Nigeria is suffering multiple economic, political and security issues. Inflation is at historically high levels. New president Bola Tinubu took office in May 2023 and promptly implemented some of his ...

An F-16 Fighting Falcon engine runs at full afterburner during testing at Misawa Air Base, Japan, Sept. 18, 2024. Engines are ...

The current surge in retirements of experienced maintainers and a dearth of new air force recruits has left military aviation units with a growing shortage of both veteran and recently trained ...

Additionally, legislative reforms were introduced in September to address judicial independence and transparency, reflecting the government's commitment to strengthening democratic institutions.

A T-45C Goshawk training aircraft assigned to Training Squadron (VT) 9 launches from the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class ...

Both China and Russia have long histories of corruption. These two countries sometimes managed to use the corruption to sustain economic growth rather than stifle it. Governments, usually monarchies, ...

South Korea is, on a per-capita basis, twenty times more prosperous than North Koreans and that’s because the south has a free market economy and a democracy. Socialist North Korea is run by a ...

U.S. Army artillerymen with 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 25th Division Artillery, 25th Infantry Division, ...

Inside Afghanistan the Taliban promised not to harm the 800 kilometer long Afghan portion of the pipeline. This assurance turned out to be the opening round of negotiations about how much the Taliban ...

U.S. Army Maj. Wayland Griffin and Spc. Salim Hercules with Headquarters Company, 3rd battalion 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st ...

September 25, 2024: Iraq remains a war zone, although not as violent as in the past. The main source of violence is Iran as well as Islamic terrorist groups that continue operating in the more remote ...

The fighting persisted into 2024 because the main participants, like Russia, Turkey, Iran, the Assad government and several remaining rebel factions cannot agree on how to deal with the loose ends.