Australia formally embarked Monday on a hotly-contested program to equip its navy with nuclear-powered submarines in a new defense alliance with Britain and the United States. Defense Minister Peter Dutton joined US and British diplomats in signing an agreement allowing the exchange of sensitive “naval nuclear propulsion information” between their ...
Russia’s military has begun patrolling a demarcation line between zones controlled by the US-led coalition’s forces in eastern Syria, the TASS news agency cited Moscow as saying on Monday. “It’s the boundary that divides the territory controlled by the international anti-terrorist coalition, the ‘East’ zone, and the ‘West’ zone controlled ...