Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said it carried out strikes Thursday morning targeting a U.S. air base in response to early U.S. attacks against the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. The IRGC said in a statement posted on its official news outlet Sepah News that a U.S. air b
President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, will pay an official visit to India from May 30 to June 3 at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He will be accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising several Cabinet Ministers, senior officials and
The United Nations aims to reduce and abolish senior leadership positions over the next two years as part of its reforms, its Secretary-General said on Thursday, as he seeks to streamline the 80-year-old institution which some consider top-heavy. Antonio Guterres, whose 10 years as UN chief draw t
Ukraine will buy 20 new Gripen fighter jets and Sweden will donate 16 of an older model next year, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a joint press conference on Thursday. The two leaders had signed a letter of intent last year paving the way
An Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Thursday, the first strike to hit near Beirut in weeks amid a ceasefire that has failed to halt fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in south Lebanon. The Israeli military said it had condu
