A humanitarian crisis is worsening in northeastern Mali where armed groups linked to Islamic State have besieged towns leaving residents including some 80,000 children vulnerable to disease and malnutrition.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the latest escalation of tensions between both countries over the Israel-Hamas war.

The Anaconda Plan was a critical strategy the Union employed to cut off the supply chains to the South that would remain in place until 1865.

Japan, the United States and Australia are in the final phases of preparation to sign a document on a deal to promote joint research and development in the defense field at Thursday’s trilateral defense ministers meeting in Hawaii, a senior U.S. Defense Department official told The Yomiuri Shimbun and other media on Tuesday.

Volunteer searchers say they’ve found a clandestine crematorium on the edge of Mexico City, the first time in recent memory that anyone claimed to have found such a body disposal site in the capital.

The Navy said it will repair the USS Boxer at Naval Station San Diego and might be able to get the vessel to resume its deployment to the Indo-Pacific as early as this summer.

Former President Donald Trump questioned whether pro-Palestinian demonstrators who seized and barricaded a campus building, vandalizing it in the process, would be treated the same way as the January 6, 2021, Capitol rioters. “Let’s see how that all works out,” he said.

Navy veteran David E. Bulterman’s time on Earth ended Sunday, at the age of 83, 14 hours after returning home to Samaritan Summit Village from his Honor Flight.

The commander of U.S. Africa Command says the U.S. military plans to return to Chad for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there. In April, the U.S. said it was pulling its troops from Chad, an announcement which followed Niger’s decision to order all U.S. troops out of its country.

The U.S. airman convicted in a sprawling leak of classified government secrets that revealed sensitive intelligence about America’s allies and adversaries will face military criminal proceedings later this month, Air Force officials said Wednesday.