

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Syrians wave flags on the street in Berlin.
Syrians in Berlin celebrate news that rebels had toppled Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

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The US military struck 75 ISIS targets in Syria as Assad's government fell

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An F-15 flies through the air.
The US military launched strikes against targets inside Syria as rebels toppled Syrian leader Bashar Assad.

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What we know about Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the rebel group that led the offensive to oust Syria's leader

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Abu Mohammed al-Golani speaking at an unknown location in a still image from 2016.
An image of HTS leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani speaking at an unknown location in 2016.

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19 unforgettable images from the Pearl Harbor attack 83 years ago

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USS West Virginia pearl harbor
The USS West Virginia burns in Pearl Harbor.

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Fighting in Ukraine is giving rise to a new kind of drone warfare: hit-to-kill intercepts

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This still image captures a Ukrainian FPV drone right before it strikes a Russian Lancet drone.
 

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China's special forces are untested. Success in a Taiwan invasion could depend on them.

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Elite units like the Chinese People's Armed Police are likely to play key roles should China ever decide to invade Taiwan.
 

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Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers may finally find purpose as hypersonic missile shooters

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Sailors walk past USS Zumwalt.
The Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers have struggled to find an adequate purpose, but are now being readied to carry hypersonic missiles still in development.

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The Pentagon knows it's got a drone problem. Here's what it's doing about it.

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A contractor hand-launches a drone at a counter-UAV training site in California in January 2020.
A contractor hand-launches a drone at a counter-UAV training site in California in January 2020.

US Army photo by PFC Gower Liu, 11th ACR Public Affairs

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